Jail guards broke up a riot inside the Prince William County Adult Detention Center in Manassas.
More in a press release:
A 24-year-old man is in custody and is charged in a bank robbery reported in Lake Ridge on May 23.
Here’s more from police:
Supervisor Pete Candland would like to invite local children to participate in the First Annual Gainesville District Youth Art Contest. The contest is open to all children in Kindergarten through 5th Grade. Entries will be accepted in any medium, painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. The contest theme for the artwork is Summer Vacation.
Winners will be announced during an awards ceremony on June 8, 2016, at 6 PM at the Haymarket Gainesville Community Library. All entries will be displayed through the month of June at the library. Winners will receive a gift card and have their artwork displayed in Supervisor Candland’s office until June 2017.
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Health officials have their eyes trained on the Zika virus.
The spreader of the virus thought to cause birth defects in newborn children is the Asian Tiger Mosquito, one of the most common in Prince William County. With the Zika threat migrating north, public health officials are sped up the time it takes to get test results returned to check if someone is positive for the virus.
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Johnnie Pablito Kamara, 23, of Woodbridge Maryland was shot killed outside a Woodbridge nightclub early this morning.
Kamara was shot int he 3000 block of Golansky Boulevard. The shooting occurred at 2:20 a.m., about the same time the Babylon bar was closing and patrons were being pushed out of the business, said Prince William police spokesman Nathan Probus.
Stafford County will create a place to honor its residents who served and died in war.
The Silver Companies donated $100,000 to the effort to construct an Armed Services Memorial at the Stafford Government Center. The donation brought the fundraising campaign more than 70 percent to its $675,000 goal of fully funding the memorial.
A raccoon bit the hands of a Montclair man on Saturday.
Police issued a wild animal advisory following the attacked they call “unusual.”
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Virginia Railway Express trains that travel both north and south all day, more bike lanes, and more commuter parking are just some of the transportation wishes for the group tasked determining what Prince William County will need as its population grows.
Nowhere on the big list was an extension of Metro rail to the county, something advocates have long called for despite the Washington, D.C. subway system’s funding issues and crumbling infrastructure.