2 p.m.
Students and staff have returned to classrooms at Occoquan Elementary School.
Author: Potomac Local News
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Two men who have been on the run from police for nearly a week are now in custody in a Florida jail.
The two brothers, Christopher Tolliver, 27, and Douglas Tolliver, 29, are suspects in the shooting death of Tasheka Leavell, 35, who was shot and killed inside of her Dumfries home Thursday.
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1:25 p.m.
Power is now restored to Dumfries Elementary School, Prince William schools spokeswoman Irene Cromer said. Because the school’s kitchen is outfitted with a gas stove, lunch was prepared and provided to the students as normal.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — The region awoke to one of the coldest mornings in years, with temperatures in the low to mid teens and wind chill factors making feel like zero degrees outside.
By 10 a.m. temperatures had climbed to the low 20s, and they are not expected to rise much higher than that. Tonight, a clipper system could bring a dusting of snow our way, according to the National Weather Service. With arctic air overhead, whatever falls is expected to freeze and could cause slippery conditions into Thursday morning.
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By MARY DAVIDSON
Boiling water can freeze in two seconds.
By MARK ROBINSON
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, and Sen. Emmett Hanger Jr., R-Mount Solon, are friends. And they’ll remain friends, Deeds says, even if a controversial measure Hanger voted for costs Deeds his seat in the Virginia Senate.
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STAFFORD, Va. — Stafford County leaders today threw their support behind Gwyneth’s Law, a bill that would require schools to provide training in first aid, CPR, and the us of automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.
The law is named after 12-year-old Gwyneth Griffin who collapsed while running track at Stafford County’s A.G. Wright Middle School and then later died. Griffen’s father, Joel, told Fredericksburg.com no one at the school was able to care for his daughter following her collapse.
STAFFORD, Va. — Stafford County has a new leader for its Parks and Recreation Department.
Jamie Porter was announced as the county’s new leader following a department move from former Director Chris Hoppe who left the parks department last year to become Stafford County’s Capital Improvement Program Manager.
MANASSAS, Va. — Police need your help in finding out who burglarized a tractor store in Manassas.
Here’s more in a press release: