OCCOQUAN, Va. — Business owners and town residents welcomed guests to Occoquan on Friday for the annual lighting of the town’s Christmas Tree.
Author: Potomac Local News
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It’s the busiest travel time of the year and already drivers have packed area roadways to head over the hills and through the woods.
AAA Mid-Atlantic says more than 1 million people in the Washington area will travel more than 50 miles away from home this Thanksgiving holiday – about a 1.3 percent increase in the number of travelers over the same time last year.
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STAFFORD, Va. – Stafford County will light its Christmas Tree at the county courthouse this year.
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By URIAH KISER
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — The Prince William County Electoral Board thought they had enough voting machines. Last night they admitted they didn’t, and that led to voters at Woodbridge’s River Oaks precinct waiting in lines for up to four hours to cast their ballot Election Day Nov. 6. The last ballot was marked at River Oaks at 10:45 p.m., marking it the most problematic of the county’s 84 77 voting precincts.
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3 p.m. UPDATE FROM POLICE REPORTS
Virginia State Police have charged a New Jersey man with multiple felony counts following an early morning incident on Interstate 95 in Prince William County. David A. Servais, 23, of Millville, N.J., is being held at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center on the following charges: threatening to bomb a mode of transportation; abduction by force; drunk in public; possession of synthetic cannabinoids (spice); and fugitive from justice.
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UPDATE
All lanes have been reopened after a truck spilled sewage on U.S. 1.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — It’s not often the community comes together to build a new house for neighbors.
But that’s what’s happening for Mahammad Islam and his wife Rebaya Kahtoon who will move into a new home on Traverser Court in Woodbridge at the end of the month.
Forget standing in line on Black Friday at that electronics store: Virginia’s ABC stores will be open early with hopes you’ll spend your cash there.
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — Police found a man behind the wheel of an SUV who was threatening suicide this morning. That man was said to be armed with a long gun.
Police in Prince William County were called about 7:45 a.m. to a house on Ripple Creek Court in Lake Ridge after a report of a suicidal subject. The man apparently left the house in an SUV prior to police arriving at the scene. According to initial reports, police were informed the man was armed, and they told the man’s wife to remain outside of her home in case he returned.