Possible measles exposure at NationalSome travelers at Reagan National Airport last week may have been exposed to measles, the Arlington County Public Health Department said Friday.
The department said travelers in Terminal C between 8:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 may have been exposed to someone with measles. Those most at risk have been notified, the department said.
Measles is contagious and spread through coughing, sneezing, and contact with secretions from the nose, mouth or throat of someone who is infected.
Symptoms include a fever, runny nose, watery red eyes, cough and rash.
Man gets prison for overfishing
A Virginia commercial fisherman was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home detention for illegally fishing and selling striped bass, also known as rockfish.
Dennis Dent, 47, was sentenced in federal court in Greenbelt.
According to court records, Dent admitted to unlawfully harvesting more than 16,000 pounds of rockfish from the Potomac River and its tributaries from 2005 to 2007. The commercial value of the fish was about $83,000.
The fish were supposed to be tagged with state-issued devices, but Dent didn’t tag the fish in order to catch more than regulations allow.
2 sentenced, 2 to face trial in cocaine trafficking
Two men are scheduled to face trail Monday for their alleged roles in a cocaine-trafficking scheme that transported drugs from Mexico to Northern Virginia.
Jamin Oliva-Madrid and Esteban Salguero-Ortiz are scheduled to go to trial in federal court in Alexandria.
Two other defendants in the enterprise were sentenced Friday. Rufino Oliva-Madrid received 15 years and eight months in prison, and Jose Vasquez-Reyes was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months.
Fifteen people were indicted in June for their roles in the operation, and 11 have pleaded guilty.
– Emily Babay
