Jared Serre

A Turkish restaurant near Ballston closed due to a kitchen fire yesterday (Monday) but intends to open today. Multiple fire trucks arrived at Istanbul Grill around 1 p.m. yesterday after a reported structure fire at 4617 Wilson Blvd. The blaze began as a stove fire that "spread to the walls," preliminary reports suggest. Firefighters could

A former Washington-Liberty High School coach has been acquitted of two sex crime charges involving a former player. George Porcha, who was the head girls basketball coach at the Arlington school from 2000-03, still faces another trial for similar charges this spring. Following a four-day trial last week, a local jury on Friday found Porcha

An Arlington teen awaiting trial over his alleged role in a 2023 stabbing has been arrested on a robbery charge. Police took Kamron Tartt, 19, into custody in Arlington's Green Valley neighborhood on Feb. 6, shortly after he was identified as a person of interest in a robbery, an ACPD spokesperson told ARLnow. Tartt, whose

The driver of a pickup truck involved in a fatal crash in Ballston last month is still hospitalized, local officials told ARLnow. A criminal investigation into the incident, which killed a 32-year-old doctoral candidate and snarled traffic in Ballston for hours, is still underway, Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti told ARLnow. The name of the 71-year-old

An airport dispatcher admitted to illegally recording surveillance footage showing deceased victims after last month's fatal midair crash, police say. Maryland resident Jonathan Savoy allegedly admitted to a police detective that he captured photos and videos of crash victims being transferred from a first-responder boat to a staging area at Reagan National Airport, according to

The 18-year-old driver in a crash that claimed the life of a 19-year-old in October has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Brooks Thurston Bare admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana before the crash in Tara-Leeway Heights that killed Nicholas Rados in the early morning hours of Oct. 12, according to a plea agreement accepted in

One person is dead and another is fighting for their life after a serious crash Monday afternoon at a Ballston intersection. Traffic camera footage (below) shows a gray pickup truck traveling eastbound on Wilson Blvd before slamming into another vehicle — which had just turned onto Wilson from N. Vermont Street — around 2:40 p.m.

A former Arlington firefighter is among the more than 1,500 people granted pardons under President Donald Trump's sweeping decision yesterday (Monday). Brian Holmes, who was accused of assaulting police officers while attempting to enter the U.S. Capitol in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, falls under a blanket pardon Trump issued shortly after being sworn in

An ex-Marine convicted of rape and multiple murders, including strangling a U.S. Navy petty officer to death in Arlington, has been taken off of death row. Jorge Avila Torrez, 36, is one of 37 federal prisoners who saw their death sentences commuted by President Joe Biden today (Monday). He will continue to serve life without

An Arlington resident and former federal prosecutor is running for Virginia lieutenant governor. Victor Salgado, the fifth declared candidate vying to be the Democratic Party's nominee in November, knows he's a political outsider. But he told ARLnow that possible federal policy changes inspired him to enter the political arena. "We need to respond to some