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For a richer experience, you can find the full version of this story here. An Internet connection is required.]My office phone rang on a September morning. A number I didn’t recognize.“Have you heard anything more about the Margaret Yeatman murder?” asked the woman on the other end of the phone. Yeatman. The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.Margaret “Muffie” Yeatman was a 46-year-old Defense Department employee who had been fatally shot in 1986. Now a former D.C. police officer named Linda Tague was intent on explaining what happened next.As we spoke, I searched online for my Washington Post article, which I’d written when I was 25. The headline on the nine-paragraph, July 15, 1986, dispatch: “Slain Woman’s Friend Probed.” Click to open file × Click here to view document“The Alexandria boyfriend of Margaret F. Yeatman, the Annandale woman whose body was found in the trunk of her car June 29, is being investigated in the death, according to a police affidavit. . . . Arthur L. Cunn, who allegedly had been having an affair with Yeatman since 1980, led a ‘double life.’ ”Cunn was a bomb expert at what was then called the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms working four blocks from the White House. Yeatman had fallen in love with him. She told family and friends they were getting married.But it turned out Cunn was already married.The same week Cunn’s wife moved to Washington to join him, someone fired a single bullet from .22-caliber gun into the back of Yeatman’s head. Cunn, then 52, denied having anything to do with the murder. But he did own a .22, police learned. He gave conflicting reasons for the fresh scratches and a soft cast on his arm the day Yeatman was reported missing. Eyeglasses found under her body were identical to the pair he wore, detectives said. The family told police the journals Yeatman kept on her coffee table and pho...

Jeanette Lilly unveils name of her son in the wall at Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial as her daughter Mrs. Susan Lilly Harvey looks on. Dinesh Tiwardi of Alexandria Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities Departments holds umbrella for her. Photo by Wayne HulehanBy Louise MuthA soldier from Alexandria who went Missing in Action (MIA) during the Vietnam War when his helicopter was downed by enemy fire, got a special tribute last month.First Lieutenant Lawrence Eugene Lilly was honored at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial at the Mount Vernon Recreation Center in Alexandria during a ceremony during which his name was inscribed on the wall at the Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which now honors the service and supreme sacrifice of 68 soldiers from Alexandria who were killed or MIA in the Vietnam War.First Lieutenant LT Lilly alone with his AH-1G “Cobra” helicopter. Photo courtesy of the Lilly familyShot Down in CambodiaOn March 17, 1971, when Lilly was just 25 years old, he was the co-pilot of an AH-1G Cobra helicopter in Kratie Province, Cambodia, on a visual reconnaissance mission with pilot Captain David P. Schweitzer. The two were searching for the crew of a Huey helicopter which had been shot down earlier that day when their Cobra was also downed by Viet Cong enemy fire.A command-and-control helicopter swooped down to rescue Schweitzer and Lilly, who were under intense small-arms fire from an enemy ground force. Schweitzer was able to use the Cobra as cover while moving to the rescue helicopter because the exits from the Cobra’s tandem cockpit were on opposite sides, and his exit was on the side away from hostile fire. Lilly’s exit, however, was on the other side, directly in the path of the incoming fire. He was wounded out in the open as he ran toward the rescuers. Meanwhile, the rescue helicopter itself was struck by enemy fire, wounding two crew members and forcing the aircraft to depart. Lilly was last observed motionless on his back near the Cobra, with blood woun...

The team was conducting archaeological test at a site where a fence was to be established inside workshops of the Railway Authority in the city when they made the discovery, the ministry said in a statement.According to the ministry, a number of clay and glass pots and ornamented lamps have been found in the cemetery.The ministry said it has allocated an amount of money to conduct excavations in the area.The Ptolemaic Kingdom was founded in 305 BC by Ptolemy I Soter, who declared himself pharaoh of Egypt and created a powerful Hellenistic dynasty that ruled an area from southern Syria to Cyrene and south to Nubia. The Ptolemy family ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest of 30 BC.Egypt, one of the most ancient civilizations, has been working hard to preserve its archaeological heritage and discover the secrets of its ancient antiquities in a bid to revive the country's ailing tourism sector, which has suffered an acute recession over the past few years due to political turmoil and relevant security issues.Xinhua...