Remember, most lane closures will be lifted through noon Tuesday, April 19, for the Easter holiday travel period.
I-95 Southbound
According to police, Prince William County school Information Technology Specialist sexually assaulted multiple students while on school grounds.
On April 6, detectives with the Special Victims Bureau, in conjunction with Child Protective Services, began an investigation into an alleged sexual assault at John Jenkins Elementary School, at 4060 Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge, involving a school staff member. Police identified four victims, all 8-year-old girls, as being inappropriately touched by the accused while in his office within the school building between March and April 2022.
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[Updated 10:50 p.m.] One person was shot tonight at a carnival at Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge.
The unidentified victim is being flown from the high school football field to a local hospital.
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High school students from across the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region are invited to participate in Dialogue for Democracy at George Mason University!
Hosted by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, this event offers high school students an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations about democracy, civic engagement, and the importance of understanding different perspectives.
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Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) visited Fredericksburg as part of a week-long tour of Virginia to talk about a recently passed infrastructure bill. The Commonwealth will receive funds for transit projects.
Warner walked the recently rehabilitated Chatham Bridge to promote a bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act package, which contains $537 million to repair and replace bridges in Virginia over five years. Virginia will receive $232 million for projects to improve transit from the act’s total $1.2 trillion in funds.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed about 700 bills impacting the economy, health care policy, law enforcement policies, taxes and various other issues.
Each bill had some level of bipartisan support, needing approval from the Republican-controlled House of Delegates and the Democratic-controlled Senate. The governor also amended more than 100 bills, which the General Assembly will need to act on. Lawmakers are also working on several other bills that have yet to reach the governor, with the most important of those being the state budget.
A popular senior citizens expo will return to our region with a new name.
The Prince William Chamber announced that the event formerly known as Transitions has been renamed the Aging Gracefully Expo. The event will return in person this year after having to be conducted virtually the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A Stafford County daycare owner turned herself in to authorities after three infants were taken to a hospital with exposure to THC.
On March 2, 2022, Deputy A.J. Deasy went to Stafford Hospital and found three children, all one year of age, and all from separate homes, were treated in the emergency room after their parents observed lethargic and uncoordinated behavior and glassy, bloodshot eyes.
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[Updated Noon] Route 28 north is open at the Prince William County / Manassas City lane after a tractor-trailer overturned just before 6 a.m..
According to police, crews spent hours working on the accident clean up, working to unload the truck’s cargo — computer parts — from the overturned trailer. No one was injured.