STAFFORD, Va. — Funds to treat mental illness in children would get a boost under the proposed Stafford County budget for FY2015.
The county is set to hand over nearly $41,000 more than it did a year ago to the Rappahannock Community Services Board (RCSB) to treat children with mental illness. Officials said the number of youths being treated by the intergovernmental agency is on the rise.
Quantico Middle/High School Baseball gets ready to play ball — Volunteers helped the construction team of John Blake and Isaac Trowbridge rip out the entire kitchen floor. [Quantico Sentry]
Habitat for Humanity Prince William gives Dumfries family new kitchen floor — Volunteers helped the construction team of John Blake and Isaac Trowbridge rip out the entire kitchen floor and begin installing the new kitchen flooring They also dug a hole in the crawl space and drained the standing water from under the house. [Habitat for Humanity Prince William]
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A helicopter was called to take at least one patient to a hospital after a serious crash in Woodbridge.
At least two cars collided on Va. 123 overpass at Interstate 95 this morning. One of the cars was cashed in the accident and emergency crews appeared to be working on assisting a crash victim. Another patient had been placed on a stretcher and was most likely waiting for a helicopter.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A storm, a power outage, and the sudden presence of the fire department didn’t stop people from getting in a good workout at Powerhouse Gym.
A storm rolled through the Woodbridge area about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night knocking out the power to Powerhouse Gym on Golansky Boulevard, as well as other businesses next to the gym in the area of Smoketown Road and Prince William Parkway, for about five hours, said gym owner-operator Kelly Kirk.
DALE CITY, Va. — A Herndon woman now faces several charges after a police pursuit ended in a violent crash on Intestate 95 in Dale City.
Fire and rescue crews were called to mile post 156 on I-95 south early Tuesday morning after a van with several occupants ran off the road. Four of the occupants were ejected.
MANASSAS, Va. — Governor Terry McAuliffe visited the new Evergreen Health Clinic on Liberia Avenue in Manassas on Thursday. He’s touring the state to push for the expansion of Medicaid.
“We have got to close this coverage gap,” McAuliffe told attendees during the meeting. “We cannot gridlock in Richmond on this issue.”
MANASSAS, Va. — A teenager was in a back yard with friends when a group of males walked up, started a fight, and stabbed him, police said.
Here’s more in an unedited police press release:
STAFFORD, Va. — The Chamber Ensemble singers of Brooke Point High School in Stafford are going to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington on March 16. Their performance will be apart of a larger show of student choirs from across the U.S., according to Brooke Point Choral Director Stephen Shelburne.
Here’s Shelburne’s letter to Stafford County Public School administrators telling them of the students’ upcoming trip and how the public can attend the concert in Washington, D.C.:
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A Maryland woman faces charges after sheriff’s’ deputies said she opened a line of credit in someone else’s name and tried to buy several iPads.
Deputies were called to a Best Buy store in the Stafford Marketplace shopping center on March 8 to find a woman standing at the store’s service desk speaking with a manager. The manager called 911 after he became suspicious of the woman opening up a new account with an out-of-state ID card, and using a social security number she pulled from her cell phone on a credit application, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Update 12:30 p.m.
The commotion is all over this morning at the Prince William Campus of George Mason University.
