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A group of 31 Fairfax County Boy Scouts and adults was rescued Saturday afternoon after becoming separated while tubing on West Virginia’s Cacapon River. Troop 1865, comprising 24 children and seven adults, was split among three locations.
At a Fairfax restaurant, a waiter was fired after an alleged racial slur was found written on the button of a customer’s receipt. Crazy Crab manager Rez Choudhury apologized Thursday to the customer and the community.
The recent closures of Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Tysons and Friendship Heights have left landlords with hundreds of thousands of square feet to fill or repurpose. The shutdowns and other department-store closures are also prompting retail experts to reconsider the traditional mall-anchor model.
Virginia schools and students face uncertainty after the U.S. Department of Education moved earlier this month to dissolve an office focused on helping English learners and immigrant students achieve English proficiency and academic success.
Virginia health officials launched a public measles dashboard Thursday as cases increase across the state. The Virginia Department of Health reported 40 cases this year, including a Buckingham County outbreak with 17 confirmed cases.
Weather permitting, overnight lane closures are planned around Franconia Road and the Loisdale Drive, Commerce Street and Frontier Drive interchange on Wednesday, May 27, and Thursday, May 28. Crews will conduct asphalt paving and patching in the eastbound and westbound areas.
A large indoor soccer training center has been proposed for a vacant building on Port Royal Road in Springfield. The Board of Zoning Appeals scheduled a July 22 hearing on the project’s special-permit request.
Actor, musician and veterans advocate Gary Sinise returned to Fort Belvoir on Thursday with his Lt. Dan Band. The visit was part of the Gary Sinise Foundation’s Invincible Spirit Festival, which has now been held 33 times at military medical centers nationwide.
Tuesday’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies, a high near 76 degrees and a 40% chance of precipitation. Calm winds are expected to shift east at about 6 mph. Showers are likely after 2 a.m., with an overnight low near 65 and a 50% chance of rain.