After a four hour special Falls Church City Council meeting tonight, The Wilden still lives. An effort to kill it with a motion to deny the partners seeking to develop the 63-unit senior affordable housing project a modification of the terms of an earlier approval from the Council failed by a 4-3 vote after 11 p.m tonight.

No Suspects 1 Month After Slaying of F.C. Woman, 19

A cousin of the 19-year-old Falls Church woman murdered last month described herself Monday as a “wreck” who’s been playing detective from her Norwalk, Conn. home while the stabbing of her relative, Vanessa Pham, goes unsolved by Fairfax County police.

In an exclusive interview with the News-Press tonight, Carol Jackson, executive director of the non-profit Falls Church Housing Corporation (FCHC), addressed the major concerns being raised by some F.C. City Council members over the FCHC's request for a minor modification in the terms of use of a $2 million City loan. The request will be considered at a special meeting of the Council Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Council chambers at City Hall.