It’s Rick Horner’s last week here at Potomac Local News
He’s been a reporter for the last four years, covering Stafford County and Fredericksburg. Rick will soon report for the Culpeper Star-Exponent, and I couldn’t be happier for him or more proud.
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Indicted former registrar, struggling to raise funds for a lawyer, appears in Prince William County court — Former Prince William County Registrar Michele White is struggling to raise funds to defend against corruption charges she says are motivated by politics. White, 51, of Occoquan, appeared in Prince William County Circuit Court on Friday for a hearing on the status of her legal counsel. [Insidenova.com]
Data center decisions could have big land use impacts in Virginia’s Prince William County — A growing number of environmental groups and residents have come out against data center development in Prince William County, VA, where they say it would imperil water quality, natural resources and a national battlefield. At the same time, officials in the county continue to approve changes that are paving the way for such projects. [Bay Journal]
I-95 Northbound
Friday – Saturday, 10 p.m. – 7 a.m. Single lane closure.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will join Yesli Vega for a campaign rally.
The campaign told Potomac Local News via email today the rally will occur at 7 p.m. Monday, October 24, at Montclair Tabernacle Church, at 16120 Dumfries Road near Dumfries.
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Updated 3:30 p.m. — Police in Manassas put in nine hours working an active investigation in the 8500 block of Bruton Parish Court near UVA Prince William Medical Center.
Police now tell us they were investigating a suspicious death. Investigators say they didn’t know the cause of death and released no other information.
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Prince William County’s Racial and Social Justice passed two resolutions outlining its concern over to plan to pave over areas next to Manassas National Battlefield to build data centers.
The Board has had a tumultuous past, rarely finding common ground. The resolutions come as the Board of County Supervisors is set to hear the case for the data center project on November 1 and must decide whether to rezone 2,100 acres next to the battlefield for Prince William Digital Gateway. These server farms would help power the internet.
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Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard made the trip from Hawaii to Quantico Marine Corps Base to campaign for Republican Yesli Vega.
Gabbard joined Vega on the stump at her campaign headquarters, at the Quantico Gateway office complex just outside the base Saturday, October 22, 2022. Gabbard outlined why she left the Democratic Party earlier this month and urged voters to round up their friends and head to the polls to cast their ballot for Vega.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in Lake Ridge early Friday morning.
On October 21 at 2:31 a.m., officers initially responded to the Minnieville Road area near Tacketts Mill Drive in Lake Ridge. As officers checked the area, additional reports were received of a shooting on Tumbling Brook Lane near Wood Hollow Drive.
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By Tyler Arnold
(The Center Square) – Although the Virginia Department of Education unveiled new guidelines on transgender issues they say give power back to parents, enforcing those rules in school districts could be a bumpy road.
A short section of Route 1 southbound in Stafford County will be closed overnight on the evenings of Tuesday, October 25, and Wednesday, October 26. Crews are working to widen the road’s shoulders.
VDOT tells Potomac Local News that Route 1 south traffic will be closed to through traffic between the northern and southern intersections with Bells Hill Road, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, ending at 5 a.m. Thursday morning, one lane of Route 1 south will close to traffic from 5-7 a.m. Thursday, October 27.