Students, faculty, and staff at George Mason University will be grounded starting Monday.
The university, with campuses in Fairfax and Prince Willaim counties, told Potomac Local News it will ban international travel due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Aubrey was born on September 28, 1931 and passed away on March 11, 2020. Aubrey was a resident of Woodbridge, Virginia.
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Virginia health officials are now reporting eight cases of suspected coronavirus in the state. That number is up by three from earlier this morning.
The newest cases include a “presumptive” case in Loudoun County and two in Virginia Beach. In Loudoun, the presumptive positive case is a patient is in their 40s who is believed to have come in contact with a person with coronavirus while attending Christ Church in Georgetown, in Washington, D.C. The Loudoun County Health Department learned about this patient early Tuesday morning following testing for the novel coronavirus by the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services in Richmond, the county states in a press release.
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Manassas Park sees a new library, and now a new parking garage for the city’s envisioned downtown development.
A new garage would provide at least 500 more parking spaces needed at the Manassas Park VRE station. The new spaces would be in addition to the 600 spaces already in use at the station on weekdays.
A student at Mountain View High School faces charges after a loaded weapon was found on campus.
Deputies were called to the school at 2135 Mountain View Road in Stafford County at 11:20 a.m. They found a loaded 40 caliber Taurus handgun inside a gym locker. A School Resource Officer received information that a 14- year-old student had a gun in the school, the sheriff’s office tells Potomac Local News.
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A new restaurant is opening up in Downtown Fredericksburg called Fork N Biscuit.
It’s taking over 715 Caroline Street and is a sharp contrast to Legume, the vegan/vegetarian restaurant that used to be located there.
Morning commuters who use back roads to get from Prince William County to Fairfax County could see some road work this week.
Evans Ford Road, between Yates Ford Road and Signal Hill Road, will be closed to through traffic, as long as the weather permits, from 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 10 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 12.
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Update | Manassas police tell Potomac Local News today that officers were called to Micron Technologies early Sunday morning to investigate a report of a suspicious item.
After a police investigation, the item in question was not deemed to be suspicious, said city police spokeswoman Sarah Maroney.
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The Fredericksburg Nationals will hold a job fair this week.
The minor league team and ballpark concessions provider, PSC will host the fair in order to hire hundreds of gameday employees for the 2020 baseball season.
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