Raymond Elkins owns a AAA towing shop in Springfield, and last week came to a job fair at Stratford University at Potomac Mills.
He’s looking for 10 people who can not only change a battery and help stranded motorists, but also for someone who can deliver customer service with a smile.
Police say a man walked into the bank in the Ashdale Plaza near Interstate 95 at 2:19 p.m., threatened a clerk with a hammer and demanded money. He got it and then fled the scene.
No one was injured and police have now deployed K9 units and a helicopter to search for the intruder.
Flames broke out at 44 Joshua Road in North Stafford, just off Garrisonville Road (Va. 610).
Two adults and one child were inside the house when it caught fire, and all of them managed to escape the burning house without injury, said Stafford fire and rescue spokesman Mark Doyle.
There is something welcoming about knowing I won’t have to put on layer upon layer of clothing if I need to run outside to my car to get something, or take our small dog for a walk.
While summers in the Potomac Communities are always humid and sticky, you can always take a dip in one of the many swimming pools, lakes and rivers, or you can choose to take a short ride to one of several beaches on the Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia seashores.
A Stafford sheriff’s deputy traveling south on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) saw an SUV headed in the opposite direction traveling at a high rate of speed. The deputy flipped on his emergency lights and began pursuit.
The deputy pulled up behind the truck and told his dispatch center he was pursuing gray Chevrolet Silverado with Oklahoma license plates traveling at 69 mph, said Stafford Sheriff’s Maj. David Decatur.
Potomac Point Winery opened in 2007, the brain child of Cindy and Skip Causey who both have long called Stafford’s Widewater area home.
The winery now offers at least 15 different varieties of wines, some of which area seasonal their availabilities depend on weather conditions. In addition to the Mediterranean-inspired building where all of their wine is made, the winery is surrounded by a vineyard that produces grapes used in all of the wines made here.
Officers were called to the 14800 block of Cloverdale Road in Dale City at 4:29 p.m. Friday to take custody of a dog. Police did not say why they were trying to take the dog nor did they say what breed it was.
But the dog’s owner became combative, and officers then tried to arrest her. She resisted and then burned one of the officers with a lit cigarette, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Occoquan, Va. –– What can you talk about in six minutes? A lot.
Dumfries, Va. –– The Boys and Girls Club in Dumfries is ready to reopen its doors for the first time in more than two years.
On Monday, the facility was set to welcome 27 children into a nine-week summer camp, which offers children access to the gym, basketball courts, game rooms and computers. Children will also enjoy a field trip once per week.
Yasmine Deleon, of Stafford, was killed after the horse she was riding in a field off Mt. Olive Road was “spooked” and then ran into the street, where the horse and the girl was hit by an oncoming Kia Sorrento.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler the horse died at the scene when it was hit head-on by the Kia, driven by a 40-year-old woman.
