A 24-year-old man is behind bars after fighting with a 60-year-old woman over a wifi password at their home.
The two are family members, police said. A Stafford sheriff’s deputy was called to Quiet Brook Court at 10:33 p.m. Tuesday, December 27, 2022, for a fight report. When he arrived, he found the two fighting over the wireless internet password and the placement of Christmas lights, a police report states.
This past weekend, a surge in electricity demand across the Mid-Atlantic region prompted a change at an area wastewater plant.
The electrical grid that serves the east coast, PJM Interconnection, was overloaded with demand when temperatures plummeted to the single digits at 4:20 a.m. Christmas Eve.
Police arrested a driver they said tried to flee a traffic stop and struck an officer’s arm with his car.
On Tuesday, December 20, at 9:20 p.m., a Prince William County police officer conducted a vehicle stop on a blue 2008 Mercedes SC400 in the area of Dale Boulevard and Forestdale Avenue in Dale City.
Paul Milde, a Republican running for the newly-drawn House District 64 seat in Stafford County, says GOP voters may decide in June what candidate they want to run in the November General Election.
However, the announcement comes as Milde is, so far, the only Republican to announce a run for the district, which contains central Stafford County, with areas south of Garrisonville Road, south to Route 17, and east to the Potomac River.
Police found a woman’s body in a car outside a grocery store on Christmas Eve.
The car parked outside a Giant Food store in Manassas, at the Wellington Plaza shopping center at Dumfries and Wellington Roads, contained the body of a 43-year-old woman from Prince William County.
A wrong-way driver on I-95 was arrested on Christmas Day after a brief pursuit in Stafford County.
On December 25 at 5:09 a.m. Deputy B.M. Taylor was called to Interstate 95 near the 136-mile marker, near Stafford Regional Airport, for a complaint of a Dodge Charger going northbound in the southbound lanes.
One man is dead after falling through the ice near Haymarket.
Fire and rescue crews were called to a golf course at the intersection of Erin Blair Loop and Piedmont Vista Drive in the Piedmont subdivision after three people walked out onto a pond measuring 200 feet long by 70 feet wide.
Just before 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 25, Stafford County Fire and Rescue units were dispatched for a reported structure fire in the 600 block of Ramoth Church Road, near the county’s regional airport.
Fire crews found a mobile home fully involved. Crews extended multiple lines and brought the fire under control in 10 minutes.
Though it didn’t snow, it sure feels like Christmas out there.
I woke to a chilly seven degrees this Christmas Eve morning. It reminded me of a year ago when 70-degree temperatures were in the forecast.
