Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Target store at Stafford Marketplace off Va. 610 in North Stafford at 3:09 p.m. Wednesday, after the store’s loss prevention officer reported seeing a man place a Bose surround sound system in his cart and head to the back of the store.

The same man fit the description of someone who just two days earlier at a Target store in south Stafford put a Bose system in his cart, and left with it through a rear employee entrance. The man placed it in a white Ford Ranger pickup with a ladder rack and left, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.


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Dumfries, Va. — There are several events taking place in and around the Potomac Communities to commemorate Black History Month this February.

African American cemetery discovered
The Weems-Botts Museum in Dumfries has a report from an archeological investigation that of a nearby African American cemetery, recently located behind Dumfries Elementary School. The cemetery was not found until school officials explored the possibility of expanding the parking lot there, said Prince William and Manassas, Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau spokeswoman Jennifer Buske.


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Prince William County, Va. — Democratic leaders in congress have urged Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to get on board and oppose a series of new transportation bills they say will hurt the commonwealth.

Representatives Gerry Connolly, Jim Moran, and Bobby Scott of Virginia penned a letter to McDonnell on Wednesday stating three bills advancing in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 3408, H.R. 3813, and H.R. 7, would all work to funnel away federal highway funds, funds for mass transit, as well as money to mitigate and improve air quality, according to the congressmen.


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