Elysium — Rated R — 3 star out of 5
The movie “Elysium” sounds like a prescription for a bad infection, but it’s the new sci-fi thriller from Director/Writer Neill Blomkamp (District 9).
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Author: Potomac Local News
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By KJ MUSHUNG
It may be August but the summer concert season has shows well into September within easy driving distance and for a lot less than you might expect. But first, you’ll have to head south.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Police said a man used a mirror and a shopping cart to look up a women’s dress.
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LAKE RIDGE, Va. — Police said someone broke into a Lake Ridge golf club and and then took golf carts for a joyride.
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MANASSAS, Va. — The Prince William County Fair kicks off today.
Gates are scheduled to open at 5 p.m. for the largest county fair in Virginia, and it’s set to feature one of the most popular attractions at the fair starting at 7 p.m. — a demolition derby.
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Potomac Local Leaders
There was such a time when internet access was not available for the simple things like applying for a job, reading news, watching House of Cards on Netflix, or playing Words with Friends on your iPad.
MANASSAS, Va. — In July, the City of Manassas Neighborhood Services Division hosted more than 100 international students from the Shenzhen Foreign Languages School (SFLS) in China at Osbourn High School (OHS).
The day-long project partnered SFLS students with OHS students. Supervisors for the program included Mike Dufrene, Freshman Academy Administrator for OHS, Project Infusion Executive Director Tina Murray, City of Manassas senior planner Morgan Brim and Neighborhood Services Manager Kisha Wilson-Sogunro.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — One man is custody tonight following a police pursuit that ended on Purcell Road in a wreck in Prince William County.
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GAINESVILLE, Va. –– Jimmy Buffett proved to be too much for construction crews, so work to switch the flow of traffic at a major Gainesville intersection has been postponed.
The Virginia Department of Transportation will shift traffic on to a new bridge that will carry on Linton Hall Road over U.S. 29, which will eliminate an at-grade crossing notoriously known as the site of several collisions with trains and cars.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Virginia’s transportation chief is ready to move forward with passenger ferry service from Woodbridge to Washington, D.C.
Sean Connaughton, the state’s Transportation Secretary, told Prince William officials on Tuesday that a commuter ferry service linking the two jurisdictions is closer now than ever before.