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07/13/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. Members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors are wary of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's funding plan for the extension of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport. Lahood has been involved in talks with regional leaders, who have been working to reduce the cost of the $3.5 billion rail project. Under LaHood's plan, Fairfax ...
07/07/11 A 19-year-old Herndon woman has filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging she was fired from her Air France job at Dulles International Airport because she refused to remove her religious head scarf.
07/07/11 Leah Fabel Reps. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., wrote a joint letter Thursday backing a plan that would reduce costs to Dulles Rail construction while finally allowing the massive project to move forward. The plan, crafted by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and reported last week , calls for an aboveground Metro station at Dulles International Airport as well as some ...
07/02/11 A 300X300 foot mulch fire has broken out on Willard Road, south of Dulles International Airport.
06/14/11 A man was trying to smuggle more than three pounds of heroine, in his body, when officials busted him at Dulles International Airport.
06/02/11 Government and airline officials say a United Airlines plane with 144 people aboard returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport for an emergency landing escorted by two F-16 fighter jets after a fight broke out between passengers.
06/01/11 Plane returns after fistfight beaks out WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government and airline officials say a United Airlines plane with 144 people aboard returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport
06/01/11 Local, state and federal officials invested in the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport committed Wednesday to working together to try to reduce the cost of the project and to come up with a viable financing plan within 30 days. The agreement came after at least 20 regional leaders met with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in his Southeast Washington offices to break an ...
05/31/11 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will try to make peace Wednesday between the key players shaping the future of the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport. Debate between the board overseeing the project and the local and state officials helping to pay for it has centered on the cost and location of the airport station . But the issue has touched off broader concerns about ...
05/19/11 RICHMOND - A fight is brewing again over the long-studied outer beltway that would connect Loudoun and Prince William counties with Dulles International Airport.
05/11/11 Leah Fabel Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is the most recent in a long line of officials jumping on the bandwagon running over the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for its handling of costs related to the construction of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport and beyond. Connolly, like his colleague, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., before him, and Gov. Bob McDonnell before Wolf, and a slew of ...
05/05/11 I take exception to several parts of Mame Reiley's April 29 commentary, "An underground station was the smart choice for Dulles," regarding the construction of Phase 2 of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport.
04/28/11 When the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority approved an underground Metro station for Dulles International Airport last week, we were guided by two clear priorities: Do what is best for passengers and our communities and do it in the most cost-efficient way possible.
04/26/11 What kind of Metro station should be built at Dulles International Airport? Above ground or underground? Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has jumped into the fight between the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Loudoun and Fairfax Counties.
04/26/11 As you may have heard, cops in the fine city of Washington kindly gave Charlie Sheen a police escort from Washington's Dulles International Airport to his show at DAR Constitution Hall last Tuesday. He was running a bit late, y'see.
04/18/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press CHANTILLY, Va. The chairman of the board that oversees the Washington area's two major airports is inviting Virginia officials to discuss the decision to build an underground Metro station for Dulles International Airport. The decision earlier this month by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority angered state and local political leaders from both ...
04/12/11 Leah Fabel Examiner Staff Writer Follow Her @lfabel Virginia state and local officials are refusing to pay the extra costs associated with construction of the Dulles Rail project because of a disagreement over where to build the Metro train station at Washington Dulles International Airport. The organization responsible for building the multibillion-dollar project, the Metropolitan ...
04/06/11 A Metrorail station at Dulles International Airport will be built underground, giving hurried travelers sheltered access near the airport terminal.
04/06/11 A Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority committee voted in favor of an underground station at Dulles International Airport, ignoring pleas from Virginia counties that will shoulder the additional $330 million in construction costs. The authority's Board of Directors must still approve the design, which committee Chairwoman Mame Reiley said is a more pedestrian-friendly station. With the ...
03/15/11 Several Loudoun leaders want to send Metrorail trains flying at Dulles International Airport.
02/28/11 A woman infected with measles, a contagious and potentially dangerous disease, traveled through the District and Maryland after flying into Dulles International Airport, it was disclosed Monday. | 
