Author: Tayah Frye
As we pass the mid-point of this General Assembly session, many bills are moving.
After a 30-minute debate, the Senate approved my bill prohibiting the use of electronic textbooks in public schools without a plan to provide school broadband and digital devices to every student required to use an electronic textbook.
One of the 12 Centennial Challenge grants has been awarded to Manassas National Battlefield Park.
The Centennial Challenge is a nation-wide effort of the National Park Service to provide funding for park projects and programs in conjunction with park partner organizations, explained the chief of interpretation and cultural resources management Ray Brown.
A four-month-old girl was violently shook by the accused, according to police.
She was taken to a local hospital for serious, non-life threatening injuries.
A 46-year-old man of Manassas was involved in an armed robbery when two unknown men removed two cell phones and an undisclosed amount of money from his pockets.
According to police, the suspects then fled the area on foot.
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The fifth week of the General Assembly Session brought some long days and nights as we rushed to complete work on bills before our mid-session deadline called “Crossover.”
First the Senate passed legislation to plug a hole in the Northern Virginia 2.1% regional gas tax that is used to fund transit. This legislation was the top priority for Fairfax, Prince William and Stafford Counties. It now goes on to an uncertain future in the House of Delegates, but without the legislation, localities will be under even more pressure to raise real estate taxes if we expect to maintain the same level of transit service.
A local Woodbridge man has been arrested and charged with distribution of cocaine.
He is charged with two counts of distribution of a schedule I or II narcotic, according to police.
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Arrested on February 12:
Lucia Gonzalez ALFARO, 32, of the 15000 block of Sunny Ridge Cir in Woodbridge
Charged with 3 counts of felony child neglect
Court Date: Pending | Bond: $5,000 secured