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I-95 Lanes to Close as Ramp Moves
Virginia transportation officials said yesterday that the two right northbound lanes of Interstate 95 will be closed tomorrow night from the Franconia-Springfield Parkway to the ramp to the outer loop of the Capital Beltway.
The lanes will be closed until Friday morning so the I-95 ramp that feeds traffic onto the outer loop can be shifted 1,200 feet south to make way for bridges that are part of the Springfield interchange project.
Fairfax Traveler's Charges Dropped
Federal prosecutors in Hawaii have dropped a charge filed against a Fairfax County man accused of trying to board an airplane with a blade hidden in one of his shoes, the man's attorney said.
Randall Rustick, 33, was charged with trying to board an aircraft with a concealed weapon after he was arrested Dec. 21 at Honolulu International Airport.
Rustick didn't know the three-inch blade was in his shoe and cooperated with prosecutors and the FBI, defense attorney Howard Luke said. Luke said the blade could have been left in the shoe when it was resoled.
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Victim Identified as Woodbridge Man
A man who was fatally shot while sitting in a parked Corvette in South Arlington on Monday night was identified yesterday as Jose Claudio Hernandez Araniva, 24, of Woodbridge. Arlington police said two assailants remained at large.
Araniva was sitting in his car in the 1700 block of South Edgewood Street, in the Nauck neighborhood, shortly before 8 p.m. Police believe that two men dressed in black approached the car and that one fired a shotgun, hitting Araniva in the shoulder and neck. Araniva drove about three blocks before crashing through a picket fence into the front yard of a home in the 1400 block of South Walter Reed Drive. He died about 10:20 p.m. at a hospital.
MARYLAND
Body Found at Dickerson Power Plant
A man's body was found in the coal pit of a Dickerson power plant yesterday after coal was unloaded from a train, Montgomery County police said.
The man had not been identified last night, and police released no details concerning how he might have died. The body was discovered about 5:30 p.m. by an employee of the Dickerson Generating Plant at 21200 Martinsburg Rd.
Muslim Students Seek Exam Changes
Several Muslim students protested Montgomery County's final exam schedule yesterday, saying it interferes with a religious holiday.
Zainab El Radi, a senior at Gaithersburg High School and a member of its Muslim Student Association, said that her anatomy and physiology exam overlaps with the start of Eid ul-Adha, or the Festival of the Sacrifice, which begins in two weeks. She and two other Muslim students asked the county school board at its regular meeting to reconsider the schedule.
