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.


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.


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.


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.


Jewell Technical Consulting is the tech company of the year in Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park.

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The middle portion of Stafford County is going through an industrial awakening, of sorts.

There is renewed interest from manufacturers in developing parcels of land near the Stafford Regional Airport on Centreport Parkway. But conditions on the land, known as proffers, set back in the 1980s and 90s, are holding things up, county officials say.


A teenager was rescued from a go-kart when her hair became entangled in the gears.

Fire and rescue crews were called to Fun Land of Fredericksburg, at 1351 Central Park Boulevard at 7:12 p.m. on Sunday. The found a female victim trapped on a go-kart, with one of their hair braids caught in the gears of the motor directly behind her, and underneath her.


There just might be room for another Lidl grocer in Stafford County.

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