There’s a lot of hope in the newly approved budget put forward Thursday night by the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission.
Hope that Prince William County will magically find $6 million to help make up some of an annual $9.2 million budget shortfall, every year over the next five years. Hope the Virginia General Assembly will enact a gas tax “floor” to help the agency recoup and additional $3.5 million it lost when gas prices dropped.
A fire ripped through a townhouse on Forestdale Avenue, according to a press release.
Fire and rescue crews were called to the 4400 block of Forestdale Avenue in Dale City at 6 p.m. They arrived to see fire “blazing” from the first floor of a middle-row townhome, according to a press release.
A new logo will be used to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Prince William County Fire and Rescue Department.
The department unveiled the new logo in a press release on Thursday. The words “Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue 50 Years, 1966 – 2016” are featured against a bright red background.
Amber is doing better after cancer surgery.
The brown and white 8-year-old boxer-lab-mix had two cysts removed from her stomach late last year. Her owner, Stephanie Dobranski, brings Amber to their favorite place: Chinn Park.
A Stafford County Grand Jury indicted a man accused of shooting and killing another man outside a North Stafford restaurant.
La’Twon Marte Berryman faces murder charges in the Feb. 15, 2015 slaying of Mark Milligan outside Wings to Go at the corner of Garrisonville Road and Travis Lane.
Frozen ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams should not be used for outdoor ice recreation because of the risk factor to ourselves as well as rescuers.
The safest place for ice recreation are pavillons, skating rinks, and other places designed for ice recreation, says the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue.
A pedestrian was struck this morning in front of a Walgreens pharmacy on at Smoketown and Old Bridge roads in Lake Ridge.
Here’s more in a police press release:
The Manassas Park Community Center will serve as a warming shelter during this string of cold winter days.
During periods of extreme cold @theMPCC is a designated emergency warming center during normal hours. More info: https://t.co/hBXsXqqzLr
A man has been charged with reckless handling of a firearm after firing shots toward the victim when their argument escalated.
According to police, no injuries were reported.
Police arrested a man in connection to a robbery at a TD Bank .
Ben R. Taulbee, Jr., 36, was apprehended in Warsaw, N.C., about 50 miles outside Jacksonville, N.C.
