Betty Weimer, the General Registrar of Prince William County in the Office of Voter Registrations and Elections, has retired after working for 28 year in the elections office.
Author: Potomac Local News
DUMFRIES, Va. — Two lanes crash on Interstate 95 at Dumfries has severely slowed traffic this afternoon.
The crash is at mile post 152 south at Va. 234, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Kermit Gosnell, the man who ran the “house of horrors” abortion clinic in Pennsylvania was found guilty on three of four charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of four babies, and on an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death of a Woodbridge woman.
The verdict was handed down today in a Philadelphia courtroom.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. – A homeless woman was raped while inside of her tent in Woodbridge.
Police said the victim was asleep at an homeless encampment in the area of Potomac Mills Road and Town Center Drive at when a man she knew entered the tent and raped her at 4:11 a.m. The man then fled the area and then turned himself into police a short time later.
Submitted News
TRIANGLE, Va. – In an effort to bring attention to the ever-increasing problem of human trafficking, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Triangle, Va., will offer human trafficking awareness presentations at the parish after all the Masses on the weekend of May 18-19, 2013.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Beating back political opponents who might call it an unpopular decision, Prince William Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart led the conversation to restore a drug rehabilitation inside an area jail.
The DORM program, known at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center in Manassas as the Drug Rehabilitation Module, had its funding restored for the coming fiscal year. To get there, leaders made $635,000 in cuts in other areas of the county’s budget, including a decision to put off the hiring of a deputy county executive, cuts to a public health program, cuts to transportation monies doled out by County Supervisors in their respective magisterial districts, and a $50,000 reduction in funding to the Hylton Performing Arts Center.
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OPINION
This news website covered the Prince William Chamber of Commerce’ Legislative wrap-up earlier this week. I attended. For full disclosure, I am a Charter Founding Member of the Prince William Chamber of Commerce, and serve on the Government Affairs Committee. I did not participate in this years score card exercise.
STAFFORD, Va. — A Stafford man died Friday when his car collided with another.
Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said a 2005 Honda Accord driven by 35-year-old Jeffery L. Bolling, 35, crossed the double yellow lines of Shelton Shop Road near Courthouse Road and collided with a 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche traveling in the opposite direction at 11:59 a.m.
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By KJ Mushung
STAFFORD, Va. – Stafford County sheriff’s deputies arrested a fugitive and extradited him to Raleigh to face serious charges of child sexual assault.
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STAFFORD, Va. — Charges have been brought against a Stafford County man who shot his wife late last month, investigators said.
A grand jury in Stafford today indicted 42-year-old Arthur Gonzales, of 59 Alderman Drive, in the death of his estranged wife, Julie Serena Gonzales. Stafford sheriff deputies found the woman shot to death inside Gonzales’ home on April 19. The suspect told 911 operators that his wife attacked him and that he shot her after an argument, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.