A Manassas man is wanted by the Prince William County Police Department for an assault and attempted malicious wounding incident that took place yesterday evening.
A police K-9 team and a Fairfax County police helicopter attempted to search for the suspect. He has not yet been caught and detained.
The driver of an SUV lost control his vehicle and slammed into the car of a Virginia State Trooper this morning.
It happened at mile post 152 in Dumfries at 3:30 a.m. The trooper was sitting in his patrol car running radar, where the old I-95 HOV lanes use to merge with the southbound travel lanes of I-95. A 2000 Ford Explorer traveling south overturned and slid off the left side of the highway and crashed into the troopers car, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
Record cold hit Dulles International Airport this morning.
The National Weather Service says temperatures have not been this low at the airport in nearly 20 years.
The Prince William Parks and Recreation Department will be offering two pet first-aid classes to residents this spring.
“You have to prepare,” said Melissa Korzuch, president of the Prince William County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), in a release, continuing, “There’s no ambulance that will come by and pick up your pet. So, you are the first responder.”
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors approved the final design for the $20 million dollar Minnieville Road improvement project between Spriggs Road and Route 234 in Woodbridge.
The project will expand the section of road from two lanes to four lanes.
Have you tried to log on to Facebook this morning?
The service is down or is experiencing problems across the U.S. east coast and mid west.
Sunday brought high temperatures in the low 50s. That meant some of the snow that had fallen the yesterday when temperatures were well below freezing had a chance to melt.
Cold temperatures are back in the forecast on Monday. The National Weather Service issued a warning noting what melted today is likely to freeze overnight.
Schools will open 2 hours late tomorrow, Feb. 23, 2015. School offices & central offices will open on time. More at https://t.co/zNBBMjWGwr.
— Fairfax Schools (@fcpsnews) February 23, 2015
Snow began falling about 8 a.m. Saturday across the region and kept falling until about 5 p.m.
Afterward, we saw the precipitation changeover from snow to sleet, then to rain.
In a rare Saturday meeting, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors largely moved to restore funding to community services and programs that just earlier this week had been on the chopping block.
Millions in funding for Virginia Cooperative Extension programs, jailhouse drug rehabilitation programs, the Flory Small Business Center, gang awareness programs, funds for Prince William Soccer Inc., and the Boys and Girls Club – just to name a few – we’re all added back into the fiscal year 2016 budget.
