Update Friday 3 p.m.
Virginia State Police is continuing its investigation into yesterdays shooting on Interstate 95 southbound at the 116 mile marker. Senior Trooper Michael H. Hamer remains at Mary Washington Hospital where he is recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg.
A Virginia State Trooper has been transported by ambulance to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg with serious non-life threatening injuries. A suspect has been flown to Mary Washington Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Both suffered gunshot wounds.
The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Shoot Team is on-scene and investigating the incident.
Woodbridge, Va. — That police helicopter Dale City residents reported seeing this afternoon could have very well been looking for the man police say robbed a nearby PNC Bank.
The PNC Bank at 12650 Apollo Drive, near Hoadly Road and Prince William Parkway, before 11 a.m. and robbed the bank of an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.
“The exhibition is a teaching and learning experience,” Gallick said. “For example, we give assignments based on the show, such as asking students to select three artworks and discuss art techniques used. The show is also a gathering spot where faculty, staff and students share ideas on art and other discussions that may unfold.”
Gallick’s latest celebrity portraits were inspired by Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.” Her artworks range from an unfinished rendering of Woody Allen on canvas to highly embellished, mixed-media portraits of Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh.
Congressman Gerry Connolly said the unemployment rate in both Fairfax and Prince William Counties dropped again in October, a sign that Northern Virginia’s economy remains strong.
The latest statistics from the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) show the unemployment rate for Fairfax County in October was 4.2 percent, down from 4.6 percent in September.
Update 2:30 p.m.
Harrell Road in Stafford reopened after it was closed due to flooding. Kellogg Mill and River roads remain closed.
Woodbridge, Va. — If you’ve missed fine dining and the views of the Occoquan River at Belmont Bay then you’re in luck, as Osprey’s Landing restaurant has reopened for business.
The U.S. marked the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Wednesday. On the anniversary date two years ago at the Museum of the National Marine Corps in Triangle, our KJ Mushung snapped this photo of the sun casting shadows on one of the displays inside the museum.
Arrested:
Rodney Leon WARD, 25, of 1754 Ann Scarlet Ct in Woodbridge, Charged with possession with intent to distribute [PWID] a schedule I or II narcotic [cocaine], PWID marijuana, PWID methamphetamine, driving while intoxicated and refusal. Court date unavailable, held on a $5,000 secured bond at the time of the arrest.
Seventy years ago today America began a transformation that would take it from being an inward-looking and isolationist backwater to becoming one of the greatest powers the world has ever known. The country the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941 was not the same country that would defeat them a scant three years and nine months later.
The transformation of the U.S. is all the more remarkable when you consider how ill-prepared the country really was to conduct World War II, even though that war sure seems all but inevitable in hindsight. Prior to World War II we could only count 190,000 soldiers and 464 tanks in the U.S. Army. At the time, neither the soldiers nor the tanks seemed ready for war. The soldiers’ training was generally inferior and their weapons did not compare favorably to those of other nations. In 1939, our forces were basically equal to those of Romania.
