'Deeply Disturbed' Over Negative Campaigns, a Free Skin Cancer Screening and the Number of the Day

It’s Tuesday, Aug. 27. Here are five things you need to know. Tell us what we need to know on the Patch message board!

1. There’s a free skin cancer screening at Lorton Sentara Marketplace today.

2. You Said It: “I am deeply disturbed at all the candidates who do not have a vision for Virginia and are running on a ‘The-other-guy-is-worse’ platform.” A reader regarding a campaign stop by Mark Herring, the Democrat running for attorney general. Herring was critical of his opponent.

3. ICYMI: Here’s Lorton’s weekly crime report.

4. Number of the Day: 1994. That’s the unlucky year for the most stolen car in Virginia. The ‘94 Honda Accord topped the list of the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s annual “Hot Wheels” report.

5. Born on Aug. 27, 1961, fashion designer Tom Ford is 52. Ford has had a big year in pop culture, with shoutouts in songs from Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z. Yahoo noted earlier this month that web searches for “Tom Ford” are surging in 2013.