The final suspect in a shooting death last week was arrested in Manassas.
Bryan Lamonte Patterson, 25, of 4716 Kirkdale Drive in Dale City, was taken into custody without incident at a house in Manassas last night. Patterson is charged in the murder of 19-year-old Christopher Nathaniel Weaver, killed in the early morning hours of Nov. 16. A second victim, a 15-year-old boy, was also shot and taken to a hospital with injuries that did nto appear to be life threatening.
The footprint of Old Town Manassas could soon expand east.
A proposal calls for 140 new condos to be built at Manassas Station, a new four-story housing development that would replace the old ABC Photo Processing Center on Prince William Street, originally built in 1953 and modified in 1985.
The Prince William County School Board voted 7-1 to accept the new boundary plans for the 12th high school, including several amendments. Click here for the full story from our news partner Bristow Beat.
Police busted three people suspected of making meth in an area motel.
Investigators made the bust Nov. 3 at Red Roof Inn just off Interstate 66 near Manassas
One man is in custody and another is sought in the shooting death of a Dale City man.
Christopher Weaver was shot and killed at a home on the 13400 block of Keating Drive in Dale City early Sunday. A 15-year-old boy was also wounded during the shooting.
The “Promenade at First Town Center” project in Dumfries is moving ahead.
Dumfries will hold a public hearing to get feedback on a plan to sell nearly four acres of land on Main Street (Route 1 south), between the ACTS Thrift Store and the existing “First Town Center” office building next to Town Hall for $150,000.
Virginia Railway Express riders: pull out your calendars and take note.
Here is the holiday schedule for all VRE trains, noting when service will be modified or canceled due to a holiday between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
At a formal pole removal ceremony on today, the City of Manassas Public Works & Utilities Department officially declared the Center Street/Prescott Avenue Overhead to Underground project complete. This Capital Improvement Project, which began in July 2012, removed 33 utility poles from the side of the road and relocated the lines underground.
The project entailed moving 27,708 linearfeet of conductor line from above ground to underground, making the area much more visually appealing. More than 15,352 man-hours were used to move electric lines and to upgrade 3,216 linear feet of water main pipes along the route which included; Center Street, Prescott Avenue, Zebedee Street, Quarry Road, Cherry Street and Maple Street. Moving these lines from above to below ground helps ensure reliability of electric service, while also taking away that cluttered feel of above ground power lines.
Two soon-to-be graduates from our area will be ready to patrol the streets and highways of Virginia.
Muhammad Ismail Abbasi, of Lorton, and Robert Morgan Guyton, III, of Stafford, will graduate as members of the Virginia State Police 122nd Basic Session. Cadets turned state troopers, the two men will each patrol in Prince William County.
Stafford authorities say they have completed their investigation into a choking incident at Brooke Point High School.
A football player was choked and subsequently passed out inside a locker room Oct. 23. The following week, the school canceled its scheduled football match with North Stafford High School.
