The effort to build a bypass around Manassas City hit a road block today after it failed to gain the support of the elected supervisor of the district where the would would be built.
Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega announced her opposition the project that would extend the four lanes of Godwin Drive from its terminus near the Novant/UVA Health Prince William Medical Center in Manassas through a residential neighborhood, connecting it with Route 28 in Fairfax County.
Police are looking for a man they say pulled out a box cutter and used it during a fight on board an OmniRide bus.
Police were were called July 31, at 8:22 a.m to Prince William Parkway and Worth Avenue in Woodbridge to investigate a report of a fight on a bus. A 33-year-old victim told police that he and another man got into a fight, and then the the suspect used the box cutter to slice the victim’s leg before he ran off the bus.
Those who were seeking a test for the coronavirus in Prince William will have to wait. Testing sites that were scheduled for Tuesday, August 4, will be closed due to Tropical Storm Isaias, which is expected to affect our region throughout the day on Tuesday.
Here are the locations that will be closed:
The region is bracing for heavy rain and there’s one thing emergency crews want to remember — turn around, don’t drown.
Forecasters are calling for between four and six inches of rain to fall tonight and throughout Tuesday with the approaching Tropical Storm Isaias.
Prince William County Public Schools students will be learning from home during the first nine-weeks of the school year online, with exceptions for certain students with additional needs.
This, however, will be very different from the virtual spring semester that occurred during the beginning of the pandemic, as students will have structured schedules, regular start/end times, and learn new content, school officials said.
A Dumfries man is now in police custody and charged with robbery following a two-month search.
The suspect was found at his home and taken into custody without a struggle on Tuesday, July 28. Banks was involved in a robbery at a Walmart at 17401 Jefferson Davis Highway near Dumfries, and were on the run until now, police said.
Manassas leaders did not endorse a plan to build a bypass around the city.
Despite the urging of Mayor Hal Parrish II, the city council deferred a vote on whether or not to support the new road that would create a new pathway to drivers to access heavily-congested Route 28 until its next meeting on August 27 — after Prince William County leaders have their say at an upcoming meeting on August 4.
Very little public business was discussed during a day-long work session on Thursday, July 30, attended by members of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
Elected leaders had hinted during a July 21 meeting the would once again take up the matter of an asphalt plant that could be built near the Blackburn residential neighborhood on Balls Ford Road near Manassas during the work session held at Chinn Park Regional Library in Lake Ridge. A decision by the board on whether or not to issue a special use permit to allow an asphalt plant is more than 10-months overdue.
In its first statewide poll, Virginia political consulting firm War Room Strategies found nearly half of likely voters believe that their local school boards and superintendents — not the CDC, President Trump, or Gov. Ralph Northam — should be most responsible for providing options to parents on reopening schools.
And, as many school systems plan to return to 100% virtual learning in the fall, similar to what students experienced following the coronavirus lockdown in March, 44% of those polled disapprove of their local school system’s plans, while 30% strongly disapprove.
The driver of a motorcycle and crashed into a guardrail was died.
Police were called Thursday, July 30 at 7:57 a.m. to the area of Nokesville Road and Fauquier Drive in Nokesville to investigate a crash. An investigation revealed that the driver of a blue, 2013 Kawasaki Ninja 650 motorcycle was traveling north on Nokesville Road near Fauquier Drive when he operator lost control and crashed into a guardrail.
