A woman and her family were robbed at gunpoint in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015.
The robbers made off with the family car.
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A time capsule was buried in at newly opened Haymarket-Gainesville Community Library.
Students from Mountain View Elementary School gathered for an assembly on Friday to celebrate the opening of the new library. There, Gainesville District Supervisor Peter Candland joined school and public library officials who all worked to collect items for a special time capsule for burial at the library.
Residents of Manassas Park will get another break on the deadline to pay their personal property taxes.
November 20, 2015, is now the deadline for Manassas Park residents to have their taxes paid. The tax payment deadline is set annually on October 5, but the City Council extended the deadline to October 30 due to issues with the city’s financial software known as AS 400.
The “good scouts” were honored last night in Manassas.
Jason Hickman, managing member of Compton and Duling, was given the Good Scout award for the Occoquan District. Hickman received praise for serving on the board of directors for several non-profit organizations and assisting in community fundraising efforts.
Residents got a sneak peak of the Montclair Community Library on Thursday.
It was the second time in as many weeks that residents in Prince William County came in droves to celebrate the opening of a new community library branch. The $16 million facility has been in the works for more than 20 years.
A truck crashed into a house on Lake Drive about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Rescue crews were called to the house near the intersection of Lake Drive and Pine Streets in Yorkshire. No injuries were reported in the crash, according to David Byrd who was on the scene following the crash.
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A 15-year-old is in jail after investigators said he made threats to bomb Brooke Point High School and shoot those at the school.
Stafford authorities were notified of the threat at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27 when the school principal called 911. The school administrator told authorities several parents told him the suspect who is a student at the school, had planned to blow up the school and shoot people at the school, according to a statement from the Stafford sheriff’s office.
Stafford County Public Schools has responded after a photo appeared on Instagram of two girls wearing jackets with offensive lettering.
The photo of two students wearing the jackets was taken at Mountain View High School, according to Stafford County School officials. The school division issued a statement this morning noting the photograph was investigated and that “appropriate actions have been taken.”
Work will soon begin to improve Arkendale Road in a rural section of Stafford County along the Potomac River.
The narrow road will be the main link to a new Widewater State Park once the park is developed.