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Arlington Asks Residents to be ‘Secret Santa’ 11/14/2013 03:05pm • Arlington County is asking residents to donate gift cards to help needy families and children in foster care for the holidays. The gift cards, distributed by the county’s Department of Human Services, will help foster children, people with disability and low-income buy gifts or food for the ho Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 11/13/2013 08:27am • Kissing plays an important role in selecting relationships Download Dr. Drew, One Minute Clinic Read the Oxford University study: Kissing helps us find the right partner - and keep them 9:10 p.m. - Jessica Patel, personal finance analyst at Bankrate Download APS Considers Limiting Teacher Gifts 10/28/2013 10:00am • Apples for the teacher will be acceptable under a new gift policy for Arlington Public Schools, as long as it’s fruit and not electronics. APS is circulating a proposed change to its gift policy for employees that would limit the amount of gifts educators can receive to $50. The School Board w The big 'If': Can the Redskins rebound? 09/23/2013 04:04pm • Rob Woodfork, wtop.com WASHINGTON -- At least it wasn't a blowout, right? It's hard times in Redskins Nation these days. For the third straight week -- and the second time at home against an opponent that went 4-12 last season -- the Redskins were thoroughly outplayed and are reeling at 0-3, a mys Navy Yard shooting victims had long careers there 09/18/2013 11:05am • The Navy Yard Relief Fund will support the victims' families and those injured in the attack. Learn more here. The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A dozen people died in a shooting rampage Monday at the Washington Navy Yard. The shooter also was killed. It was the deadliest attack at a Embattled Va. gov. wraps up 7-day legacy tour in Leesburg 08/15/2013 07:11pm • LEESBURG, Va. - Under fire for the gift and loan scandal, Virginia's embattled governor has been touring the state touting the accomplishments of his administration over the last three and half years. His last day of the tour included stops in Alexandria and Fairfax where he talked about education The Right Note: You Can Ring My Bell 08/15/2013 02:00pm • The Right Note is a weekly opinion column published on Thursdays. The views and opinions expressed in the column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ARLnow.com. Last week, my counterpart on the left wrote at length about Ken Cuccinelli (R) un-ringing a bell. As Peter Special session on ethics reform unlikely in Virginia 08/13/2013 03:34pm • WASHINGTON - The loans and gifts scandal that has engulfed Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, and has had a significant impact on the race to replace him, continues to produce calls for a special session of the General Assembly to address financial disclosure and ethics reforms. But a special session m Peter’s Take: Mr. Cuccinelli, Un-ring That Bell 08/08/2013 01:45pm • Peter’s Take is a weekly opinion column. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ARLnow.com. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell belatedly has promised to return gifts he received from a wealthy Virginia businessman &mdash Va. gov says daughter returned $15K wedding gift 07/31/2013 01:41pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell says one of his daughters has returned the $15,000 check given to her by a major campaign donor and businessman for her wedding two years ago. The governor is under federal and state investigations for the relationship Star Scientific chief execu 2 delegates call for tightening Va. ethics laws 07/30/2013 08:41pm • WASHINGTON - With Gov. Bob McDonnell embroiled in an ethics scandal over gifts he and his family accepted, Virginia lawmakers are talking about how they think rules about gifts to politicians should be strengthened in the commonwealth. "Obviously there are problems in disclosure systems and I t Walk & Ride Challenges Bethesda Companies To Ditch Car Commuting 07/24/2013 12:45pm • A contest to get employees of Bethesda-based companies out of their cars and using other forms of transportation will return this September with a chance to win gift cards to local stores and restaurants. The Walk & Ride Challenge, sponsored and organized by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, fits Concerns about Montgomery Co. school finances aren't new 06/22/2013 02:13am • WASHINGTON - The investigation into possible misuse of student funds at a Montgomery County school continues, but concerns about the financial dealings at Rock Terrace Elementary School apparently aren't new. A memo dated November 2, 2011, shows that Roger Pisha, the Internal Audit Supervisor Chevy Chase's royal rockers band together for charity 06/06/2013 01:48pm • Dana Gooley, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON - It's late Thursday night in Chevy Chase, D.C. Families are quietly going about their business, putting their kids to sleep and getting ready for the next day. But in a garage on the eastern side of the neighborhood, four men are very seriously stud 70 years later, woman reads sweetheart's WWII diary 05/27/2013 01:13pm • By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Before Cpl. Thomas "Cotton" Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the South Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his "last life request" to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved.