Starting at 10 p.m. tonight, December 8, I-95 northbound will be reduced to one lane near exit 133 (Route 17) to exit 136 (Centreport Parkway) in Stafford County.
Between midnight and 3 a.m., December 9, crews will stop all I-95 northbound traffic up to 30 minutes at a time to maneuver large construction equipment within the work zone.
The Dumfries Christmas Parade will be held on Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Please note a new parade route that begins at Potomac Valley Church, going through Williamstown to Graham Park Road. The parade will then cross Route 1, ending at 17739 Main Street. pic.twitter.com/yMF8zFkoye
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Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative will accept post-holiday cut Christmas trees and greens at its Gainesville technical center at 5399 Wellington Branch Road, near Interstate 66 and Route 29, from Dec. 26, 2022, to Jan. 9, 2023. Consumers should leave greens in the parking lot area designated by orange safety cones.
All greens must be free of all decorations, ornament hooks, wires, and light strings.
Since Dec. 3, 2022, the Prince William County Police Department has responded to three overdoses, one in which was fatal, involving juveniles possibly consuming counterfeit Percocet pills containing the lethal narcotic Fentanyl.
The first incident occurred on December 3 when officers responded to a home in the Manassas area of Prince William County for an unresponsive 17-year-old boy. The family began CPR and administered Narcan as medical services was being contacted; however, the juvenile died.
Three northbound travel lanes of Interstate 95 are now crossing a new Rappahannock River bridge between Fredericksburg and Stafford County.
Crews completed work overnight to finish connecting lanes leading to and from the new bridge, wrapping up nearly 60 hours of an extended work zone that started Monday evening.
Virginia State Police are seeking the public’s help locating a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian in a work zone on Interstate 66 in Fairfax County on Thursday morning, December 8, 2022.
As the worker was running towards the crash, a third vehicle came through the work zone at a high rate of speed and struck the worker. The vehicle – a maroon passenger vehicle – then fled the scene.
Prince William County detectives with the Violent Crimes Bureau are continuing their efforts to identify and locate the suspect or suspects involved in the fatal shooting of a 44-year-old man that occurred in the area of Morgan Court and Old Triangle Road in Dumfries on November 12 shortly after 5:30 a.m.
Police found the victim, Demetrious Levar Graham, 44, of Woodbridge, in the driver’s seat of a vehicle, after police responded to the area for multiple reports of shots being fired. Video surveillance captured the armed male suspect wearing no shirt with his face covered walking along the sidewalk. The suspect is then seen firing multiple rounds towards the man’s vehicle as it drove by.
More than 1,400 people attended the second-annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony organized by the Stafford County Government.
The ceremony took place outside the county’s courthouse, at 1300 Courthouse Road, on Friday, December 2, 2022. The event also featured live performances, and a European-style Christmas market.
More than 155,000 customers took the lanes, with nearly one in four traveling for free at least once with an E-ZPass Flex set to HOV mode.
Today’s announcement comes on the heels of 10th Anniversary of the opening of the Lanes in November. In commemoration, Transurban released the annual State of the Lanes polling research that provides insights on how customers continue to value the expanded travel choices of the Lanes as well as a report detailing the significant impact the 495, 95 and 395 Express Lanes have had in transforming the region.
