Dave Leval

1 week ago | dcnewsnow.com | Dave Leval

WASHINGTON (DC News Now)–Langston Golf Course is used to hosting a large number of golfers. But this day featured many who have never played a single round. The National Links Trust, NLT, oversees the course and teamed up with Chevron to offer Free Lesson Friday, to help people play the game. “There’s mental benefits. There’s there’s health benefits. There’s professional benefits,” said NLT Executive Director Damian Cosby.

2 weeks ago | dcnewsnow.com | Dave Leval

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (DC News Now) — A former Fairfax County public school teacher has been charged with attacks on a student and fellow teacher. Fairfax County Police arrested Mary Simons, 63, on Monday after police said she turned herself in to them. Simons is accused of the March 28, 2025, attacks at Parklawn Elementary School, where she worked at the time. “Not cool, not cool,” said Steve Barrett, whose granddaughter is a student there.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dave Leval

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (DC News Now) — A former Fairfax County public school teacher has been charged with attacks on a student and fellow teacher. Fairfax County Police arrested Mary Simons, 63, on Monday after police said she turned herself in to them. Simons is accused of the March 28, 2025, attacks at Parklawn Elementary School, where she worked at the time. “Not cool, not cool,” said Steve Barrett, whose granddaughter is a student there.

3 weeks ago | dcnewsnow.com | Dave Leval

ASHBURN, Va. (DC News Now) — Overwhelming grief filled the Harris Teeter parking lot Saturday night, as friends and family remembered Nicolas Mejia. “Nick, you will be missed. And you will always be loved,” said Natalie, his classmate from Riverside High School. Loudon County Sheriff’s deputies found Mejia, 16,shot to death in a car exactly one week earlier, on April 12. Detectives said Mejia had been shot on Hillmont Terrace. But he only made it in a car to the grocery store.

4 weeks ago | dcnewsnow.com | Dave Leval

BOWIE, Md. (DC News Now) — Investigators are working to find the cause of a house fire that claimed the life of a man in Prince George’s County. Prince George’s County Fire and EMS crews arrived on the scene along Elon Drive just after 9 p.m. Tuesday. There, crews could see flames pouring out of second-floor windows and discovered the unidentified male adult in one of those rooms.