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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — While final plans are not yet in place for High Occupancy Toll lanes on Interstate 95, transportation officials will begin preliminary work on the project next week.

Drivers will notice the work taking place on the highway shoulders on I-95 between Springfield and Dumfries, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.


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STAFFORD, Va. — A teenager was arrested after a racial slur was found painted at a church earlier this month.

Stafford authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a 16-year-old male charged in vandalizing the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church at 135 Chapel Green Road. Sheriff’s deputies found a racial slur spray painted on a back wall of the church on March 4 and then put out a call for leads in the case.


ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Five members of the Underground Gangster Crips (UGC) set based in Fairfax County, Va., have been arrested for allegedly running a prostitution business that recruited high school girls and threatened them with violence if they attempted to leave. Including the charges unsealed today, 11 members of area gangs have been charged with underage sex trafficking since 2011 as part of a number of ongoing investigations.

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Attorney General of Virginia, Colonel David Rohrer, Fairfax County Chief of Police, and Ronald T. Hosko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Criminal Division, made the announcement after the charges were unsealed.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — School officials in Prince William County have once again turned their attention to graffiti found at Potomac Senior High School.

A new graffiti message was found inside a girls restroom inside the Woodbridge school, but Prince William County Public Schools spokesman Philip Kavitis told PotomacLocal.com that police see no credible threat contained in the new message found at the school. Kavitis was not specific on what messaged was contained in the new graffiti.


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NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Authorities arrested a man who they said tried to cash a forged check at a North Stafford bank.

Stafford Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Wells Fargo bank on Va. 610 just after 11 a.m. Monday for a report of a forgery in progress. Bank employees said a man in a gray suit walked in and tried to cash a check for $7,000, said Stafford Sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.