11:30 a.m. Update
Quantico, Va. – The coal train that derailed Thursday at Quantico has spurred cancellations and delays for most of the east coast.
Thousands of Amtrak passengers were left stranded overnight as crews worked to clean up the seven coal cars that toppled over about 3 p.m. Thursday. Read More
4:25 p.m. Update
Virginia Railway Express officials are using buses to get people home after a coal train derailed at Quantico.
Trains are being stopped at the Franconia-Springfield station, and passengers are being unloaded and moved onto buses, said VRE spokesman Mark Roeber. Read More
A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for Stafford, Prince William and Fairfax counties.
A lines of severe thunderstorms were approaching in the area, all capable of producing winds of 60 mph, hail and heavy rains.
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A Woodbridge man who admitted downloading and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors say Dennis Craig Bell, 55, was a U.S. Capitol Police officer when on Dec. 14, 2009 he used a peer-to-peer internet connection to share pornographic images depicting children. Read More
It is going to be a hot day across the Potomac communities.
The area is under a heat advisory today from the National Weather Service today, where were told to expect temperatures that feel like 100 to 105 degrees.
Those triple-digit temperatures are actually the heat index values forecasted today between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. The actual temperatures are forecasted to reach the upper 90s today, the weather service stated.
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Some people in need got a generous donation of food, prompting a local charity to celebrate.
A tractor-trailer pulled into the ACTS food pantry in Dumfries on July 29 loaded with 20 pallets of non-perishable food. Read More
Woodbridge, Va. – Belvoir Federal Credit Union will end its partnership with three Woodbridge area schools.
Branches of the credit union had been set up at Gar-Field and Woodbridge high schools, and Godwin and Woodbridge middle schools, under a partnership between the credit union and Prince William public schools. Read More
The region is under a severe thunderstorm warning from the National Weather Service.
At 7:55 p.m., the weather service spotted a line of potentially damaging storms moving from the northwest to the southeast.
The areas in the line of this storm include: Woodbridge, Dumfries, Montclair, Aquia Creek and Stafford.
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Fairfax County, Va. – Police say a Maryland man accidentally drowned last weekend in the Potomac River.
An investigation was launched when the body of 46-year-old Kenneth E. Huggins, of Suitland, Md. was found Sunday after a 911 call reported him missing the day before. Read More
Stafford County, Va. - One man faces murder charges in the death of a Stafford County antique store owner.
Stafford County detectives traveled to the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center in Winchester on Tuesday night and served an arrest warrant for 63-year-old Julian Lee “Buzz” Burke, who was already in jail on a first-degree murder charge from an incident that took place in Fauquier County in November 2009, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
