A 52-year-old West Columbia man was arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly firing a gun into a car with three people in it on Aug. 22 at an
teacher and all 10 thousand school employees in loudoun county. today meant the difficult math lesson. lost $50 million in local funding and $22 million overall and we are growing. reporter: loudoun school leaders scrambled to devise a plan to fill the hole in the 2010- 11 budgets. salaries making up 88% of the budget costs, there weren t many options. we could have raised fees for participation in sports and testing and parking fees. we did cut high school summer school but could cut all summer school and could have cut 393 jobs. reporter: he says teachers and other employees didn t want to see that happen. and the budget fixed that included a two-day furlough that would safe $4.4 million became the most tolerable of the undesirable options. we sent out an e-mail with a poll giving them four options as to where they would want their days to be cut. and they took the thanksgiving option. reporter: november 22 and 23rd furlough days will lengthen the thanksgiving b
neighborhood is on edge and more reaction from neighbors coming up at 6:00. jim? frightening close call here. jane watrel live in bristow, virginia. jane, thank you. two people onboard plane that was traveling from maryland to mississippi were killed when the aircraft went down in eastern kentucky. this was a small plane. it went down in a mountainous area in leslie county. a rescuer took a picture of the plane on his cell phone. faa records list the hawker beach craft 58 and as registered to a company in woodbine, maryland, called island trading. a plane on its way to dulles was diverted today because of a bomb threat. the continental express flight from houston was diverted to greensboro, north carolina, after a bomb threat was written on a mirror in the bathroom. the plane did land safely just before 11:00 this morning and law enforcement was waiting for the plane when it arrived. the family of a paramedic killed when a medical helicopter crashed in prince george s
on your ring finger. that is some serious bling right there. the news keeps coming. here is brian now with the news edge at 11:00. we have a few breaking stories. first a police shooting in prince george s county. police say they were following a stolen car when the driver tried to run over an officer. that officer opened fire hitting one of the suspects. no word on the suspect s condition. we do have a crewn the way to the scene. as soon as we get new details and pictures, we ll pass them along. also an attempted robbery that happened with a stabbing at the local mall. this happened in virginia. police say two men tried to rob another guy. he resisted then got stabbed. right now police are still looking for those two suspects. the victim is expected to be okay. a maryland man brutally murdered in his own home. his family tied up by three suspects. the attacks send shock waves through a quae kwet community quiet community. we have that story. reporter: prince george
candles light the way for a community trying to heal after a neighbor was brutally murdered while the life of his family was spared. good evening. have. more on that vigil in a moment. first breaking news. we re starting to see the impact of an earthquake and tsunami that hit the samoas. at least 34 people are dead. the quake with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3 struck around dawn 20 miles below the ocean floor. it triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20-feet high. it swept ashore flattening villages. american samoa s delegate spoke out late this evening. i m sure that in due time, our governor s going to request an official declaration by president obama to declare this a disaster area. the federal emergency management agency and the coast guard are already on their way to assist the people there. meanwhile, several pacific islands issued tsunami warnings. hawaii is under a tsunami watch. now to our other top story, a vigil w held tonight where a man was shot to de