Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Ashburn mother's case recently was featured on Investigation Discovery's 'Disappeared.'
It's been two years since Bethany Ann Decker disappeared, leaving a young child and a heartbroken mother desperate for her return. "Our family has an empty place that was filled with Bethany's laughter," said Kim Nelson, Bethany's mother. Decker was last seen at her Ashburn apartment on Orchard Grass Terrace Jan. 29, 2011. Her car was found in that apartment's parking lot. She was due to give birth to her second child in August 2011. Nelson jumped into action after her daughter went missing, creating a Facebook fan page and group with the help of those searching for the man who killed Morgan Harrington and raped a Fairfax City woman. She worked with producers of Disappeared on the Investigation Discovery channel to get Decker's name in the…
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Rail decision could make Loudoun a permanent bedroom community or an enviable economic engine, according to regional land use analyst.
A man considered by many leaders in the region to be an expert on land use patterns and their economic impacts — and by some to be a developer shill — released a study that Monday that has supporters of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project salivating and opponents scathing. According to the report, without rail, Loudoun would forego $263.6 billion in gross county product (GCP) from 2020-2040, with $25.6 billion of it foregone in 2040 alone. According to the study by Stephen S. Fuller, the director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, Loudoun’s decision whether to participate in Metro’s Silver Line project has two vastly different potential outcomes: one of a wholly suburban county with the type of commercial …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tori ‘Sho Nuff’ Nelson works at Broad Run, has three jobs, not counting boxing.
Ashburn’s own Tori “Sho Nuff” Nelson takes the ring at the George Mason University Patriot Center in Fairfax City Feb. 11 to faces Houston fighter Vashon “Lady V” Living for the Women’s International Boxing Association’s vacant middleweight championship in a 10-round boxing bout. Nelson (5-0-1), a single mother, works in Loudoun as school bus driver and cafeteria worker at Broad Run High School as well as a waitress IHOP. This past summer in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Nelson won the World Boxing Council’s (WBC) middleweight championship belt in an upset over Lorissa Rivas. She beat Michelle Garland in her action-packed debut at the Patriot Center in September 2010. Ashburn residents have the opportunity on Feb. 6 to meet Nelson; she’ll be …
Dusty Smith
8:05 am on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
It could be a matter of someone thinking the tidbit if information they have is unimportant. Check out the 'Disappeared' website for the most up-to-date info in the case: http://investigation.discovery.com/tv-shows/disappeared/videos/bethany-is-gone.htm more ›