<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Alexandria</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/alexandria?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><description>Alexandria</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Sheriff Candidates Setting Out Early]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12601-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12601-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One thing is certain about the sheriff's race in Alexandria: Come Election Day in November, incumbent James H. Dunning's name will not appear on the ballot, as it has every four years since 1985.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Pr. William Coordinator Plans Outreach on Cleanup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12603-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12603-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This week, Michelle Casciato will start her work as an exterior decorator of sorts for Prince William County homeowners.]]></description><author> Nikita Stewart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condolences  Pour In for Va.  Crash Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When they heard about Monday's fatal school bus crash in Arlington, the students  --  from John Adams and James K. Polk elementary schools  --  wanted to help.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commuter Consumer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11169-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11169-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The daily ride has given rise to audio books, the travel mug and a 7-Eleven Inc. trademark, Dashboard Dining. The national motto has become grab and go, and legions of businesses work feverishly to fill a near-sacred space: the cup holder.]]></description><author> Kathy Lally</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moussaoui Pleads Guilty In Terror Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9271-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9271-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty to taking part in a broad al Qaeda conspiracy that resulted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, admitting that Osama bin Laden personally instructed him to fly an airplane into the White House.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gathering Aims to Forge Tysons Vision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10721-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10721-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The campaign to transform Tysons Corner from a sprawling suburban crossroads into a more traditional urban center began in earnest yesterday, as more than 200 Northern Virginia business and civic leaders convened to discuss how best to reshape the commercial hub.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexandria Man, Dog Killed Crossing Street]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10719-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10719-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michael Finucan was a cautious man, his wife said, not one to try to cross a busy, dimly lighted street in the pouring rain. So it baffles her that he did just that early yesterday while walking the family's dog.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions Linger on Moussaoui's Role in 9/11]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10300-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10300-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Zacarias Moussaoui may be the first defendant convicted in U.S. courts in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but his guilty plea yesterday did little to answer the biggest remaining riddle in the case: Was Moussaoui supposed to be one of the hijackers that day?]]></description><author> Dan Eggen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Mayor Named Athletic Director]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10766-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10766-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former Alexandria mayor Kerry J. Donley was appointed athletic director for the Alexandria City Public Schools, following a day of confusion about his status and an emergency School Board meeting last night.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mix of Ordinary, Drama at Courthouse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10404-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10404-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Near the soaring figure of blind Justice, her arms reaching out toward rows of television vans and satellite dishes, a nuclear materials detector had been installed yesterday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria  --  a white arch fitted with a black box and wires.]]></description><author> Stephanie McCrummen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Pleads Guilty in Lawyer's Abduction]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10282-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10282-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 38-year-old Alexandria man pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in the Dec. 7 abduction of a lawyer who was dragged from his home at gunpoint and taken to a freshly dug grave as part of a plot to force him to drop a lawsuit.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[PBS Scrutiny Raises Political Antennas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8067-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8067-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some observers say PBS is being forced to toe a more conservative line in its programming by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.]]></description><author> Paul Farhi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2nd Child Dies After Bus Crash in N.Va.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6263-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6263-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Monday's school bus crash in Arlington claimed its second life Wednesday night, a 7-year-old boy who died after being gravely injured in the collision with a trash hauler, authorities said.]]></description><author> Leef Smith  and Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picking a School Is a Multiple-Choice Question]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area parents enjoy an increasing choice of schools for their children. There are regular public schools, magnet public schools, charter public schools and, for parents with enough money, private schools, some faith-oriented and some not.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity Has Its Price for Home Buyers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3545-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3545-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Competition is so fierce for houses in Arlington neighborhoods near Metro stops that getting 10 to 30 offers on a property is common, according to Walt Babic, a real estate agent who has sold houses in the area for 33 years.]]></description><author> Barbara Ruben</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suburbs With a Sense of Place and Purpose]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5511-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5511-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ralph Rosenbaum chose to live in Old Town Alexandria because there was just something about the feel of the place:  the narrow streets, the town square, the brick and clapboard rowhouses pleasantly askew with age. And everywhere, there was a sense of history, as if the 18th-century town slept easily with the ghosts of its past.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moussaoui Scheduled to Offer Guilty Plea]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4642-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4642-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Zacarias Moussaoui is scheduled to stand before a judge Thursday and admit his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, federal court officials say.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Home Buyers, a Lesson in the Price of Popularity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1191-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1191-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Covet a cute 1940s brick Cape Cod house in Bethesda with loads of original detail, from crown molding to built-in shelves to crystal doorknobs? Plan to pony up at least $500,000. But move 13 miles east to University Park, and a nearly identical solidly built Cape may cost as much as $150,000 less.]]></description><author> Barbara Ruben</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge, Lawyers Confer  On Plea by Moussaoui]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3066-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3066-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The judge overseeing the case of Zacarias Moussaoui held a closed hearing yesterday to discuss details of a possible guilty plea from the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, sources familiar with the case said.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serendipity, Captured in Family Snapshots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2457-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2457-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/alexandria</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In an episode of true faith, blind luck, dogged professionalism, the miracle of technology, duty, the interconnectedness of humankind, or, if you like, the enduring mystery of the universe, a small, yellow photo album was returned to its owner yesterday, nearly seven years after she lost it on the streets of Alexandria.]]></description><author> Stephanie McCrummen</author></item></channel></rss>
