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Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam is visiting area schools today in Prince William and Stafford counties, and in Manassas Park.
The visits in Prince William and Stafford counties are closed to the press.
The ground has been broken for a new $40 million public safety center in Manassas.
Elected officials joined chiefs from the city’s police and fire departments to lead a ceremony marking the start of construction for the a new facility on Grant Avenue, just outside of the city’s historic district.
Police on Saturday, September 19 arrested a suspect sought in connection to a sexual assault that was reported to have occurred at a residence in Woodbridge.
On September 17 at 12:36 p.m., officers learned the victim, a 17-year-old female, told police that earlier that morning she awoke to an acquaintance standing over her. The accused refused to leave the residence and began inappropriately touching the victim, police said.
Poilce are looking for a man they say fired a gun at a moving vehicle.
at 1 p.m. Sunday, September 20 officers were called to investigate a shooting that was reported to have occurred in the 17100 block of Dumfries Road earlier that morning.
A suspect wanted in Pennsylvania was arrested after providing false identification during a traffic accident investigation on Sunday.
On September 20, Deputy S.C. Martin was called to an auto accident on Jefferson Davis Highway near Woodstock Lane near Taylor’s Grocery.
Germanna Community College’s enrollment is climbing despite the pandemic.
Enrollment is up 4.24% for the fall compared to the same date in 2019, the college reports.Germanna began bucking the national trend with a 25% surge in summer enrollment.
Early voting is underway across the state, and in our region, thousands have already went to the polls to cast their ballots.
In Prince William County, nearly 3,300 people cast their ballots over Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19, respectively. The county’s office of elections has polling places set up at
Public libraries in the Fredericksburg region are set to reopen to the public, in an limited capacity, on November 11.
But county leaders in Stafford are asking why the Central Rappahannock Regional Library system hasn’t already done so, similar to libraries in neighboring counties. There’s also a discussion about whether or not Stafford would be better off operating its own library system.
Many schools in our region plan to return to some form of in-person learning in late October or early November.
Some parents and teachers across the region say a return to in-person learning is needed now to benefit students.
A Stafford woman faces felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and child neglect charges in the death of an infant.
On November 12, 2019 at 4:57 p.m. the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office and fire and rescue department were called to an address on Spinnaker Way for a 4-month-old boy that was not breathing. The infant was taken to Stafford Hospital and later flown to VCU Medical Center in Richmond for treatment.
