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Here’s a look at today’s coronavirus hospitalization report.
Prince William Health District
A Stafford woman told law enforcement authorities she hired a cleaning company to come into her home and later found a tote bag containing two sets of wedding rings were missing.
The victim reported the theft to police on Friday, November 13, according to the Staford County Sheriff’s Office. The cleaning company was inside the victim’s home on November 12, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Community Feeding Taskforce Food Hotline has an urgent need for Spanish-speaking volunteers who can assist staff on weekday afternoons with answering calls to the hotline during the pandemic.
Duties include answering calls from those in need of food, redirecting callers to a food pantry closest to where they live and arranging home deliveries for shut-ins. Training is provided; however, volunteers will work from home and must have their own computer and Internet access.
Here’s a look at today’s coronavirus hospitalization report.
Prince William Health District
Prince William police will be out in force this Thanksgiving holiday weekend checking drivers and their passengers have buckled up. This year’s “Click It or Ticket” seatbelt enforcement campaign, which runs through Sunday, Nov. 29.
Police included more details in a press release.
Speeding is not a problem on Cardinal Drive in Woodbridge, where a woman was struck and later died after walking her dog on May 1.
The victim, Deborah Lynn Talbot, 50, died two days later at an area hospital. A suspect, 19-year-old Cierra Dickerson, is charged with racing, a form of reckless driving, is scheduled to have a jury trial on February 8, 2021.
The cost to defend the five Democrats on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors now sits at $96,000.
Taxpayers have racked up those charges as the county hired multiple attorneys to defend the sitting supervisors after they were named in a lawsuit alleging they violated Virginia’s sunshine law by attending a public meeting on May 31 without notifying the public.
Prince William County Supervisors voted to extend the deadline for residents to pay their property taxes.
During a meeting on Nov. 17, 2020, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors passed a resolution extending the payment deadline for real estate taxes for the second-half of 2020 for 60 days, changing the deadline from Dec. 5, 2020, to Feb. 3, 2021. The extension applies to both commercial and residential real property.
Prince William police are searching for a suspect in a road rage incident that occurred just outside Manassas.
Brandishing | Road Rage Related – On November 18 at 8:20AM, officers responded to investigate a brandishing that was reported to have occurred near the intersection of Prince William Pkwy. and Liberia Ave. in Manassas (20111) earlier that morning. The victim, a 27-year-old man, reported to police that while traveling on Dumfries Rd. he observed two vehicles driving erratically. The victim proceeded past the two vehicles before reencountering them at the above intersection where two occupants of one of the vehicles, a GMC Yukon, approached the victim’s vehicle while brandishing a firearm.
Central Library in Manassas is once again open to the public after closing earlier this year for renovations.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to mark the reopening earlier this week. Prince William County Public Libraries posted a press release about the event.
