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(Press Release) Settle the Debt’s first major fundraising campaign as a nonprofit netted over $40,000 to pay lunch debt bills at 23 Prince William County Schools.

A total of 18 elementary schools and two schools serving kindergarten through 8th-grade students (called “Traditional” schools) had their lunch debts paid in full.


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Police have now reclassified the case of this morning’s fatal double shooting at a Denny’s restaurant near Manassas from an armed robbery to homicide.

But if you count it, there have been a total of 17 reports of armed or attempted armed robbery in Prince William County since November 30.


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Police have released the names of the two victims in this morning’s double shooting at a Denny’s restaurant near Manassas. A press release states:

Homicide Investigation *VICTIM IDENTIFIED – Detectives with the Homicide Unit have identified the victim killed in the early morning robbery that occurred at the Denny’s on Sudley Rd in Manassas. The deceased was identified as Yusuf OZGUR, 56, of Manassas. The second victim shot was identified as a 34-year-old man of Rixeyville who remains hospitalized. The victims were not known to one another or the suspects. More information will be released when available. The investigation continues.


Marlea Elizabeth Moriarty passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning December 18, 2019.  She was born on January 14, 1954 in Frankfort, Germany while her father was serving in the Army in Fulda.  As a military dependent, her early years were filled with travel both in the United States and in Europe while the family was stationed in Germany.

In 1971, she met her future husband while both of them lived in Selfridge AFB, Michigan.  In 1972 her father, LTC Carl F. Dupke Jr. retired and settled in Birmingham, Michigan to start a second career designing the M1 tank fire control systems.  In 1972, Marlea and her future husband attended the University of Alabama.  In 1973, Marlea transferred back to Birmingham to attend Oakland Community College to study photography, which was one of her passions.