STAFFORD, Va. — Shots were fired into a townhouse on Cummings Drive about 10:30 p.m. Friday.

No one was hurt, but the two people inside the house near the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said they heard what sounded like gunshots. They went to investigate and found what appeared to be two bullet holes in a shattered rear glass door, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.


Volunteer Opportunities in the Area

Good morning – Its summer time and the weather is . . . well mostly rainy.  Cure those summertime blues and get out and volunteer!  There is a wide variety of activities and if you don’t see something here then visit www.volunteerprincewilliam.org.


Mom on the Run

I straighten up and shut the drawer, lavender booklet in my hand. I am so relieved. I mean, I knew I still had it, this medical records book has been closely guarded since the pediatrician gave it to me at my son’s four-day-old check-up in May of 1995. It’s got his height and weight and blood pressure for every check-up through to when he turned 16, plus, most importantly, I flip through, looking – aha, there it is! – his vaccination record.


OPINION

I like 11st Congressional District Congressman Gerry Connolly, I really do.  I don’t always agree with his politics; however, he has supported a few initiatives I am really fond of, like Telework, and his constituent services are first class.  While I lean right, I voted for Connolly in the past, and had planned to for the indefinite future.


Reports of the death of “hyperlocal” news are premature. While Patch and other corporate-backed online local news efforts are struggling, a trio of independent local news websites in the Washington, D.C. area are thriving.

ARLnow.com and BethesdaNow.com, published by Arlington, Va.-based Local News Now LLC, and PotomacLocal.com, published by Woodbridge, Va.-based Potomac Local Media LLC, have enjoyed significant traffic and revenue growth over the past year.


PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A Dumfries man was killed on Independence Day in a motorcycle crash on Joplin Road that involved two motorcycles.

Police were called to the intersection of Joplin and Mawavi roads just before 1 p.m. Thursday. Two motorcycles were headed east on Joplin Road toward Interstate 95 and Quantico when one of the riders moved to pass a vehicle traveling in front of him, and then collided with an oncoming vehicle traveling on the opposite side of the road, according to Prince William police.


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