Stafford, Va. –– Congressman Rob Wittman met with a group of small business owners Friday at a popular Stafford County restaurant as part of his efforts to rally the vote as he takes on Democratic challenger Krystal Ball for Virginia’s 1st congressional seat.
During the meeting, he told attendees that government should relax restrictions placed on small businesses, create a new energy policy that includes nuclear energy and conservation, and to repeal the healthcare overhaul passed last year by congress.
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Dumfries, Va. –– Have you ever heard the one about the civil war soldier in Dumfries who didn’t know his way to Potomac Mills? How about the janitor who’s been dead for years but can still be seen at Dumfries Elementary School?
Those who attended the ghost walk at the Weems-Botts Museum Friday night got an earful of these haunted tales, and got to hear the voices of what are said to be the ghosts of two little girls who live in the Weems-Botts house, captured on audio tape.
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Update 10:30 a.m.
TBD reports the woman who went missing Saturday while boating on the Occoquan River is Julie Shew, of Lorton.
Police are still looking for her body and have not officially released her name, said Fairfax County police spokesman Bud Walker.
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Fairfax County, Va. –– The conditions on the Occoquan River on Saturday that led the disappearance of a 65-year-old woman were unusual, officials say.
Where the water is usually calm, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue spokesman Capt. Willie Bailey said the avid boater and kayaker might have encountered some adverse conditions before she went missing. Read More
Fairfax County, Va. –– Rescue crews are back in the Occoquan River this morning searching for a 65-year-old female boater who went missing yesterday afternoon.
Crews are now searching Fountain Head Regional Park, just up stream from where the woman went missing at Sandy Run Regional Park on the Occoquan River, said Fairfax County Fire and Rescue spokesman Capt. Willie Bailey.
Though crews have not released her name or where the woman is from, Bailey said the woman is an avid boater who was in the water Saturday preparing for a race.
That race was being held Sunday morning while crews were searching the water for her.
The woman’s boat was found capsized in the river, said authorities.
Crews were prepared to search for the woman until sundown.
Prince William police are also assisting the rescue crews, said Bailey.
Woodbridge, Va. –– A 15-year-old girl told police she was inappropriately touched Thursday by a man who offered her a ride to school.
The victim was walking to Freedom High School, at 15201 Neabsco Mills Road in Woodbridge, when a man approached her and said he would give her a ride, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
When the female got into the car, the man inappropriately touched her. Read More
Dumfries, Va. –– Friday wasn’t the first time this week someone was hit at the Dumfries commuter parking lot on Va. 234.
After a 38-year-old man was struck and killed there Friday morning, now word comes that Jeremiah Boenisch, a U.S. Air Force Airman who had just gotten off of an OmniRide commuter bus after a day of work at the Pentagon, was hit by a car at the lot about 6 p.m. Tuesday.
He was walking past the entrance of the lot that faces Va. 234 when a car pulled into the lot from the busy six-lane road and then hit him in the knee, injuring the Medial Collateral Ligament.
“The guy stopped and got out of the car and told me the sun was in his eyes and he couldn’t see me,” said Boenisch. Read More
Update Saturday Noon
Investigators now say the death of 18-year-old Wyatt Campbell is now being investigated as a homicide.
Campbell walked into a Springfield area health clinic about 10:30 p.m. Thursday and then died from apparent bodily trauma about a half hour later.
The victim lived in the 6100 block of Rose Hill Drive in Alexandria.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call Fairfax County Crime Solvers at 703-691-3131, or visit fairfaxcrimesolvers.org. Read More
Widewater, Va. –– There’s a lot of talk right now about a new Virginia Railway Express station in Stafford County.
If it’s built, it’ll be located in the Widewater Peninsula, in the northern portion of the county on the Potomac River.
But as the Free-Lance Star’s Jonas Beals reports there seems to be some disagreement on what to call the new station.
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Correction: Police said the driver of a white box truck in which investigators believe struck a pedestrian who died this morning at a commuter lot on Va. 234 in Dumfries may have done so without knowing he struck the victim. Police are still looking for the driver, whom they believe could provide investigators more information on the crash.
Update 11: 20 a.m. – Police said Va. 234 near Dumfries has been reopened in both directions following a pedestrian being struck and killed there this morning.
Update 9:30 a.m.
A 38-year-old man was struck and killed this morning as he tried to cross Va. 234 in Dumfries.
It happened at 6:40 a.m., at the commuter lot at the intersection of Va. 234 and U.S. 1., police said.
Police said the man walked across the road, where there is no cross walk, and was hit by a 1999 Dodge Ram truck driven by a 47-year-old man. That man stayed on the scene of the crash and has not been charged.
Investigators also suspect an older model box truck also hit the victim at the same time as the Ram truck, or shortly thereafter, and then fled the scene, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok. Read More
Lake Ridge, Va. –– Police said one man resisted arrest Tuesday, got into a scuffle with police and was later found to have narcotics on him.
Officers stopped a car in the area of Plymouth Court and Mayflower Drive, off Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge, about 7:52 p.m.
When officers went to arrest the driver, he “actively resisted and a struggle ensued,” said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Police were able to arrest him and then slapped him with a number of charges.
Tyrone Demond Chisolm, 34, of 2079 Mayflower Drive, is charged with assault and battery on a law enforcement officer, with obstruction of justice, possession of a schedule II narcotic and with possession of marijuana, said Perok.
He was held on a $5,000 bond, and his court date was not released.
Police did not say why they initially stopped the man.
