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Police found two people suffering gunshots inside a home in Lake Ridge.
Officers were called at 3:33 a.m. to the 11500 block of Bertram Street to investigate a death. When they arrived, officers found a 36-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman suffering from gunshot wounds.
Both parties were known to one another and were pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
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A Stafford man faces charges following a strong-armed robbery in Dumfries.
Meanwhile, police are searching for a Woodbridge man in connection to the crime.
On Thursday, November 18, at 8:25 p.m., officers were called to the 15000 block of Bridgeport Drive. in Dumfries to investigate a robbery. The victim, a 26-year-old man, told police that while outside of a home, he was approached by two acquaintances who pushed him to the ground.
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To make Thanksgiving travel easier and safer, the Virignia Department of Transportation says it will suspend many highway work zones and lift most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia from noon on Wednesday, November 24, until noon on Monday, November. 29.
Mezeh, a Maryland-based Mediterranean grill, will open a new location at Potomac Mills mall.
Mezeh plans to open in the former location of Bobby's Burger Palace, a hamburger restaurant owned by celebrity chef Bobby Flay.
A date for the restaurant's grand opening has yet to be confirmed, restaurant spokeswoman Hayley Cunningham said. When the restaurant opens, customers who purchase a drink will be offered a free food bowl, she added.
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Four people were injured and are displaced today after a fire ripped through their home.
Just after 1:40 a.m. on Saturday, November 20, units with Stafford County Fire and Rescue (SCFR) responded for a reported structure fire at a home on Wallace Farms Lane, about a mile from Gayle Middle School.
The first arriving units found smoke coming from the chimney of a three-story single-family home. Upon further investigation, crews found fire on the roofline in the rear of the house on the outside and fire on the roofline inside the home.
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There's a lot of uncertainty among Virginia lawmakers who had gotten used to Democratic control in Richmond.
At a recent joint meeting of state and local lawmakers in Woodbridge, many asked whether or not incoming Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin -- the first Republican to win the highest office in the state in the past 12 years --- would continue funding investments in rail and public transportation, or if he would instead favor new road construction.
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A Spotsylvania woman died while helping a friend back out of a parking space.
At 11:16 a.m., deputies from the Stafford sheriff’s office received a report of a pedestrian struck in the parking lot of a beauty salon at 4 Harrell Road in the Falmouth section of the county.
The initial investigation revealed the 89-year-old driver of a Hyundai Elantra backed into the victim, pinning the pedestrian against an unoccupied, parked vehicle in the lot.
The woman succumbed to her injuries. Hazel Cobb, 66, of Spotsylvania, was pronounced dead. The accident is under investigation by the Traffic Safety Unit of the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office.
Cobb and the 89-year-old driver were friends, authorities said. The victim was helping the driver back out of a parking space when she was struck and killed.
