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ARLnow Daily Update: August 11, 2026 · ARLnow Daily Update

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  It's Tuesday, August 11th. This is the ARL Now Daily Update. A man held at the Arlington County Jail for nearly a year has died.
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  The sheriff's office and ACPD say Tyrone Hines, 62, was pronounced dead Monday at Virginia Hospital Center after an apparent medical emergency in his cell.
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  A deputy responded to an emergency call button just before 8:00 in the morning. Hines was charged last July in an attempted robbery at a Ballston Bank with trial set for October.
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  The state medical examiner will determine the cause of death. More speed cameras are coming to Arlington school zones this school year, though the county has not released the locations yet.
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  Police say a list is coming soon, and residents report new cameras near Tuckahoe and Nottingham Elementary Schools. The cameras run only when school zone beacons are flashing, and a ticket costs $100.
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  Last school year, Arlington's cameras produced nearly 48,000 tickets.
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  Monday evening storms knocked out power to nearly 2,500 Arlington homes and businesses, according to Dominion, with outages in Cherrydale, Maywood, Arlington Mill, and other neighborhoods.
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  A downed tree and wires closed Wilson Boulevard near Bluemont Park. Firefighters answered a run of stuck elevator calls, and a possible lightning strike caused a minor house fire in Lyon Park.
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  Reagan National Airport went into a ground stop with roughly 90-minute departure delays. This sponsored update is from Eli Residential Group.
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  Eli Residential Group is an Arlington-based residential real estate team led by Eli Tucker. Its agents include Carolan Karolewicz, who writes this week's sponsored column.
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  The group says its mission is to guide, educate, and advocate for home buyers and sellers across Arlington and the surrounding communities. You can learn more at eliresidential.com.
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  APS has apologized for pricing errors in the printed fall catalog for Arlington Community Learning, its adult education program.
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  For several classes, the fees listed for Arlington seniors and for non-residents were flipped.
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  Officials said a corrected reprint would have been expensive and might have added confusion, so the program emailed seniors in its database instead.
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  APS says the online catalog and registration system show the correct pricing. The traveler who walked into Arlington last month with three goats is still here, but the goats are not.
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  Jacob Holiday has camped in a median where eastbound Arlington Boulevard meets the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge since at least last Thursday, after Animal Control seized the goats over what it called a legal matter.
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  A county spokesperson says the Human Services outreach team remains in contact with him and no further action is planned. Lost Dog Cafe, the Westover pizza and sandwich spot, is marking 25 years of its animal rescue arm.
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  Co-founder Pam McAlwee says the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation has helped more than 50,000 dogs and cats find homes since 2001, and it now runs facilities in Falls Church and Fauquier County.
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  A dozen Arlington Democrats spent 90 minutes on August 6th calling Texas voters about that state's Senate race, where Democrat James Talarico faces Republican Ken Paxton.
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  It is part of a Beyond Arlington effort targeting Texas and Ohio. Organizer Kip Malinowski says the goal is finding undecided, persuadable voters. This sponsored update is from Corcoran McEnearney.
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  Today's listing of the day is 3512 North Pocomoke Street in Minor Hill, listed at $2,399,000.
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  It is a custom five-bedroom home on a cul-de-sac with more than 6,400 finished square feet, five and a half baths, and a heated pool on a private lot. It is listed by Sarah Picot of Corcoran McEnearney.
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  In Falls Church, a seven-member committee has started reviewing proposals to redevelop the Virginia Village neighborhood with affordable housing.
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  It met August 6th, the day proposals were due, then went into closed session. Chair Mary Beth Connolly says she hopes to finish by the 27th, with the city council taking up options September 8th.
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  The city's Economic Development Authority owns nine of the 24 plex buildings there. And a look back.
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  ARL now reports that the death of civic leader Vivian Callan in January closed the books on one of Arlington's most unusual elections.
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  In 1969, when the whole county was a single House of Delegates district, four Republicans swept four Democrats, a landslide fueled by a bitter split among state Democrats.
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  Democrats reclaimed three of the four seats two years later. That's all for today. Thank you for listening.