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MANASSAS, Va. — Megan Devine says she was never one of those “rich kids” who didn’t have to worry about paying for college.
The 28-year-old is a research assistant at George Mason University put herself through school in her home state of Illinois, and did well by finishing her required undergraduate coursework by the end of her junior year. Though she finished work for her undergraduate degree during her junior year she still had to take elective classes her senior year.
DALE CITY, Va. — An assistant coach with a youth hockey league in Prince William County is out of a job and now faces charges.
Police say Wayne E. Walczak, 55, of Woodbridge, was charged on June 14 with misdemeanor assault and battery after he shoved a 14-year-old male following a hockey game at the Prince William Ice Center on Dale Boulevard in Dale City.
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STAFFORD, Va. — Kristine Stewart and her two children watched as six Marines pulled her husband’s flag-draped casket from a hearse.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A new Virginia Railway Express station in Prince William County, and improvements to two stations in Stafford County are coming thanks, in part, to a private developer building the Potomac Shores neighborhood near Dumfries.
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NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — The quiet and serene beauty of the confluence of the Potomac River and Aquia Creek will soon be changed with the construction of a new state park.
COLONIAL BEACH, Va. — It’s a warm summer day. The boardwalk is bustling with activity.
FALMOUTH, Va. — There is a now a plan to improve the parking lot at the Historic Port of Falmouth Park, and with it restrict access to a popular beach on the Rappahannock River.
The proposed plan, with an overall $230,000 price tag, calls for building a split rail a fence in the park near the river shoreline. It’ll mean removing a fence and gate that now that sits at the park’s entrance on River Road.
