The Prince William County Board of Supervisors is about to set their meeting schedule for 2015.
The Board currently meets at 2 p.m. Tuesdays and tackles the business of running the county government. Whether making decisions about what gets built where, what road improvements are needed, or what the property tax rate should be – the county’s main source of revenue — these and many other items are all decided at the regular meetings.
One person has been stabbed in an apparent road rage incident in Stafford.
The attack occurred on Mine Road near a Walmart in North Stafford when two vehicles were stopped at a traffic light around 5 p.m., according to Stafford County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Bill Kennedy. One person got out of their vehicle and approached the other. That’s when the stabbing occurred.
A Warrenton man was shot several times, and another man and a woman also suffered gunshot wounds.
Police were called to a home in the 10100 block of Portsmouth Road outside Manassas at 10:02 p.m., Saturday for a report of a shooting.
The investigation into a shooting that took place overnight in Dale City has taken police officers to the Montclair neighborhood.
Fire and rescue crews were called to a home in the 15500 block of Winding Creek Drive at 5:37 a.m., for a report of a man who was injured by a firework. Rescue crews determined the man had been shot, stated Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
On December 11th, members of our community gathered at the Dumfries-Triangle Rescue Squad for “A Community Conversation.”
In light of the Grand Jury decisions in the cases involving Michael Brown and Eric Garner, members of the community gathered to discuss ethnic relations in Prince William County, and how citizens can become more involved in civic engagement opportunities in our communities.
All aboard the John Jenkins Express.
Jenkins, the longest currently serving Prince William County Board of Supervisors, is recognized for his participation on the Virginia Railway Express Operations Board. He and eight other VRE Board members who played key roles in the development of the commuter railroad since its founding in 1992 will have their names affixed to the front of VRE locomotives.
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Prince William police officers were out bringing joy and spreading Christmas cheer Thursday.
A man found in the waters of the Aquia Creek at the confluence of the Potomac River died Thursday.
Daniel Stuart Curran, 58, of Bowling Green, Virginia, died after the 16-foot Polar Craft fishing boat he and his son-in-law were duck hunting on capsized. The boat became entangled in a gill net and started to take on water, according to a preliminary report by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
Fewer women in the U.S. are having babies.
The national birth rate declined in 2013 to 3.93 million births, continuing a six-year drop off. Women between the ages of 15 and 44 last year bore an average of 1.86 babies, and that’s below the 2.1 average the National Center for Health Statistics said is necessary for a stable population.
