Jennifer van der Kleut (formerly Jennifer McBride) was born and raised in the southern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. She graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University. She was a full-time writer for Silicon Valley Community Newsgroup from 2004 to 2006, writing for newspapers such as the Los Gatos Weekly and Saratoga News, among others. She wrote the weekly history column Los Gatos: Now and Then for the Los Gatos Daily News throughout 2007, and was a contributing editor at South Bay Accent Magazine from 2008 to 2009. She has also lent her voice to many other publications such as the Los Gatos Weekender and the online Brizzly Guide.
Jennifer was one of the very first freelance writers to contribute to many of the first Bay Patch sites in the Bay Area when they first launched in the fall of 2010. After contributing for more than a year and a half, Jennifer was hired on as an official Patch employee in May of 2012. She is very excited to be a full-fledged member of the Patch family.
In California, Jennifer served as the interim editor for Milpitas Patch in the South Bay, an associate editor for the San Mateo and Foster City Patch sites on the Peninsula, and then served as the head local editor for RedwoodCity-Woodside Patch, before transferring to the east coast in April of 2013.
Jennifer is now the local editor for both Herndon Patch and Fairfax City Patch. She loves being a part of these two communities and getting to know her new home in Northern Virginia.
Jennifer currently lives in the Clifton/Centreville with her husband, Alex and her two sons, Connor, born in Sept. 2007, and Oliver, or Ollie, born in May 2010.
County police said electronics found in the home of Paul David Bollinger contained more than 30,000 images and videos of child pornography.
County police said electronics found in the home of Paul David Bollinger contained more than 30,000 images and videos of child pornography.
Thirty-seven thousand children are exposed to fresh, local produce through the county's farm-to-school program.
Kevin Lee is from Fulton. He was last seen Tuesday evening near Brown Bridge Road.
The Baltimore-based, family-owned grocery store chain cites declining sales, increased competition.
Brian Keith Cooper Jr. is accused of showing a fake police badge and threatening women with arrest if they did not perform sexual acts.
The Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public's help locating 73-year-old Robert Staicos.
Schools, government and Harford Transit are among Monday's closures.
The three friends set out Friday morning and did not return, authorities said.
The man, from Upper Marlboro, claimed to have been contracted by a recycling company to remove the track.
The man claimed to have been contracted by a recycling company to remove the track.
Police say evidence connects the two teens with three separate robberies between December and February.
And, read about what makes these cities so much more dangerous than the rest of the country.
Elmar Rakhamimov fenced stolen jewelry, and operated cigarette and prescription drug ring out of home, according to prosecutors.
Michael Brandon Osikomaiya is charged with acting as a pimp for a 16-year-old girl and advertising sex with her on the Internet.
Fourteen-year-old Taegan Valenti was last seen on May 19. Police now believe she may be heading to West Virginia with her older boyfriend.
Megan Blackwell thought it was only fitting since her $10,000 win came from a Crab Cash scratch-off ticket.
The man and several others robbed a home to steal guns, then kidnapped a store employee and forced him to help with the store robbery.
The couple reportedly created their own fake IT company that billed Sheppard Pratt Health System for $2.7 million, which they pocketed.
Visit all nine of the dairy farms across Maryland over the next 18 weeks to complete your 'passport' and you could win several prizes.
