WOODBRIDGE, Va. –– C,D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge is on a precautionary secure-the-building status this morning after police were investigating a suicidal person in the Dale City area.
Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said the person does not pose a threat to the community or the school, and added school officials called for the secure status just to be cautious.
Update 5 p.m.
Aden Road is closed to traffic this late afternoon. Neighbors who have lived along the rural roadway say this is the worst flooding they’ve seen in the area in five years.
BRISTOW, Va. — New information is out about last night’s tanker truck that overturned in Bristow. It comes as a portion of Sudley Manor Drive, where the crash happened in front of Braemar Village Plaza, has reopened.
Details from this after-action report from a Prince William fire and rescue detail a harrowing event where two emergency workers were decontaminated after being exposed to fuel, and the need for state officials to be called into investigate any long-term impacts the spill might have on the environment:
Update 7 a.m.
Police lifted the ban on staring vehicles in the area where a tanker truck overturned in Bristow last night.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Councilman Derek Wood has been tapped to lead a new Parks and Recreation Commission in the Town of Dumfries.
Wood served as the catalyst for creating the new commission and helped to secure $25,000 of un-appropriated funds that will be used for events to be held at the town’s three parks in the coming year. Wood will serve as the elected official appointed to lead the commission made up of five town residents who were also appointed Tuesday night.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A Dumfries man was killed on Independence Day in a motorcycle crash on Joplin Road that involved two motorcycles.
Police were called to the intersection of Joplin and Mawavi roads just before 1 p.m. Thursday. Two motorcycles were headed east on Joplin Road toward Interstate 95 and Quantico when one of the riders moved to pass a vehicle traveling in front of him, and then collided with an oncoming vehicle traveling on the opposite side of the road, according to Prince William police.
DALE CITY, Va. — In true Dale City tradition, the annual 4th of July Parade will begin Thursday at 10 a.m.
With 130 groups and organizations marching in this year’s event, it’s one of the largest 4th of July Parades in Virginia.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A special agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Prince William County will continue.
The 287 (g) program pairs select members of local law enforcement with federal immigration officials who train them on inquiring about processing the legal statuses of suspected criminals arrested in Prince William County. That program, which was in jeopardy last fall, will continue for the next three years, according to a press release from Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Neighbors and officials are going back and forth over the future of a rural piece of property called “Dove’s’s Landing.”
A rural area about five miles outside Manassas, the nearly 240-acre wooded site sits along the Occoquan River, and boasts views of the Broad and Cedar runs creeks. With nothing more than a cell phone tower on the land leased by Prince William County to Verizon, it’s a quiet cove of nature in one of Virginia’s fastest-growing counties.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Government officials in Prince William County are scrambling for answers after a $5 million budget shortfall appeared.
The error was discovered June 24 and reported late Monday afternoon, after government staffers preparing for the beginning of the new fiscal year — which began yesterday — found a data entry error that caused budget projections for the county’s payroll to be millions off the mark.
