Each week, Patch brings you the top headlines from the Route 1 corridor.

Fort Hunt Patch

UCM, Shelter House Inc., and Northern Virginia Family Services joined forces to host the True Reality Sleep Out event on Friday.

A development along Richmond Highway will be providing some funds toward an artificial turf field for a local high school, according to community updates Monday evening from Fairfax County Supervisor Gerry Hyland and others. However, it may be some time before students are able to use it.

Mount Vernon Patch

Fairfax County Police arrested dozens of suspects on drug and weapons charges as part of a yearlong investigation in Fairfax County.

Maureen Moodie, Farm Director at Arcadia Center for Sustainable Agriculture, has left Arcadia for a new job at Moutoux Orchards in Loudoun County.

Huntington-Belle Haven Patch

A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a dump truck traveling northbound in the right lane of Richmond Highway just south of Huntington Avenue early Thursday morning.

West Potomac High School athlete Darien Pickett will try out for the U.S. High School All-American rugby team in December.