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The occupants of a home in northern Stafford County got an unsuspected knock on the door from the Stafford sheriff’s office today.
Deputies were sent to a home near the intersection of Telegraph Road and Brentsmill Drive in the Widewater area.
Guns are welcome in Stafford County Government buildings and parks.
The Board of Supervisors resolved to not pass any new ordinances banning guns during its meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. The move comes nine months after the Board of Supervisors declared the county a 2nd-Amendment sanctuary, where the rights of gun-owning residents afforded to them by the U.S. Constitution would be protected.
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The suspect in a series of carjackings in the Manassas area is now in custody. Prince William police said a man carjacked another vehicle in the Manassas area today and fled into Fairfax County where he was arrested. The arrest comes after a woman was carjacked in Prince William County yesterday while waiting for roadside assistance to fix a flat tire.
The body of Brandon Childs, 40, of Spotsylvania County, was found in the Rappahannock River.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries reports the body was found about 1:30 p.m. at Fox Spring Bend in Stafford County, about eight miles downstream of City Dock in Fredericksburg.
While school buildings in Prince William Count are closed to students, the county’s parks and recreation division will offer a daycare program for children outside Manassas, and in Woodbridge.
Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega writes to her constituents:
Prince William County Public Schools students will be headed back to class virtually on September 8, but athletes who play scholastic won’t return to the field.
Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega writes to her constituents:
The majority of people who have died of the coronavirus were already suffering from poor health.
Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega writes to her constituents:
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Route 17 is now open to traffic, the Virginia Department of Transportation tells us.
Stafford County leaders are exploring the possibility of charging users of two popular riverside parks $10 per car to enter the parks.
This summer, parking lots at Historic Port of Falmouth Park on the Rappahannock River, and Aquia Landing on the Potomac River have been full. While many put off summer vacations to beach destinations because of the coronavirus, locally, the beaches have been packed with users.
Police continue to seek leads on a case that involved a stabbing outside of a 7-Eleven store in Manassas.
Police tell us:
