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Manassas police chief clarifies statement on city rioters: “We were not chased”

By Olivia Aveni Briscoe
City police car design from 2011

A week after Manassas City Police Chief Douglas Keen had told Manassas City Council that he was chased by 200 protestors during a riot on Sunday, May 31, he’s clarified his earlier statement.

“So I said chased, I own those words, I said ‘em. Retreated and moving back would be a better description. We were not chased down the street, being chased by a bully with rocks being thrown at us. We were pushed backwards and continued to move into Battery Heights,” Keen said during a meeting of the Manassas City Coucnil on Monday, June 8.

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This week’s work zones on I-95 near Fredericksburg

By Rick Horner

Now through early Sunday, June 14 overnight travelers may experience delays with work zones this week in the Fredericksburg area of Interstate 95.

Milling and paving on I-95 will continue near the Exit 140 Diverging Diamond Interchange in Stafford County, as well as various construction activities for the I-95 Southbound Rappahannock River Crossing project and the I-95 Express Lanes Fredericksburg Extension project.

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NOVA Community College to have mostly virtual learning for fall

By Gianna Jirak
Northern Virginia Community College Manassas Campus.

Northern Virginia Community College classes are going to start on time, but for the most part, they will not in-person.

In a statement on June 8 made by the college’s president, Anne M. Kress, it was announced that the college’s classes would begin as scheduled on August 24 and be “offered in [NOVA’s] approved distance-learning formats, with the majority being offered either through NOVA Online or through synchronous delivery via Zoom.”

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