A round-up of news headlines from around our area.
Families Run Amuck, get muddy and have a great time — It’s after a four-mile race when you get to your picture taken a second time. At that point, runners aren’t so pretty. In fact, they’re such a muddy mess that everyone needs to get hosed down by the fire department. [WTOP-FM]
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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.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — It’s been 10 years since a Virginia Railway Express train rolled on the 4th of July.
This year, VRE trains will once again bring passengers from Virginia to Washington’s Union Station so they can attend the National Mall Independence Day Celebration, which offers the area’s most spectacular fireworks show, or A Capitol Fourth concert to be held on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A new bridge on Telegraph Road means drivers can get to work faster, and it has also led to more flooding at homes along the two-lane road.
Each time it rains, homeowners say water rushes into yards located next to a new bridge that carries drivers on Telegraph Road in North Stafford’s Boswell’s Corner from U.S. 1 to the large Russell-Knox Building on Quantico Marine Corps Base. The reconstructed bridge opened in March after being closed for nine months. It was rebuilt to accommodate new high occupancy toll lanes on Interstate 95 that runs beneath it.
A round-up of news headlines from around our area.
Foul odor nauseates Manassas residents — In recent weeks, some neighbors in the City of Manassas have been dealing with a nauseating situation. A foul odor has been coming up through the manhole covers in their community and even into their homes. [WTOP-FM]
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Christopher Lamar Carpenter is charged in the death of Barbara Naguitt, 53, of Woodbridge, a pedestrian who was walking along Opitz Boulevard in Woodbridge on June 2.
Here’s more in an unedited police report:
Apparently, it’s not OK to be intoxicated and at Splashdown Water Park outside Manassas. And, when a park ranger tried to remove someone from the swimming pool whom police said was intoxicated that person tried to fight back.
Here’s more in an unedited press release:
Manassas police reported the following incidents in this unedited press release:
Assault & Battery
