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Woodbridge’s original hot chicken shop is hanging a new name on the building.
Prince William County police on Monday identified the driver who died after an Aug. 27 crash in Haymarket. Tyler Paul Graybill, 18, of Haymarket, ran a stop sign at Dominion Valley Drive and Waverly Farm Drive, struck trees, and was later pronounced dead. Speed is believed to have been a factor.
The county’s daily report also includes an armed robbery Friday night at the AutoZone on Cape Cod Court in Woodbridge, a shots-fired call that left a home struck on Royal Court, and a driver accused of brandishing a gun on Richmond Highway.
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Prince William County planning staff is recommending approval of Potomac Lofts, a 130-unit condominium project on the vacant Kaiser Permanente clinic at 14139 Potomac Mills Road. The Planning Commission is scheduled to hear rezoning case REZ2025-00030 on Sept. 9.
A Spotsylvania jury convicted a man of second-degree murder in a teen’s death, Virginia received an overall “C” on a new infrastructure report card, Stafford County set its 25th-anniversary 9/11 ceremony, and ARTfactory will stage “Hairspray” at the Hylton Performing Arts Center.
A Spotsylvania County jury convicted Tyler Butler of second-degree murder Thursday in the May 3, 2025, shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Bosworth, a Massaponax High School senior, the Fredericksburg Free Press reported. After a three-day trial in Circuit Court, the jury also found Butler guilty of attempted second-degree murder, malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. A charge of maliciously shooting at an occupied dwelling was reduced to unlawfully shooting after two other homes in the River Club subdivision were struck by gunfire.
Dominion Energy says there were no major outages in Fairfax or Prince William counties on Friday. A system glitch made it look like thousands of customers were dark, including a false reading of 13,450 out in Fairfax, Woodbridge and Warrenton, according to Northern Virginia spokeswoman Aisha Khan.
“We had no major outages in Fairfax and Prince William Counties yesterday. However, we did have a glitch within the system that made it look like we had large outages in Fairfax, Woodbridge and Warrenton (13,450),” Khan wrote Saturday in response to questions from Potomac Local News.
Town Council honored Officer Justin Hendrickson on Tuesday for stopping at a catastrophic Interstate 95 crash while off duty, helping pull people from a burning vehicle, and giving first aid until fire-rescue crews arrived.
The May 29, 2026, southbound crash in Stafford occurred about 2:30 a.m. and killed five people and injured more than 30. Hendrickson, hired by the Occoquan Police Department in September 2022, was heading home after a shift when he came upon the scene.
The same roundup includes the arrest of a man charged in an August 19 sexual assault near Sudley Road in Manassas, and the arrest of a Manassas Park High School teacher accused of being intoxicated on school grounds Thursday morning.
Police also reported a man charged with assaulting an officer at the adult detention center after a disturbance near Potomac Mills Road, and a teen’s arrest in a Woodbridge smoke shop burglary. In Stafford County, deputies reported a public intoxication arrest and two fraud reports.
Manassas will advertise and hold a public hearing on the Mathis Avenue streetscape after four residents asked for one on the last day they could.
Planning and Community Development Director and Assistant City Manager Matthew Arcieri said Wednesday that former City Council member Lynn Forkell Greene’s request triggered the meeting. Greene is running again this fall as an independent for one of three open council seats on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Police charged men from Woodbridge, Manassas and Stafford in an undercover child-exploitation operation, a Fairfax patient committed after killing his landlord left the country on a weekend pass, and Stafford officials said next year’s budget will be especially tight.
According to FOX 5 DC, police arrested nine men ages 21 to 48 in an undercover operation targeting suspects who initiated sexually explicit online conversations they believed were with minors. Detectives said most of the men traveled expecting a sexual encounter with a child and instead were met by investigators. The nine suspects face a combined 20 criminal charges, including solicitation of a minor, procuring a minor for prostitution and attempted indecent liberties.
