DUMFRIES, Va. — A new community service program in Dumfries aims to pair volunteer mentors with the youths that need them most.
Janae Williams, 23, of Dumfries, and Brittany Jordan, 20, of Stafford, are working as part of the new Dumfries Cares program at the town’s community center on Main Street.
By ALLISON LANDRY and AMBER SHIFLETT
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – At a groundbreaking ceremony for the Bon Secours Redskins Training Center, Gov. Bob McDonnell gave a play-by-play of how the facility will boost the economy and create jobs.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A fire broke out at a home in the George Washington section of Stafford County last night.
No one was injured. The county’s fire and rescue department posted more information and a photo taken from the scene:
Opinion
I’m a telework evangelist. I enjoy “connecting the dots” between the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, Rep. Gerry Connolly’s Telework 2.0 initiative, Virginia Delegates Ramadan and Comstock’s legislation to offer telework tax credits, the federal push to reduce the size and cost of Government, BRAC, and our ever-expanding road budget.
By JESSICA WILDE
Capital News Service
MCDANIEL, Md. – A warmer, drier year has been good for oysters, both natural and planted, in the Eastern Shore’s Harris Creek, a tributary of the Choptank River and site of the first tributary-wide restoration effort by the Oyster Recovery Partnership.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — One woman, the driver of a car that slammed into a tractor trailer about 8 p.m. Friday night in Stafford County, faces charges.
The crash happened when a tractor trailer was backing into the parking lot of a business while using all four lanes of U.S. 1 just south of Telegraph Road. About the same time, the female driver of a 2001 Volvo sedan with small child inside traveling south on U.S. 1 slammed into the truck’s trailer, said Virginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – Expect more closures this upcoming week on Interstate 95.
A large crane will be moved across a portion of the highway as part of work on the 95 Express Lane Project. The Virginia MegaProjects office said a portion of the highway at the Telegraph Road overpass in North Stafford will close for up to 30 minutes at time Wednesday night into early Thursday morning.
By ALLISON LANDRY
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – A bill to ban minors 14 and younger from tanning at a tanning salon has been killed for this legislative session.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. – In a show of bipartisanship, Delegate Luke Torian, D-Prince William, says he supports improvements to school safety in Virginia following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
More in a press release from Torian:
