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.
A head-on crash has forced the closure of U.S. 1 in Triangle.
Just before 4:30 p.m., a Ford F-150 collided with a sports car just south of the Marine Corps Museum. Fire and rescue units were called, but it appears no one was seriously hurt.
Trying to skirt a traffic back-up on Interstate 95 didn’t pay for a Fairfax woman.
When the 28-year-old female driver of a tan sedan tried to bail out of heavy traffic on the southbound lanes in Woodbridge she hit a ditch and got stuck after sometime after 2 p.m. Friday.
Gloria Jean Parker-May felt thought Friday morning’s earthquake was something else.
“Right about 5 a.m. I thought I was dreaming, and then wondering why such a big truck would be driving through the neighborhood,” said May about the feeling the quake. “So that explains why the bed was shaking.”
With the hot weather hanging around there are still plenty of cool things to do this weekend.
North Stafford Car Show
David Watson’s career as an electrical engineer in the Navy may have not prepared him for building cardboard boats, but he likes doing it.
Watson’s labor of love is for Rock Hill Ruitan Club’s Cardboard Boat Regatta, scheduled tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Aquia Landing Park in Stafford County. (more…)
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck the Washington region about 5 a.m. Friday.
The quake was reported to 10 miles northwest of Rockville, Md. and 15 east of Leesburg, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The mobile device was stolen between June 18 and 19, from a car parked at the home of a county employee.
Officials reported the theft for the first time Thursday morning.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – A five-lane portion of the Capital Beltway will be reduced to four lanes tomorrow.
The Virginia Department of Transportation calls it a lane shift, and it will take place three-quarters of a mile before Va. 620 (Braddock Road). The new lane configuration will be in place until late December and comes as part of the Beltway High Occupancy Vehicle lanes project.
Virginia officials have partnered leaders in North Carolina to bring high-speed rail to both states.
The Virginia – North Carolina High Speed Rail compact, authorized by congress, will look at constructing a high-speed rail corridor between Washington and Charlotte, N.C. that could cost as much as $4.15 billion, according to a Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation spokesman.
