People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, will be busy protesting both the Lake Ridge “Fish “Out at Tall Oaks Pool, and the Ringling Brothers Circus at George Mason’s Patriot Center. You can join the protesters, or the events all weekend long.
Stories making news today across the Potomac Communities, handpicked by PotomacLocal.com.
Seven bicycle safety stations were set up in the neighborhood where families and children could have their bikes inspected for safety and learn bike-riding etiquette. T
The event was called the Bike Safety Rodeo, and proved to be a way to bring the community together.
Stafford sheriff’s deputies were called at 1:05 p.m. Monday to the Best Buy store at Stafford Marketplace on Garrisonville Road (Va. 610) after employees said a woman walked into the store and tired to purchase a camera.
While at the register, the woman swiped a credit card but it was declined, so she used another credit card and this time it worked –– but when asked for ID she couldn’t provide it and then left the store without the camera, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
In a report from VRE Chief Dale Zehner, the owner of VRE’s Fredericksburg line, CSX, has approved a plan to allow the system to let a train return to the Broad Run storage yard after it makes its final morning stop at Union Station in Washington.
Because the turn-around train can now be stored at Broad Run and not at Union Station as it has been that will allow the commuter railroad to add more cars to other trains and store them at Union Station prior to the afternoon rush hour.
Marty Nohe presents a redistricting plan to make happy his constituents and to rename the Dumfries Magisterial District, it’s now a misdemeanor in to leave lock your pet in a hot car in Fredericksburg, and a delegate who represents a portion of Stafford saw his bill to reduce the size of government signed into law.
Stafford County, Va. –– The Easter Bunny’s visit to the Rowser Building in Stafford was only a warm up to this weekend’s bigger, annual extravaganza.
The boyfriend of a woman found shot to death in North Stafford in 2010 was found guilty in her death.
Frederick Christian, of Baltimore County, Md., was convicted in Maryland on Monday after a jury concluded he shot 23-year-old Jerryell Myesha Foster and then dumped her body in a wooded area alongside Interstate 95.
Prince William’s Corey Stewart says Sen. George Barker is trying to limit his county’s influence in Richmond with a newly drawn political map, one group has asked Prince William’s school system to stop blocking students from accessing gay and lesbian websites, and the University of Mary Washington gets a $1 million donation.
