The City of Alexandria has awarded two contracts to local nonprofits to provide services to the homeless. New Hope Housing, Inc., an innovative, award-winning non-profit agency that has provided emergency shelter, transitional and permanent housing in Northern Virginia since 1977, received a contract to operate the Alexandria Community Shelter on Mill Road.

Natosha P. Moore, 26, of Fort Washington, Md., pled guilty today to stealing at least $342,000 from her former employer based in Alexandria, Va.

Since June, new T. C. Williams High School Principal Suzanne Maxey has planned for the 2010-11 school year. With the opening of school less than a week away, she is ready for the students to return and looking forward to transforming the school from a Persistently Lowest Achieving school into a place where students achieve at the highest level and one where pride, school spirit and discipline are core values.

As they pack their bags for their last planned holiday weekend getaway of the summer, Washingtonians are keeping a wary eye on the eye of the hurricane and a tropical storm following in its path. Nearly 790,000 Washingtonians are planning to travel 50 miles or more from home during the Labor Day holiday weekend, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic’s travel forecast.

The T.C. Williams football team enters this season with high hopes. The Titans are coming back from a 5-5 season, and came within one game of making the playoffs for the first time in 20 years. For this reason, optimism is common among coaches and players. However, the team still faces several key questions. Football coach Dennis Randolph was unresponsive to numerous attempts to contact him, but here are the five questions alexandrianews.org would have asked and will be watching for in the upcoming season.

For nearly a year, the Alexandria City Public School system and the Alexandria School Board have been considering a public/private partnership to pay for a new school on the Jefferson-Houston Elementary School site. On June 22, ACPS staff presented the concept to the Alexandria City Council, which directed ACPS to set up a series of community meetings to discuss the matter and provide additional information about the financing. On Sept. 13, the Alexandria School Board will hold the first community meeting to discuss the Jefferson-Houston project.

Matthew A. Kim, 39, of Alexandria, Va., pled guilty today to engaging in mortgage fraud as a loan broker for two local mortgage companies.

Northern Virginia Community College is consistently ranked among the nation’s top community college systems. Recently, the weak economy and NOVA’s relationship with Virginia’s top universities has proved beneficial to the school.

In six days, a college fund on Facebook.com has raised $19,425 for twin 18-year-olds.

Firefighters responded to a report of home heating oil in a residence in the 1100 block of Colonial Avenue. A contractor making a delivery of home heating oil connected to an abandoned fill pipe at the wrong address.