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The first of two phases of a new animal shelter in Prince William County opened this week.

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Ann Sang Hyundai is charged with illegal burning, said Prince William County Fire Marshal Matt Smolsky. Hyundai is the new tenant of the building that housed the old Tim’s Rivershore restaurant near Dumfries.

Hyundai is due in court to answer the charge on December 20, Smolsky adds.


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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors plans to use funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act to hire two new full-time employees and to purchase new equipment for the county sheriff’s office.

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Atif Qarni is no longer Virginia’s Education Secretary.

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At 2:38 p.m., police went to a BB&T bank branch at the Wellington Shopping Center for a robbery report at 10040 Dumfries Road.

A bank employee said the robber demanded money, implied he had a weapon, and fled the scene on foot, a police spokeswoman said. Bank employees never saw a gun, police add.


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An internal investigation into a claim of racism hurled at the Prince William County Police Department by the husband of one of the county’s top elected leaders is unfounded, say authorities.

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[Updated 7:30 p.m.] Two major incidents at opposite ends of Stafford County kept fire crews busy.

A dog perished in the fire. Fire crews reported no other injuries, and fire crews did not find working smoke detectors in the home, said county fire and rescue spokeswoman Katie Brady.


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Authorities were called to a home on Cynthia’s Place in the England Run neighborhood in Stafford County at 1:41 p.m. Sunday, November 28. They found a woman who had locked herself in a car following an argument with the suspect.

A dispatcher who received a 911 call about the case overheard the two arguing, a sheriff’s spokesman said.