New mural painted in memory of LA's famed mountain lion
An artist has devoted a sweeping new street mural to the memory of one of Los Angelesโ most famous residents: P-22, the celebrated mountain lion who lived in the city and was recently euthanized amid worsening health and injuries likely caused by a car.
Film Academy Museum completes pre-fundraising goal
After 8 years and 13,000 donors including the likes of Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has reached and exceeded its pre-fundraising goal. Academy Museum director and president Bill Kramer said Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, that the new museum has raised $388 million. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)It took eight years and 13,000 donors including the likes of Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg, but the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has reached and exceeded its pre-fundraising goal. Academy Museum director and president Bill Kramer said Friday that the new museum has raised $388 million. Located in Los Angeles at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, the Academy Museum is set to open on April 30, five days after the 93rd Academy Awards.
Park Police officers indicted in shooting of unarmed driver
FAIRFAX, Va. โ Two U.S. Park Police officers were indicted Thursday on manslaughter charges in the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed motorist who led officers on a stop-and-go chase outside Washington, capping nearly three years of inquiry into a case that caused an outcry over concerns of excessive force. With these charges we are reminded that, at least here in Fairfax County, Officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard are not above the law. Federal prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges against the officers last year, saying their actions did not rise to the level of criminality. He anticipates that the officers will seek to have the case removed to federal court because Amaya and Vinyard are federal officers. It shows the car driven by Ghaisar stopping twice during the chase, and officers approaching the car with guns drawn.
Virginia lieutenant governor enters race for governor
FAIRFAX, Va. โ Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax formally kicked off his campaign for governor Saturday, a year after facing two allegations of sexual assault. Fairfax delivered a campaign speech at the Old Court House in Fairfax in northern Virginia. In February 2019, Fairfax faced calls for his resignation from fellow Democrats after two women publicly accused him of sexual assault. Fairfax has denied the allegations and accused the women of being part of a โsmear campaignโ to end his political career. Fairfax was elected Virginia's lieutenant governor in 2017.
Virginia lawmakers push to expand police decertification law
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2016, file photo, Del. Marcus Simon D-Fairfax, speaks during a meeting of the Privileges and Elections subcommittee at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. A bill making its way through the House would require police chiefs to notify the Criminal Justice Services Board or a civilian review panel if an officer has received three complaints of excessive force in the previous five years. Simon, the bill's chief sponsor, said three complaints would not automatically trigger a decertification hearing, but would act as an "early warning system" to detect a pattern that requires further investigation and could lead to decertification. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Check out the 3 top spots in Jacksonville's Fairfax neighborhood
Get to know this Jacksonville neighborhood by browsing its most popular local businesses, from a a bookstore to a garden and home decor shop. Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top places to visit in Fairfax, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of neighborhood businesses. Located at 4551 Roosevelt Blvd., it's the highest-rated business in the neighborhood, boasting 4.5 stars out of 102 reviews on Yelp. Philips Garden Store & FurniturePHOTO: ira g./YELPAnd then there's Philips Garden Store & Furniture, a local favorite with five stars out of 10 reviews. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor.
Police: Jacksonville man shoots intruder found inside home
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man shot an armed intruder Thursday after coming home to find her waiting inside his residence, authorities said. The shooting happened about 10:30 a.m. at a home on Oleander Street in the citys Fairfax neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office. By the time officers arrived, the woman was being treated by paramedics for a gunshot wound to the arm. She was later transported to UF Health Jacksonville. The homeowner told police he had just gotten home when he looked through the front window and saw a woman he didnt recognize inside with one of his guns.
Missing Virginia firefighter is also talented dancer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - For almost a week we've known of Justin Walker as a Fairfax, Virginia, firefighter who went out fishing last Friday with his friend and Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department paramedic Brian McCluney. For the last six days, authorities and volunteers have scoured coastal waters from Central Florida to North Carolina looking for them. News4Jax has learned that Walker was also a professional contemporary dancer with the Demetrius Klein Dance Company and obtained video of one of his performances in 2016. Father won't you carry meFor the oceans wideFather won't you carry meFor my boat is so small. "Its a way to also connect.McCluneys wife, Stephanie, previously danced for the same company in West Palm Beach.
Residents concerned thieves are targeting their cars
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Residents in the Avondale, Fairfax and Riverside neighborhoods said Wednesday they're being targeted in the middle of night by people trying to break into cars. Barbara Hitell, a Fairfax resident, said she got surveillance footage of two men outside her home. "Two guys creeping across my front lawn, running over to my cars. Each of them walked up to one of the cars ... then they creep over the next house -- they were hitting every house on the street," Hitell said. She said her surveillance cameras have twice caught people targeting her cars within two weeks.
On this day: June 28
2010: U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., the longest-serving senator in the nation's history, dies in Fairfax, Virginia, at age 92. Byrd, who was born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1917, served as a U.S. representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. senator from 1959 to 2010. Besides being the longest-serving senator at the time of his death, he was also the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress, but the latter record was surpassed by U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., in June 2013. Hide Caption