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From Tuesday through Friday, the W&OD Trail will be closed, between Claiborne Parkway and Loudoun County Parkway, as the utility installs a new transmission line, high above the paved and gravel path.
A Texas man who traveled to the Capitol for the Jan. 6 riot attempted to obtain explosives in order to bomb Amazon data centers.
Texas Man Charged With Planning To Blow Up Ashburn Data Center Patch 2 days ago Mark Hand © Shutterstock Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls was arrested Thursday after allegedly plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Ashburn. ASHBURN, VA — A Texas man has been charged with plotting to blow up a data center in Ashburn in an attempt to "kill off about 70 percent" of the internet, according to the Department of Justice. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was arrested on Thursday after allegedly attempting to obtain an explosive device from an unde...
FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack By The FBI arrested a Texas man on Thursday for allegedly planning to "kill of about 70% of the internet" in a bomb attack targeting an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center on Smith Switch Road in Ashburn, Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was charged via criminal complaint on Friday morning for attempting to destroy a building using C-4 plastic explosives he tried to buy from an undercover FBI employee. The FBI got wind of the suspect's plans in January when he revealed his plot on the MyMilitia website using a 'Dionysus' ...