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The master suite in the Torino model at Woodmore North features a luxury bath with a corner soaking tub and a separate shower with a seat. The Torino has 3,382 square feet and is priced from $527,990.
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The Emerson model at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates has a center-island kitchen with 42-inch cabinets, granite counters and recessed lighting. The kitchen is open to the breakfast area. The Emerson is priced from $559,900.
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The Hylton Group is building 114 single-family homes on half-acre sites at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates in Dale City. The homes have 2,709 to 3,254 finished square feet, with base prices from $519,900 to $566,900.
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"Project Truth Soviet Propaganda Alert" Summary page In order to monitor and counter Soviet disinformation activities, the United States International Communication Agency (USICA) created the Project Truth program. USICA, under the direction of Charles Wick, developed a satellite television broadcasting system and Radio Marti to broadcast information about U.S. policy to foreign countries. This Soviet Propaganda Alert was distributed to USICA posts around the world. Photo: National Archives, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
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Rising floodwaters in a suburb of Rockhampton in tropical Queensland, Australia, is not expected to peak until Wednesday. (Rockhampton Regional Council via Associated Press)
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A view of a partial solar eclipse as seen from the town of Givatayim near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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People are silhouetted against light pollution in the sky before daylight beside telescopes setup up to view the partial solar eclipse from Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath in London, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Cloudy skies hung over London on Tuesday morning, preventing a view from Parliament Hill of the partial solar eclipse that began over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Israelis watch a partial solar eclipse in the town of Givatayim near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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A combo picture shows the different phases of a partial solar eclipse seen in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Venezuelan tourists watch a partial solar eclipse in front of the Giza Pyramids, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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A view of a partial solar eclipse as seen from Gaza city Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A Lebanese worker watchs through X-ray the partial solar eclipse, at the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Tuesday Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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A Jordanian man uses his hand to show a reflected image of the partial solar eclipse, in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)
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Pakistani familes bury their children during the partial solar eclipse in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Superstitious people hope that burying ailing person during solar eclipse will cure them. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)
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A partial solar eclipse is seen through clouds over a church statue of the Virgin Mary, at the southern village of Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Michael R. Bromwich, chief of the federal agency that overseas offshore drilling, calls Monday's ruling a "significant step." (Associated Press)
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Outgoing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) congratulates his successor, Jerry Brown, after Mr. Brown was sworn in in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday. Former Gov. Gray Davis, who preceded Mr. Schwarzenegger, looks on. (Associated Press)
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In this photo made on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, Cecil Griffith, right, the maintenance supervisor, and Jim Riggio, the plant manager for the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, watch the bubbler at one of the intake gates on the Beaver River at the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority water treatment plant in Beaver Falls, Pa.. Their water began flunking tests for trihalomethanes regularly last year, around the time that a facility 18 miles upstream became Pennsylvania's dominant gas wastewater treatment plant. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Dead birds lie on the ground after being thrown off the roof of a home by a worker with United States Environmental Services LLC in Beebe, Ark. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 3,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over the Arkansas town. (AP Photo/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)
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Workers with United States Environmental Services LLC collect dead birds from the back yard of a home in Beebe, Ark. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 3,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over the Arkansas town. (AP Photo/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)
