A robber used a hammer to strike a 17-year-old girl, an employee of a dollar store near Manassas.
On Tuesday, January 13, at 12:38 p.m., police went to the Dollar and Gift store at 7630 Streamwalk Lane, near Interstate 66 and Sudley Road, to investigate a robbery. They learned a man entered the store and approached the counter where the two employees, a 17-year-old girl, and a 25-year-old woman, stood.
Today, line crews spent the morning stocking trucks preparing for the storm at a Dominion Energy office on Warrenton Road in south Stafford.
One driver couldn’t buy as much fuel as he bargained for, while others packed this gas station on Route 3 in Spotsylvania County to fill up ahead of the incoming winter storm.
Fredericksburg street crews removed the last remaining signs in the city showing the name of the Civil War-era president of the confederacy. The city renamed its portion of the 200-mile Virginia highway that links Washington, D.C. with North Carolina, Emancipation Highway.
Street crews began working to replace the old signs with new signs showing the street’s new name, at several key intersections, at 11 p.m. Thursday. Several street signs at multiple smaller intersections had already been replaced.
Teachers begin bargaining: Just as students return from winter break, the push for collective bargaining rights for Prince William County Public Schools employees is beginning. [Insidenova.com]
Coronavirus field hospital established: Mary Washington Healthcare has shifted into its “crisis standard of care,”…the health care system also is activating a backup plan officials never wanted to have to implement. [Fredericksburg.com]
The investigation revealed that the accused stole the ambulance from the Kaiser Permanente Woodbridge Medical Center located on Potomac Mills Road, across the Potomac Mills mall, and traveled westbound on Minnieville Road. He collided with a BMW 325i.
The accused was transported to an area hospital to treat non-life-threatening injuries before being released to police custody. While investigating, officers determined the suspect was intoxicated and driving on a revoked license.
Forecasted to arrive during the afternoon on Sunday, January 16, a major winter storm has our area in its sights for a second time in as many weeks.
The forecast will be tricky, forecasters say, as our area is on the line where cold air will battle it out with warmer air, changing snow to rain and lowering snowfall totals.
Does he or doesn’t he?: Prince William County Gainesville District Supervisor Pete Candland has come under attack from opponents of the PW Digital Gateway who are accusing him of publicly opposing the plan while privately urging neighbors to support it. [Insidenova.com]
School Board organizes: The Stafford County School Board unanimously elected its new chair and vice-chair during the January 11, 2022 annual organizational school board meeting. [Press release]
Stafford County Delegate Tara Durant (R-28) helped deliver the response to Gov. Ralph Northam’s final State of the Commonwealth Address on Wednesday night.
Durant joined Senator Todd E. Pillion, from southwest Virginia to deliver the remarks.
A sheriff’s deputy in the right place at the right time stopped the driver of a speeding Lamborghini and charged the driver with DUI.
On Tuesday, January 11 at 7:49 p.m., a Stafford sheriff’s deputy was leaving the Rappahannock Regional Jail after dropping off someone charged with DUI when she received information about a possible intoxicated driver in the area.
