News

Dino Days
Date:  Friday, June 3, 2011
Time:  11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location:  Visitor Center
Description:  Walk in the footsteps of the dinosaurs! Come to the Visitor Center to excavate fossils, try to out run a T-Rex, and design your own dinosaur. Fee is $2/person, $6/family

Kids Fishing Tournament
Date:  Saturday June 4, 2011
Time:  9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location:  Marina in lot #1
Description:  Join us in our kids fishing tournament and see what you can catch. There is some fishing equipment that participants can borrow, but we encourage folks to bring their own. There are several volunteers on hand to give participants help. Sponsored by the Friends of Leesylvania State Park.


News

It’s not as if VRE riders are fleeing for their lives –– though it may look like it to the average bystander ––they’re actually running to their cars to be one of the first to pull out of the parking lot, skirting a line of drivers who eventually must wait to exit the lot.

It’s become such an issue at VRE’s Brooke station in Stafford County that a rider talked about it this week during a live web chat with VRE CEO Dale Zehner.


Prince William

Winston-Salem N.C. –– The Potomac Nationals snapped their 11-game losing streak Thursday night in Winston-Salem with an 8-5 victory over the Dash.

Fittingly, the streak snapper was dramatic: the game featured two ties, three lead changes and a bench-clearing fracas on the field. In the end, the Nationals held on to salvage the series finale and stop their season worst losing slide.


Business

Woodbridge, Va. –– A new retail shop set to open at Potomac Mills mall will be the first of its kind in the Washington area.

This article is FREE to read. Please Sign In or Create a FREE Account. Thank you.


Prince William

Police say she knowingly allowed a gunman to enter the store and steal cash.

Officers were called to the Rite Aid at 4423 Fortuna Center Plaza at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, after it had closed for the night, where a 23-year-old and 24-year-old woman told police a masked man initially entered the store, brandished a handgun and demanded money.


Prince William

The P-Nats have now lost 11 straight games and suffered a walkoff loss for the second consecutive night in Winston.

Andy Wilkins sprinted home from third to score the winning run; his heated at-bat finished with a walk to open the tenth. Josh Smoker, who had pitched a perfect ninth inning to send the game to extra innings, began his delivery home to open the bottom of the tenth. Wilkins called for time late and had it granted by home plate umpire Asa Gaddy. Smoker’s next pitch was high and inside to Wilkins, and the two barked and glared at one another.


News

The male teacher had turned his back to the class while using a whiteboard, and the student who has been charged with possessing the BB gun pulled it from his backpack, said Stafford County Public Schools spokeswoman Valerie Cottongim.

Original Post 10:41 a.m.
Stafford, Va. ––
A student from Brooke Pointe High School is facing charges after another student was shot with a BB gun.


News

The United States is about to unveil a new cyber strategy that will treat cyberspace as another domain of warfare, similar to land, sea and air.  As first reported in The Wall Street Journal on May 31, the U.S. will draw upon all the elements of national power to respond to a cyber attack.

As first reported in The Wall Street Journal on May 31, the US will draw upon all the elements of national power to respond to a cyber attack.  This is an important step in the evolution of our cyber doctrine.is an important step in the evolution of our cyber doctrine.  When strategists first began to deal with how we would respond to a cyber attack, many assumed we would do so within the cyber realm.  The new strategy indicates that the U.S. would not hesitate to “take the gloves off” by broadening our response options to such an attack.


View More Stories