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Today is the first day of the 70th Annual Prince William County Fair.
The fair gates open at 5 p.m. Friday, and there will be plenty of activities for the whole family to enjoy.
STAFFORD COUNTY — Two women remain hospitalized after they were shot in Stafford County in separate incidents.
An unidentified female remains in a hospital after she was shot on Saturday, August 3 at a home on New Hope Church Road in White Oak.
LAKE RIDGE — Ruth Anderson is standing behind her call to name a new park after the late Michele McQuigg, a longtime public servant who came under fire when she opposed same-sex marriage.
The Prince William County Park Commission last month decided to go back the drawing board when it comes to naming the 15-acre park at the corner of Old Bridge Road and Oakwood Drive in Lake Ridge. It was asked to make a recommendation on whether or not McQuigg’s name should be used for the park.
WOODBRIDGE — Julius Rogers can go back to work.
OmniRide operators and their union reached a collective bargaining agreement on Monday effectively ended a four-day worker strike at the transit operator.
MANASSAS PARK — Manassas Park officials are bucking a regional trend of doing not requiring its residents to post decals on their vehicle windshields.
After doing away with them in 2017, the city will once again require residents to pay for the stickers that prove they paid their city taxes, and are a city resident.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Residents got a look at new plans for the Rural Crescent.
The 117,000-acre landmass in Prince William County, stretching from Quantico Marine Corps Base to Manassas National Battlefield, has been the topic of a years’ long debate over how to best develop the land.
STAFFORD — David Decatur is seeking a second term as Stafford County Sheriff.
With the Republican nomination, the 33-year veteran of the Stafford sheriff’s office is hanging his hat on his experience, community involvement, and work to improve pay and recruit new deputies to the force.
STAFFORD — Danielle Sullivan has been driving a Stafford County school bus for the past five years.
“They don’t talk about this stuff in training,” she said.
MANASSAS — It’s not the first time Mohaned Zyoud has been in trouble with the law, court records show.
He’s now charged with attempted malicious wounding after police said he towed a car from the 15600 block of Jefferson Davis Highway, near Koons Automotive, at 9 p.m. Thursday, July 18.
WOODBRIDGE — The mission at Virginia Railway Express is clear: Get more people onto its trains.
Ridership on Virginia’s only commuter railroad remains flat over the past eight years, and that has officials inside VRE ringing alarm bells.
