QUANTICO, Va. — Officials at Quantico Maine Corps Base gave the all-clear late Thursday night after someone claimed to have spotted a man with a gun on base.
The reported gunman was said to be near the child development center on base. Marines were sent to check out the situation and the child development center, and Quantico Middle/High School was placed on lockdown, according to a Quantico spokesman.
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Sexual Battery – On August 31st at 5:20PM, police responded to the Braids, Weaves and Gifts located at 1455 Old Bridge Rd in Woodbridge (22192) for a sexual assault.
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The driver of the Kia, Sara M. Jones, 29, of Woodbridge, Va., died at the scene.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Leesylvania State Park in Woodbridge will collect donations for the Fort Belvoir Fisher House as part of series of events honoring the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Virginia.
Between now and Sept. 14, the park will collect donations for the center that provides a “home away from home” for military families while visiting a loved one in the care of the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, according to a press release from Virginia State Parks.
During their response the ECC advised a male patient had jumped from the Chatham Bridge into the river.
Upon arrival Stafford County Fire and Rescue personnel located a male patient near the Stafford Shore. The patient was immobilized, lifted to the Chatham Bridge and transported to Mary Washington Hospital
WOODBRIGDE, Va. — On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., the public is invited to attend a ceremony commemorating the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. The ceremony will be held on the County Complex at the County’s Liberty Memorial.
The ceremony will include brief comments by Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, the reading of the names of the County residents who were lost on that day, and placing flowers on the memorial fountain to honor and remember them.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — A landfill that wants to expand upward is now forced to pay up.
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NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A total of 136 new parking spaces will be added at Smith Lake Park, which is the home to five heavily used soccer fields. With the new parking spaces, all five soccer fields will be able to be used simultaneously for the first time.
Work on the $547,000 project, which also includes a new maintenance facility that will include a “modest” equipment shop with two vehicle bays that can be used to load trucks with salt and sand for snow removal operations, should be complete next spring. Officials said working on the project during the winter months will have the least impact on park visitors.
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