A Woodbridge man who admitted downloading and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors say Dennis Craig Bell, 55, was a U.S. Capitol Police officer when on Dec. 14, 2009 he used a peer-to-peer internet connection to share pornographic images depicting children. (more…)
The area is under a heat advisory today from the National Weather Service today, where were told to expect temperatures that feel like 100 to 105 degrees.
Those triple-digit temperatures are actually the heat index values forecasted today between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. The actual temperatures are forecasted to reach the upper 90s today, the weather service stated. (more…)
Some people in need got a generous donation of food, prompting a local charity to celebrate.
A tractor-trailer pulled into the ACTS food pantry in Dumfries on July 29 loaded with 20 pallets of non-perishable food. (more…)
Woodbridge, Va. – Belvoir Federal Credit Union will end its partnership with three Woodbridge area schools.
Branches of the credit union had been set up at Gar-Field and Woodbridge high schools, and Godwin and Woodbridge middle schools, under a partnership between the credit union and Prince William public schools. (more…)
The region is under a severe thunderstorm warning from the National Weather Service.
At 7:55 p.m., the weather service spotted a line of potentially damaging storms moving from the northwest to the southeast. (more…)
Fairfax County, Va. – Police say a Maryland man accidentally drowned last weekend in the Potomac River.
An investigation was launched when the body of 46-year-old Kenneth E. Huggins, of Suitland, Md. was found Sunday after a 911 call reported him missing the day before. (more…)
Stafford County, Va. – One man faces murder charges in the death of a Stafford County antique store owner.
Stafford County detectives traveled to the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center in Winchester on Tuesday night and served an arrest warrant for 63-year-old Julian Lee “Buzz” Burke, who was already in jail on a first-degree murder charge from an incident that took place in Fauquier County in November 2009, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy. (more…)
Stafford County, Va. – It was a night for residents to come outside and meet their neighbors.
More than 300 people Tuesday attended a National Night Out celebration at Stafford Marketplace, off Va. 610 in North Stafford, where they met animals, took pony rides, participated in raffle drawings and met members of the local sheriff’s and fire and rescue departments.
Kenneth T. Cuccinelli stated that like officers in Arizona, Virginia police officers have the ability to inquire about the immigration status of those who they arrest.
That’s nothing new, as Stafford County Sheriff Charles E. Jett says the immigration statuses of persons they arrest have always been checked at the jail. (more…)
Falmouth, Va. – U.S. 1 in Falmouth reopened about 3:30 p.m. after a car accidnet closed the road.
The crash closed the busy intersection of U.S. 1 and U.S. 17 just before 3 p.m.
