By Tyler Arnold | The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Virginia has the second best highway system in the country, according to a recent report from the libertarian Reason Foundation, which analyzed highway conditions and cost effectiveness using 2019 and 2020 data.
Again this year, the jolly old elf won’t return for what was an annual, sell-out event, “Santa Trains.” Last held in December 2019, and every year before, the event invited children and parents to ride the rails with Santa on the commuter railroad’s Fredericksburg and Manassas lines.
In years past, Santa Train riders would flood VRE’s website to snag free tickets for the trains. Riders routinely claimed all of the vouchers within minutes.
Ann Sang Hyundai is charged with illegal burning, said Prince William County Fire Marshal Matt Smolsky. Hyundai is the new tenant of the building that housed the old Tim’s Rivershore restaurant near Dumfries.
Hyundai is due in court to answer the charge on December 20, Smolsky adds.
At 2:38 p.m., police went to a BB&T bank branch at the Wellington Shopping Center for a robbery report at 10040 Dumfries Road.
A bank employee said the robber demanded money, implied he had a weapon, and fled the scene on foot, a police spokeswoman said. Bank employees never saw a gun, police add.
[Updated 7:30 p.m.] Two major incidents at opposite ends of Stafford County kept fire crews busy.
A dog perished in the fire. Fire crews reported no other injuries, and fire crews did not find working smoke detectors in the home, said county fire and rescue spokeswoman Katie Brady.
Authorities were called to a home on Cynthia’s Place in the England Run neighborhood in Stafford County at 1:41 p.m. Sunday, November 28. They found a woman who had locked herself in a car following an argument with the suspect.
A dispatcher who received a 911 call about the case overheard the two arguing, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
