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WASHINGTON -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA+' rating to the Industrial Development Authority of Arlington County, VA's $61.99 million lease revenue bon...
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ARLINGTON, Va. - The ghosts of the Washington Capitals' past playoff failures are lurking in the NHL record book, waiting to be resurrected.
The Capitals know they can keep those ghosts in their past, however, by simply finishing off the Rangers in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series. They take a 2-0 lead into this afternoon's Game 3 at Madison Square Garden.
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Police in Arlington County, Va., said they have arrested a Severn man in the 2009 killing of a retired federal worker in the Clarendon area.
Police said Monday that Roger Clark III, 20, and Javon Martin, 24, of Washington have been charged in the killing.
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Who had the shortest commute in the country last year? The folks in Cascade County, Mont., who take 14 minutes on average to get to work. The longest? Residents of New York City's Staten Island - an average of 42 minutes.
What county had the highest concentration of people with graduate degrees? Arlington County, Va., just outside Washington. The lowest? A former "Moonshine Capital of the World": Wilkes County, N.C.
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The program is a project of Arlington County, with sponsorship from the Rosslyn (Va.) BID (Business Improvement District) and programming by Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources. Projects included a bluegrass combo playing for commuters at the city transit center, dancers mingling with customers while performing in the aisles of a local bookstore, and a giant art deco-style seesaw positioned in the lobby between two popular restaurants beckoning businesspeople to play for a few minutes during their lunch break. At the city's transit center, for example, a permanent display space now exhibits art created by school students and community arts groups.
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ARLINGTON, Va. - Jason Arnott has already done a little bit of everything for the Washington Capitals in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the Rangers.
He set up Alex Semin's overtime winner in Game 1, scored a big power-play goal in Game 2 and even helped calm Bruce Boudreau on the bench in Game 4 when the Capitals coach was yelling a little too vehemently at referee Paul Devorski about a third-period tripping penalty against Boyd Gordon.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Center for Immigration Studies Memorandum finds that the Department of Justice annually awards millions of dollars in grants to local governments to compensate for the cost of jailing illegal aliens, even when those governments have policies obstructing immigration law enforcement or encouraging illegal settlement. The report includes a list of the 27 sanctuary jurisdictions receiving grants in 2010.
The grant program, known as the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), doled out a total of $400 million to about 850 cities, counties, and states in 2010. Among them were 27 jurisdictions widely considered to be sanctuary jurisdictions, which together received more than $62.6 million, or 15.6 percent of the total. For exam...