Nobody moved to southern Fairfax County 30 years ago for the neighborhood, because there was no neighborhood. People bought houses on the fringes of horse farms to get away from everything.

RICHMOND -- A decade ago, Virginia Republicans would joke that their easiest path to victory on Election Day was getting the Democrats to have President Bill Clinton campaign for them.

The sign went up Sunday evening, bold black letters against the stark white background of the marquee at the Colony South Hotel & Conference Center in Clinton: "Country First. McCain/Palin."

Most candidates in the race for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council are shooting for second place Nov. 4.

The airport isn't a very happy place right now -- grim-faced business travelers trudge in from another gloom-and-doom meeting, families fret over fares, airline workers seem jumpy and glum. So it shouldn't have been surprising that a crowd of total strangers gathered around Angie Scurlock at the ...

Dear Dr. Gridlock : Thank you for publishing the map of the bus stops around the Silver Spring Metro showing their new location in response to reconstruction of the station. [Commuter Page, Sept. 28] To get to buses, many people have to walk four to six blocks up a fairly steep hill. Another map...

Metro Track Work Metro is working on the Red and Orange lines this weekend, which could add 20 to 25 minutes to travel times through the construction zones. On the Red Line, trains are sharing a track between Takoma and Silver Spring from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. today while crews stabilize the other track...

The 53 men and women wrongly classified by the Maryland State Police as terrorists include two Catholic nuns, a Democratic candidate for Congress, a man who campaigns against military recruiting at high schools and one person who has never set foot in the state.

CHAIN BRIDGE RD., 4300 block, 6:30 a.m. Sept. 23. A large German shepherd kept triggering the automatic door of an emergency room and entering. A police officer lured the dog into his vehicle using a plastic bottle as a chew toy and took the dog to the city's shelter. The dog's owner picked him up...

I n 1945, I was invited by a GI who was recuperating from wounds at Walter Reed Hospital to attend one of Evalyn Walsh McLean's parties in Friendship Heights. Was this her home? If so, is it still standing and open to the public or is it now a shopping mall? All the GI dates at these parties were...

A Reston man died yesterday when he apparently lost control of his car on Sunrise Valley Drive and crashed in Reston, Fairfax County police said.

It was simple math, really: Gleaming million-dollar yachts for sale -- including one skippered by President John F. Kennedy -- combined with one of the worst weeks in Wall Street history made for a lot more daydreaming than usual yesterday at the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis.

The Montgomery County Council signed off on a pair of land-use measures designed to open one of Live Nation's Fillmore rock clubs in a vacant stretch of downtown Silver Spring by 2011. The two votes were the last major hurdles for the controversial plan and a victory for County Executive Isiah...

Former Maryland State Police superintendent Thomas E. Hutchins won national recognition last week -- but not the kind one typically brags about.

Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 5-0-1 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 7-7-5-3

"Think globally. Act locally." Okay, so it's a mere bumper-sticker cliche for many people, but not for Dean R. Hoge, a renowned sociologist of religion and retired Catholic University professor who died of cancer Sept. 13 at age 71. Dr. Hoge -- the name rhymes with stogie -- personified the...

Jörg Haider, a divisive Austrian political figure who rose to prominence as the leader of a far-right movement that was often seen as sympathetic to the country's shadowy Nazi past, died Oct. 11 in a car accident near the southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt. He was 58.

James E. Barrett, 85, a retired insurance company executive who held national leadership positions with the USO and other charitable organizations, died Oct. 5 of congestive heart failure at his home in Reston.

Two people were robbed at gunpoint in separate incidents Friday night in a quiet part of upper Northwest Washington. In a third incident, a suspect was arrested in the U Street corridor after another street robbery, D.C. police said.

Charles Thomas Fahy, 78, a Benedictine monk who spent most of his career teaching at St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, died Oct. 6 in a traffic accident in East Earl Township, Pa. He lived in Philadelphia.

Orrin Rankin Magill Jr., 87, the former director of the CIA's East Asia Pacific region who later married hundreds of Fairfax County couples as a court-appointed civil celebrant, died of prostate cancer Sept. 23 at his home in McLean.

Elaine M. Daniels, 69, director of the Montgomery County Public Schools refugee training program in the 1980s and early 1990s, died of a pulmonary embolism Oct. 10 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford, Mass.