WOODBRIDGE, Va. – A homeless woman was raped while inside of her tent in Woodbridge.
Police said the victim was asleep at an homeless encampment in the area of Potomac Mills Road and Town Center Drive at when a man she knew entered the tent and raped her at 4:11 a.m. The man then fled the area and then turned himself into police a short time later.
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TRIANGLE, Va. – In an effort to bring attention to the ever-increasing problem of human trafficking, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Triangle, Va., will offer human trafficking awareness presentations at the parish after all the Masses on the weekend of May 18-19, 2013.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Beating back political opponents who might call it an unpopular decision, Prince William Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart led the conversation to restore a drug rehabilitation inside an area jail.
The DORM program, known at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center in Manassas as the Drug Rehabilitation Module, had its funding restored for the coming fiscal year. To get there, leaders made $635,000 in cuts in other areas of the county’s budget, including a decision to put off the hiring of a deputy county executive, cuts to a public health program, cuts to transportation monies doled out by County Supervisors in their respective magisterial districts, and a $50,000 reduction in funding to the Hylton Performing Arts Center.
OPINION
This news website covered the Prince William Chamber of Commerce’ Legislative wrap-up earlier this week. I attended. For full disclosure, I am a Charter Founding Member of the Prince William Chamber of Commerce, and serve on the Government Affairs Committee. I did not participate in this years score card exercise.
Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold a reception Saturday at the Fairfax County Government Center to recognize 43 students from Fairfax and Prince William in the 11th Congressional District who will be entering the military service academies in the fall.
The 11th Congressional District of Virginia regularly sends one of the largest contingents of high school seniors on to the service academies.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Traveling Interstate 95 in our area tonight? Watch out for more closures on the HOV lanes from Dumfries to Washington.
Starting at 11 p.m., the HOV lanes will close until 10 a.m. Saturday, when the lanes will reopen at the Franconia-Springfield Parkway for drivers headed south into Prince William County. The northern section of the lanes from Springfield to Washington will stay closed until 5 p.m. that afternoon, when the lanes will reopened in their entirety in the northbound direction, according to a press release from the Virginia Megaprojects office.
News from Content Partner Boys and Girls Club
Who are some of the area’s top basketball elite perimeter shooters? Using the state of the art G Team Sports Professional Shooting Machine, the Prince William/Manassas Boys & Girls Clubs will find out on May 15, 16 and 17.
MANASSAS, Va. — The Prince William County and Manassas public schools Robotics programs, and the Manassas City Orchestra will be blending two seemingly different worlds – classical music and robotics – on Saturday in their first program, “Bach to the Future.”
By ANNIE BLEWETT
Farmer’s Market Coordinator
Many of my favorite memories with family and friends involve food.
