VDOT tells us they were monitoring the snow all day Tuesday, and that it did not move into the region as soon as they anticipated.
When we spoke with Prince William County Residency Administrator Steven Shannon about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, he told us he had multiple trucks on standby, ready to load salt and go.
Police tell us they chased a man accused of hopping into an idling car in the early morning hours of Monday and stealing it, leading police on a chase through Triangle.
From a press release:
WOODBRIDGE — Students at Colgan High School‘s Fashion Careers Class were looking forward to showing off some of their more avant-garde work made from newspapers, paperclips, and tape.
“I made a two-piece dress with mostly newspaper and Velcro for the backstrap,” said Madisyn Harrison-Dawson, 17, a senior at Colgan High School located near Woodbridge.
The parents of a Haymarket teenager shot and killed by a Prince William police officer are now taking the county to court, with plans to file a wrongful death suit against the department and its leaders.
With every new year come new inventions and discoveries, new risks and areas of opportunities. As even the most private and sensitive areas of our business and personal lives become digitized, new cybersecurity and IT threats arise. IT expert Chris Albright of CMIT Solutions of Centreville considers ransomware, IoT hacking, machine learning, and insufficient IT and cybersecurity to be the largest IT threats of 2018.
Globally, ransomware attacks grew by 56 percent in 2017, with the WannaCry attack being the largest of all time. Ransomware includes any kind of cyberattack in which a business or individual is required to pay a monetary fee in order to regain full access of their computer, breached data or Cloud. There is currently no way around regaining access without paying the ransom — and no guarantee that if you pay, the breached data won’t be compromised once paid. Most ransomware attacks are automated, so it is rare that you currently or will ever be able to determine who is behind your data or computer breach. Payments are often a few hundred dollars paid via cryptocurrency which is extremely difficult to track.
ARLINGTON — At the January meeting of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, Ron Meyer, a Loudoun County Supervisor and NVTC Commissioner tried to lobby the commission to demand a change, or if he had his way, a total abolishment of the new tolls on Interstate 66 inside the Captial Beltway.
We reported Virginia Deputy Transportation Secretary Nick Donohue was placed in the hot seat during this same meeting, where he took questions from many commissioners — some who were angry, and some who were confused over the new tolling system, the way it was rolled out in December, and why tolls shot up to as high as $44 for a one-way trip.
Here is additional info on the Tue-Wed snowfall. Since this event is 24 hrs (or more) from starting, and there are still some uncertainties, changes to the Winter Weather Advisories (across northern MD and eastern WV) are likely. Stay tuned for updates this evening and tonight. pic.twitter.com/rE1Z0LXBmV
— NWS DC/Baltimore (@NWS_BaltWash) January 15, 2018
WOODBRIDGE — One person was shot in the upper body early Monday and was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
From Prince William police:
FREDERICKSBURG — With Virginia’s General Assembly now in session, the Democrats, who nearly clinched a majority in the House of Delegates, rallied Sunday in Fredericksburg calling for a change to the state’s voter laws.
Joshua Cole, who nearly beat Republican Bob Thomas in a recount election for the 28th District in Fredericksburg and Stafford County, spoke at the rally where organizers called for more funding to audit the State Board of Elections to find out why 86 voters in the 28th district were mistakenly given ballots for the neighboring 88th District.
