Crews working to build new toll lanes on the highway will erect new bridge beams for a new access ramp to the future I-66 Express Lanes. Two-way traffic will run on the west side of I-66 so that crews can safely install bridge beams over I-66 East. This work is part of the Transform 66 Outside the Beltway Project.
The ramps from Route 234 Business North and South to I-66 East will also be closed during this period.
On Tuesday, February 16, fire and rescue crews went to the 13000 block of Omni Court, near Saunders Middle School, for a house fire. When they arrived, crews saw flames.
The home’s occupants had discovered a rapidly spreading fire on an enclosed deck and attempted to extinguish the fire with a garden hose. The home sustained extensive damage, displacing three adults and one child.
This morning, five Virginia State Police troopers were injured in a vehicle pursuit that ended in Woodbridge.
Shortly before 5 a.m., Fairfax County Police alerted Virginia State Police to a 2012 Ford Fiesta – reported stolen from New York, was traveling south on Interstate 495 across the American Legion Bridge.
A food delivery driver was carjacked at gunpoint in Dale City.
On February 14 at 8 p.m., officers responded to the 14300 block of Westway Ln. in Dale City to investigate a carjacking.
A Maryland man died in a car crash in Woodbridge.
On Monday, February 14 at 10:57 a.m., police went to the intersection of Route 1 and Wigglesworth Way, near Hendrick Honda, to investigate a multi-vehicle crash.
Crystal Vanuch added her name to a growing list of Republicans vying to represent Virginia’s new 7th Congressional District.
Vanuch has served on the Stafford County Board of Supervisors since 2020 and serves as the Chair both this year and last year.
[Updated] Police pulled a body from the Occoquan Reservoir.
The body is that of an unidentified woman, police said. There are no signs of foul play, they add.
According to police, a 14-year-old boy suffered a mental health crisis on school grounds on Friday, February 4. During the encounter, school staff, including a teacher, temporarily restrained the student in an attempt to keep him from harming himself or others, police said,
After being released, the teacher, identified as the accused, spat on the student before the parties separated. The incident reportedly took place in a classroom during school hours, police said.
At 1:34 a.m., fire and rescue crews went to the 5000 block of Burnside Farm Place near Haymarket for a reported house fire.
Crews arrived and saw flames shooting fire through a roof of a home. Three occupants had been sleeping and awakened by smoke detectors. They were able to escape their home safely and then called 9-1-1, a fire and rescue spokesman said.
