Frederick, Md. –– Justin Bloxom hit the game-winning home run in the top of the 10th and Potomac clinched its third straight series win with a 6-4 victory in Frederick on Thursday night.

With the win, Potomac stays in first place in the Carolina League Northern Division.


The victim was walking in the area of Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) and Potomac Hills Drive about 4:30 a.m. Thursday when a man approached him, demanded money, and stabbed the victim when he said he had no cash, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.

A tow truck driver saw the victim who was walking along U.S. 1 near Sunnyside Nursery and asked the man if he needed help, but he declined, said Kennedy. The driver then saw a car come a pick up the victim, and police later found the victim with a friend at a pharmacy on Garrisonville Road (Va. 610). The couple was purchasing bandages when deputies found them.


Transit officials announced Prince William County has ended its five-year, $289,000 deal with the First Baptist Church on Minnieville Road near Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge.

Officials’ hopes that commuters forced from a longtime commuter parking lot at Potomac Mills mall would choose to park at the church never materialized.


The P-Nats (8-6) trailed 4-3 entering the inning, but quickly put a rally together. With one down, catcher Sandy Leon and right fielder J.R. Higley hit back-to-back doubles to put runners at second and third. Keys (7-6) manager Orlando Gomez elected to intentionally walk number nine hitter Eury Perez to load the bases and put the force play in order. The decision worked initially. Lead-off man Francisco Soriano followed the Perez walk with a groundball to third base and Dale Mollenhauer came home to erase Sandy Leon for the second out.

Then, Gomez went to the bullpen and brought in the Carolina League leader in saves, Sean Gleason. But the righty from Colorado walked second baseman Jeff Kobernus to tie the game at four.


Rescue crews were called about 6 p.m. Tuesday to the 700 block of Perry Drive in the Grafton Village subdivision near Ferry Farm when after the victim son found her lying on the floor suffering a gunshot wound to her upper body, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.

The victim’s son along with his father had just returned home from work and found the woman not breathing.


Late last month, the Commonwealth Transportation Board voted to withhold funding from a six-year transportation plan approved by the group in Richmond, reports Bloomberg Business Week.

“We’re not going to fix transportation by buying municipal fleets,” said Stafford County Supervisor Cord A. Sterling, who also represents the Fredericksburg District on the CTB. “We’ve got very limited resources and we’ve got a lot of needs.”


The 2009 acquisition of the hospital on Opitz Boulevard in Woodbridge, and a increase in Virginia’s Medicaid subscription plans helped Sentara Healthcare reach the increased profits, the HamptonRoads.com reports.

Sentara, a non-profit, posted $2.21 billion in net assets at the end of December, more than $300 million more than the year before.


The retailer has struck a $2.8 billion deal to be acquired by two private firms.

Shareholders would receive $51.25 per share of common stock, that’s just above where the stock traded at a one-year high of $50.29 per share, according to CNBC.


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