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Massachusetts poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" after seeing the landscape from the top of Pike's Peak. Her patriotic anthem is a prayer for national unity.

Bay Street Theater’s 2023 Mainstage season began on a sensational note with the world premiere of Double Helix by Madeline Myers, directed by Scott Schwartz.

A man told police officers they were “f*cking stupid” during a drunken offence which saw him end up in court.

Read an excerpt from "The Demands of Justice," a new book about enslaved Black women who were charged with crimes by their owners.

Four City of Falls Church residents came before the School Board here Tuesday night to make statements in support of their applications seeking appointment to the unexpired term on the board of departing former vice chair Phil Reitinger. The board will vote on the applicants in two weeks on Feb. ...

As mild temperatures are promised for the onset of the New Year at this Saturday night’s Watch Night festivities in downtown Falls Church, expectations for the 2023 year remain ones of cautious optimism. For the City of Falls Church, rising residential real estate values and a pause in the recei ...

Our history expert solves local mysteries: who, what, when, where, why, and why not. Well, sometimes.

Co-curated by Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, ‘In Plain Sight’ at the Wellcome Collection takes a journey back to revolutions in invention, spiritual understandings of vision and the routes to understanding enviroments that develop from visual impairment

Jason Emmel caught a 66-pound, 5-ounce blue catfish with a bow and arrow in Virginia. The fish has been officially recognized as the current Virginia Archery State Record Blue Catfish.

With summer vacation in full swing, classrooms in local schools are sitting empty. But that doesn’t mean that learning has to go on hiatus as well, and for a clear