WOODBRIDGE, Va. – Police say a Baptist pastor has resigned from his church and now faces sex charge

A 17-year-old female told police that she and the pastor shared several consensual sexual encounters in April, but that the two began a close friendship in Sept. 2007, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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MOUNT VERNON, Va. – Traffic congestion may force some of the 20,000 federal employees that are expected in the region next year because of BRAC to stay away. One local business group aims to convince them otherwise.

BRAC, the military’s acronym for base realignment and closure, authorized in 2005 by congress, will force the relocation of the tens of thousands of federal and military employees to Ft. Belvoir Army Base and Quantico Marine Corps Base.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. – Virginia Railway Express’ new express train was delayed during it inaugural run Monday.

The train left the Fredericksburg station on time at 5:15 a.m., but then hit delays in Stafford County and into Woodbridge, said VRE Board Chair Paul Milde.


Traffic

The Army is interested in purchasing surplus rail equipment from Virginia Railway Express.

According to a Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation spokesman, the Army plans to transport soldiers from Ft. AP Hill in Bowling Green to Ft. Lee in Petersburg twice a week for 37 weeks each year, and they want to do it by rail.


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AQUIA LANDING, Va. ­­– The crews of the S.S. Songer and the Cardboard Speed Boat battled it out in contest of speed, rowing strength and cardboard boating know how.

At the start of the race Saturday, the pilots of the two homemade cardboard boats, along with a fleet of others, jumped into their crafts and started paddling with their oars.


DUMFRIES, Va. – A bicyclist was shot in the leg early Saturday in Dumfries.

Police said the male victim was riding in the area of Port O Dumfries on Graham Park Road when three men approached him and threatened to drag him into the woods, said Prince William police spokesman Mark Merriman.


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