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Bruce Shuttleworth, a resident of Arlington, announced today that he is a Democratic candidate for Virginia’s eighth District Congressional seat, which is held by Jim Moran.

Today, as Republicans in a Virginia State Senate committee voted to codify and expand the ability of state funded agencies to discriminate, Senator Adam Ebbin (D- Alexandria) stood up for adoption equality.

The Alexandria School Board unanimously approved a $357.8 million 2013-22 Capital Improvement Program budget last night. The budget includes $24 million in fiscal year 2013.

Today, on the Senate Floor, Senator Chap Petersen attacked Senate Republicans for supporting legislation designed to impose "waiting periods" before Virginians can exercise their constitutional right to vote by receiving an absentee ballot.

A 70-year-old Burke-area woman answered her phone this week and the caller told the woman she’d won 3.5 million dollars and a brand new Mercedes. But there was a catch. The woman was instructed to purchase Green Dot payment cards and provide the caller with the account numbers.

George Washington Birthday Parade and Weekend Festivities VisitAlexandriaVA.com WashingtonBirthday.net/Events 703-746-3301 Largest parade in the country celebrating the 280th anniversary of the birth of the nation’s first president takes place on Washington’s Birthday holiday, Monday, February 20, 1 to 3 p.m. in Old Town Alexandria. Part of a weekend of events that includes the Birthnight Banquet & Ball and a Madeira Wine Tasting at Gadsby’s Tavern, an historic reenactment at Fort Ward Park, a 10-K race, a 1-mile race just before the parade, plus free open houses at historic attractions on parade day.

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) re-introduced legislation yesterday to stop technologies that are developed with the support of U.S. taxpayers from being given away to China or other countries.

The Prince Georges County, Maryland, police arrested Ivan Newman, 20, from Waldorf, yesterday, and charged him with kidnapping, murder and robbery, in the death of Alexandria community activist Lenny Harris. Newman is the second man arrested and charged in this case and police are looking for additional suspects.

Family and friends will say a final good-by to Alexandria activist Lenny Harris on Monday, Feb. 6. The funeral will be held at the Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church, 610 Rhode Island Avenue, N. E. Washington, DC, 20002.

Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that the Commonwealth Transportation Board sold more than $124 million in refunding bonds at a true interest cost of 1.38 percent, saving $25.8 million over the next 16 years.