PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Of the two freeze warnings issued for area in as many days, they have come early in the fall season. Could this be a sign of a cold winter ahead?

For the those who need fuel to heat their homes, the Virginia Department of Social Services is now accepting applications from low-income households to help them stay warm.


DALE CITY, Va. — Bill Clinton will come to Dale City to campaign for Terry McAuliffe on Sunday.

The president will stop at various locations across the state to stump for the Democratic candidate who is facing Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for the top job in Richmond.


HAYMARKET, Va. — Jay Tobias, Haymarket’s vice mayor, was censured and is now forced to pay a $250 fine for alleged misconduct stemming from public intoxication charges filed on the day of the town’s largest public celebration.

Town officials Monday voted 4-3 to force Tobias to pay the fine on our before Oct. 21. Officials also censured Planning Commission and former Town Council member Robert Wier after Mayor David Leake pressed charges on him, claiming he was standing on a public street in mid conversation when Wier walked up to him and began cursing at him.


PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Who shot a woman in the leg while she was watching her child’s soccer game?

Police said the 43-year-old victim, of Gainesville, was sitting in a chair at George Hellwig Memorial Park at 14418 Bristow Road at Independent Hill and felt a sharp pain in her right thigh. She thought it might have been a BB or some other kind of small projectile that hit her, but doctors determined she had been shot with a smaller caliber bullet, possibly a .22 round, a police report stated.


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