VDOT Truck Flips In Alexandria: News Nearby

There was plenty of news across Virginia and Washington, DC, on Thursday. If you missed any of it on your local Patch, here's a roundup of some of the top stories from the past 24 hours.

• VDOT Truck Overturns On Telegraph Road
• All-Clear Given For Hammond Middle School
• Armed Man In Bleacher Brawl At Fredericksburg Prep Hoops Game

This DC Snow Map Is Just Embarrassing

WASHINGTON, DC -- We recently showed you the "snow hole" over the D.C. area during the latest storm, but it's been there all season, apparently. An incredible map, embedded below, shows just how snow-unlucky (or lucky, depending on your point of view) we have been this winter so far.

8-Year-Old Boy Tells Mom Head Hurts; Doctors Say He Had A Stroke

HOPEWELL, VA — When a third-grader in Hopewell, Virginia, told his his mother he had a headache, she did what many moms would do: She gave him ibuprofen, an over-the-counter painkiller. Minutes later, he screamed and cried for help. It wasn't until further medical tests that doctors discovered he'd suffered something typically associated with people decades his elder: a stroke.

Gun Pointed At Driver In Woodbridge Road Rage Incident: Police

WOODBRIDGE, VA—Authorities are looking for a Maryland man who in an apparent fit of road rage threatened another driver with a gun Jan. 7 at the intersection of Benita Fitzgerald Drive and Brickwood Drive, according to Prince William County Police.

DC, NoVa Both Make Amazon 2nd HQ Short List

WASHINGTON, DC — Amazon has just released a "short list" of 20 metropolitan areas that will move on in the next phase of the bidding process for their second headquarters, and both D.C. and Northern Virginia are on it.

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