Artwork: Dana Verkouteren Asra Nomani | April 29, 2024 (Fairfax County Times) — In Courtroom 1000 of the federal courthouse in Alexandria, on day 24 of the trial, a clerk for federal judge Rossie D. Alston read the jury’s verdict about whether the Fairfax County School Board, a principal, three assistant principals, three teachers, and […]
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Asra Q. Nomani | March 27, 2024 (Fairfax County Times) — Inside Courtroom 1000 of the federal courthouse in Alexandria, for day six of a trial over an alleged rape coverup by school officials, a young woman, “Kate,” transported about 50 people from the vaulted courtroom where she sat on the witness stand to a
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Asra Nomani | March 21, 2024 (Fairfax County Times) — You could hear a pin drop in Courtroom 1000 in the last hour of the third day of a trial over an alleged rape coverup by Fairfax County Public Schools officials 12 years ago. In the witness box, a young man, 25, whom the Fairfax
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Fairfax County Times | September 18, 2023 Just down the road from our offices, at Gunston Hall, a gentleman farmer and founding father from Fairfax County during colonial times, George Mason, worked tirelessly to ensure his fellow Virginians were not oppressed by a government located across the Atlantic Ocean. Mason was elected to the legislature
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Asra Nomani | July 14, 2023 (Fairfax County Times) — Fairfax County School Board Chair Rachna Sizemore Heizer quietly signed a settlement, agreeing recently to pay a former student, “Jane Doe,” $587,500 to end a civil lawsuit alleging the school system covered up a sexual assault. Meanwhile, Sizemore Heizer and the school board continue to
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