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MANASSAS — Virginia Railway Express officials recommend expanding the Broad Run station from its current footprint northward across the tracks.
The commuter railroad recommends building the “north/south option” that would mean adding a new parking lot for riders across the tracks on the north side of the station. It would also mean adding a new station entrance on Residency Road, to provide more station access from Route 28.
From Prince William police:
Abduction – On April 14 at 7:40PM, officers responded to the 3300 block of Dry Powder Cir [near] Dumfries (22026) to investigate a vehicle theft in progress. The victim, a 38-year-old woman, reported to police that she was changing her 3-month-old child’s diaper in the back seat while she was standing outside of her vehicle that was parked in the above area.
From the Stafford sheriff’s office:
Deputies with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a suspect who attempted to rob the Dollar General on Deacon Road on Monday night.
QUANTICO — A Quantico Town Council member will be remembered at a public memorial service.
Jerre Thomas II, died on Thursday, April 12 when his motorcycle was struck by another vehicle on Interstate 95 near Dumfries.
The Woodbridge/Lake Ridge OmniLink buses will no longer serve some stops and will stop traveling through Tacketts Mill shopping center.
From an email of OmniRide:
The bodies of two Woodbridge men were recovered from the Potomac River.
The bodies of Fermin Alvarado, 45, and Matias Alvarado-Arrue, 31 were recovered by Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police on Sunday.
HAYMARKET — Has OmniRide been reading Uber’s playbook?
The transit agency proposes using ride-sharing technology to hail a shuttle van for a ride to a commuter lot.