Two West End restaurants that were forced to close for more than a month after a delivery truck driver hit a power line behind the Shoppes at Foxchase are reopening on Thursday (Oct. 1).
ALXnow confirmed that La Casa Restaurant (4551 Duke Street) and Hong Kong Express (4545 Duke Street) will reopen with their normal operating hours. No other businesses were affected.
Virginia State Police have released more details on Monday morning’s (Sept. 28) fatal crash that killed three teenagers and injured a fourth in a stolen vehicle.
According to state police, the vehicle was stolen two days before (Sept. 26) in Prince George’s County, Md. The stolen vehicle was spotted in the area of Stevenson Avenue and S. Walker Street in Alexandria’s West End around 12:45 a.m. Monday, and the driver sped onto northbound Interstate 395 when a state trooper tried to make a traffic stop. The driver lost control at the exit ramp for the Shirlington Road exit, causing the vehicle to strike a jersey wall.
Two restaurants are still temporarily closed and without power since a delivery truck driver hit a power line behind the Shoppes at Foxchase on Tuesday night, Aug. 25.
That’s more than three weeks ago. The fire that destroyed a pickup truck, two dumpsters and fencing has also shuttered La Casa Restaurant (4551 Duke Street) and Hong Kong Express (4545 Duke Street).
A 21-year-old Alexandria man is under arrest for allegedly stabbing a man early Tuesday morning (Sept. 15) outside a convenience store in the city’s Arlandria neighborhood.
Jelzon Garcia Gonzales was arrested in the 7000 block of Columbia Pike in Annandale after the Alexandria Police Department received “multiple tips from the community” and a photo of the suspect from a nearby business, APD announced today (Sept. 16). He was charged with aggravated malicious wounding and is being held without bond.
A rollover crash in Potomac Yard sent two people to the hospital Sunday (Sept. 13), according to the Alexandria Police Department.
Police and fire units responded around 3:12 p.m. to Richmond Highway and E. Reed Avenue. An APD spokesperson told ALXnow two vehicles were involved.
A juvenile pedestrian was struck in the Arlandria neighborhood Monday afternoon, leading to a police and fire response.
The crash was reported around 3:49 p.m. at Mount Vernon Avenue and Russell Road.
A driver was reportedly injured in a two-vehicle crash on southbound Interstate 395 near the Duke Street/Little River Turnpike exit Wednesday afternoon.
The crash between a black SUV and a tan Toyota sedan was reported just after 3:45 p.m. Alexandria police and fire responders cut off traffic in the third and fourth lanes near the righthand shoulder of the roadway. The crash occurred just before exit 3 on I-395.
A 68-year-old Fredericksburg man was found guilty today (Tuesday) of reckless driving for causing a five-vehicle crash that killed a 69-year-old Massachusetts woman on Interstate 495 in Alexandria on Nov. 5, 2024.
In a two-day bench trial, Circuit Court Judge Katie Uston found Lee Allen MacKall guilty of reckless driving, and sentenced him to a year in prison, all suspended on the condition of his uniform good behavior. MacKall tearfully apologized to the family and friends of the victim, Lauren Johnson-Lavender, who died at the scene.
A contentious proposal to remove on-street parking between the 400 and 800 blocks of Russell Road is heading to Alexandria’s Traffic and Parking Board tonight (Monday).
The recommendations would remove on-street parking in the area around Naomi L. Brooks Elementary School (600 Russell Road) and create “painted curb extensions, high-visibility crosswalk markings, and improved ADA curb ramps at six intersections on Russell Road, and a new pedestrian crossing at West Chapman Street.”
An Alexandria man faces a felony hit-and-run charge after allegedly fleeing the scene of a crash in the city’s Fairlington neighborhood.
The Alexandria Police Department responded to the intersection of N. Quaker Lane and Fern Street around 3:45 p.m. on June 6, for the report of a crash involving a Toyota Tacoma and a Honda CR-V. The driver of the Honda suffered a minor hand injury and her car was totaled.
A man was stabbed in the abdomen and neck in Arlandria early Saturday morning (June 13) after an apparent hit-and-run, according to the Alexandria Police Department.
The 20-year-old victim called 911 around 12:45 a.m. to report that he was stabbed by the driver of a white Chevrolet cargo van in the 800 block of W. Glebe Road, and that the driver fled the scene. The victim told police the suspect’s Virginia license plate number, and a license plate reader tracked the van nearly four miles away in the 4800 block of Kenmore Avenue in the city’s West End.
