Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Nathan Portnoy allegedly met 12-year-old Bethesda girl online, held relationship for three months
Nathan Portnoy, a McLean High School Class of 2007 graduate and an Iraq War veteran who recently made news trying to save a Falls Church teenager electrocuted during the derecho, has been accused of having a relationship with a 12-year-old Bethesda girl online, asking to have sex with her, and then pointing a gun at her family members near a Bethesda park where the two met. Montgomery County (Md.) police said in a release last week Portnoy, 23, now a Falls Church resident, has been charged with first degree assault, kidnapping of a child under 16 and sexual solicitation of a minor in the Aug. 24 incident. According to police, Portnoy and the 12-year-old victim talked for about three months online and on the phone before the incident, and …
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Heroes at Home creates a safe environment for Capt. and Mrs. Horan.
Five years ago this month, Capt. Patrick Horan took a bullet to his head during a night operation in Baghdad, Iraq. "Pat was injured and we weren't sure he would make it," his wife Patty Horan said Tuesday. Surgeons removed half of his skull and the left side of his brain. "We didn't know if he would wake up or walk," Patty Horan said. Tuesday morning Capt. Horan stood beside his wife and gazed over the front yard of their new McLean home. The yard brimmed with family, friends and a army of volunteers who have spent the last seven months modifying a home on Old Dominion Road to create a safe environment for him to continue to rebuild his body and his life. "We are amazed by his recovery and the outpouring of the community," Patty Horan …
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Several McLean Neighbors Played Key Roles in 8 year war.
The last U.S. soldiers rolled across the border into Kuwait Sunday morning officially ending the eight-year war in Iraq. The last troops left Contingency Operating Base Adder in the early morning on Saturday, according to the Washington Post. About 100 of the last armored vehicles rolled along an empty stretch of highway to the Kuwaiti border from dusk through the break of day, according to Reuters. McLean neighbors played leading roles in the war from policymakers, intelligence officers to servicemen men who fought. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is seen along with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield as the major architects of the war. The war marked the first time in U.S. history that the nation went to war with a nation that …
