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Metro access granted to monitors
Metro Center station. (Post)
Independent monitors who had been barred by Metro from observing safety procedures on live subway tracks are scheduled to perform those checks Wednesday.
 John Kelly's Washington You might call the four beaded necklaces around Carsten Connolly's neck hard-earned battlefield decorations. "Each bead is on there for each treatment I've gone through," explains Carsten, who as a kindergartner embarked on a successful 3 1/2 -year fight against leukemia at Children's National Medical Center. (John Kelly/the Washington Post)
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Syndicate This PageBowing to an outpouring of protests from residents, officials reverse a week-old rule that had banned public displays, including Nativity scenes and Christmas trees, at the county courthouse.
Three yoga instructors ask a federal judge to halt a state plan to regulate yoga instructor training. The Old Dominion, they say, has stretched too far into an ancient practice.
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Exercise gifts (By Vicky Hallett, December 3, 2009)
Teams searching for missing Virginia pilot (Post, December 1, 2009; 11:23 AM)
Body of missing Virginia paratrooper found in Afghanistan (Post, December 1, 2009; 6:47 AM)
With air of nostalgia, Va. enacts smoking ban: Ban takes effect Tuesday in state where tobacco once was king (Post, December 1, 2009)
Funeral homes may face stricter rules: Complaints about handling of remains prompt proposed rules (Post, December 1, 2009)
Salahi e-mails show couple asked Defense official about attending state dinner: Couple asked Defense official for entrée to state dinner via e-mail (Post, December 1, 2009)
local digest: Local Digest (Post, December 1, 2009)
Not so jolly: Va. town bans holiday displays at courthouse: New policy bans all decorations on courthouse lawn (Post, December 1, 2009)
Police identify teen suspects in burglary ring in Manassas, Va. (Post, December 1, 2009)
World AIDS Day at GMU (Post, December 1, 2009)
Teen burglary ring in Manassas identified (Post, November 30, 2009; 4:29 PM)
Metro train smashes into another at rail yard: 3 employees hurt; two damaged cars were from older series (Post, November 30, 2009)
Test-driving new traffic circles (Post, November 30, 2009)
FACE TIME: FACE TIME (Post, November 30, 2009)
Bankruptcies: Bankruptcies (Post, November 30, 2009)
At Quantico: The measure of success: At Quantico, fired-up Marine recruits struggle to meet expectations that seem impossibly high (Post, November 30, 2009)
local digest: Regional news briefs (Post, November 30, 2009)
Jay Mathews: Five strikes against an education writer (Post, November 30, 2009)
Va. investigates legality of access to voter list: Giving data to nonprofit might have been illegal, state election chief says (Post, October 30, 2009)
Deeds's Trip Targets Disaffected in N.Va.: Obama's Support Could Play Role (Post, October 17, 2009)
Deeds Trailing McDonnell in Money on Hand By $1.8 Million (Post, October 16, 2009)
GOP Fervor Mounts As McDonnell Leads: Deeds Fans Less-Excited, Poll Shows (Post, October 10, 2009)
How They Voted on God, Guns And Gays: Deeds, McDonnell on Schools, Taxes, Too (Post, September 27, 2009)
Schools News
The best and brightest take a detour: Recession-wary honor students are using community college as door to elite schools (Post, November 30, 2009)
Alternative test may inflate score gains: 'Portfolio' exams spread in Va.
'How do you know we are closing the . . . gap?' (Post, November 19, 2009)
Students may face an uphill climb: To help cut busing costs, Fairfax officials suggest getting more kids to walk to school (Post, November 18, 2009)
Budget woes frustrate foreign language goals: In Fairfax schools, the debate becomes fundamentals vs. frills (Post, November 17, 2009)
volunteeropportunities: volunteeropportunities (Post, November 12, 2009)
Crime News
Va. targets funeral homes' standards: Complaints about handling of remains prompt proposed rules (Post, December 1, 2009)
Teen burglary ring in Manassas identified (Post, November 30, 2009; 4:29 PM)
3 men indicted in Md. man's death: Suspects in robbery and shooting in July have ties to MS-13 (Post, November 26, 2009)
Sketch of Alexandria robbery suspect released (Post, November 25, 2009; 2:04 PM)
A D.C. MYSTERY: In wake of woman's disappearance, her family sees a pattern of clues (Post, November 25, 2009)
Tysons Corner Development
Drivers are looking for the exit on I-95 (By Robert Thomson, November 12, 2009)
Tysons will need $15 billion -- 'with a B': Money crucial for roads and public transit, Fairfax planners say (Post, October 30, 2009)
18 Feet Done, Many More to Go: Building a Metrorail Tunnel at Tysons Corner Takes Brute Force Applied With a Deft Touch (Post, October 18, 2009)
30,000 Stimulus Jobs, Many in D.C. Area, Reported (Post, October 16, 2009)
Economy Slows Establishment of Tax District: Move Would Help Fund Metro Extension to Dulles (Post, October 8, 2009)
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