Lake Ridge, Va. –– A childrens author let loose a possum at Antietam Elementary School.

Luckily, the fuzzy guest was stuffed and came supervised by Jamey Long, a local author who writes for children.


But passengers this morning from Fredericksburg to Manassas had to deal with problems created by yesterday’s rain.

About 4:30 a.m., drivers headed to the Bull Run station at Manassas Regional Airport found out the access road to the station, Piper Lane, had been flooded out. The transit agency told drivers to find an alternate route to the station.


A fire and rescue vehicle from the Potomac Hills Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department was sitting in the right southbound lane of U.S. 1, just south of Boswell’s Corner, preventing drivers from traveling through a large pool of water that formed on the highway.


A teacher pleads guilty to molesting a student, some elementary school students won’t be moved from their base schools in Stafford County, and what school to go to where everyone’s a fan of Dr. Seuss.


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