You normally don’t see too many large, bronze crucifixes along the roadside.
But one sits on U.S. 1 in Stafford County. It marks the first time in Virginia that all religions were tolerated and allowed to live in the same region of the commonwealth.
UPDATE: The police officer involved in a crash in Woodbridge on Tuesday was headed to help someone.
The officer driving the cruiser had its lights and siren activated and was responding to a call when it collided with another vehicle about 5 p.m., at Rosedale Court and U.S. 1, in front of the Prince William Plaza shopping center, a police spokesman said.
Questions are mounting about the widening of U.S. 1 between Stafford and Prince William counties. And they’re coming before an influx of federal workers is expected to relocate to Quantico Marine Corps Base in 2011.
The road is currently being widened from four to six lanes in Triangle, between Joplin and Brady’s Hill roads, as part of the planned Triangle Village near the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Improvements to the small stretch of road are being paid for by Prince William County taxpayers.
After search and rescue teams mounted a search this morning near the woman’ s home in the 2600 block of Arlington Drive, just six miles north of Ft. Belvoir, they found her at the end of her street, according to Fairfax police.
Police were concerned because the woman has a medical condition and had not been seen since Sunday afternoon. (more…)
A Dale City man brings new meaning to the term “hammer out your problems.”
Police on Wednesday were called to the 14000 block of Fallbrook Lane after two men got into an argument. Once it got heated, one man struck the other in the shoulder with a hammer, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Renee Shelly lives in Stafford and is married to a Prince William County Police officer.
At 7-years-old, Lacee says she really liked the bunnies at the petting zoo at the Occoquan River Festival on Saturday. She picked them over the ducks, ponies and goats that also filled the pens at the temporary zoo erected on Mill Street, the town’s main drag.
“I really like them because they are so soft. I think a pet goat would be too much trouble and I don’t think there is a cage big enough for the goats,” said Lacee.
Fredericksburg line train 309, coming from Fredericksburg to Washington’s Union Station, was late making it back to pickup passengers for its 5:15 p.m. departure from the Washington rail hub.
After completing it’s midday run as train 301, which left Union Station at 12:55 p.m., the train encountered problems on its return trip south of Franconia, said VRE spokeswoman April Maguigad.
When members of the Dale City Volunteer Fire Department died, Chico Marrero worked with Assistant Chief Carl Persing to make plaques and memorials for their fellow fallen fire fighters and EMTs.
One man is out to raise $30,000 for unborn children.
Jonathan Arehart, CEO of Cavendo Corporation in Manassas, was picked by a local chapter of the March of Dimes to lead a fund raising and awareness effort for the March for Babies, a major fundraiser for the organization.
