STAFFORD, Va. — After Delegate Mark Dudenhefer stood behind Virginia’s governor and voted for an $800 million transportation reform package last winter, Stafford County will receive some of the spoils.
In a press release today, Dudenhefer, R-Stafford, Woodbridge, outlined $268 million in new transportation funds coming to the county as part of the deal. With it, Stafford County’s six-year transportation plan will be updated to reflect the changes.
DALE CITY, Va. — What once worked in construction zones on the Capital Beltway is now in use on Intestate 95: Orange Cones, No Phones.
The program sponsored by the builders of new Express Lanes coming to the interstate highway is meant to call attention to distracted drivers who use their cell phones to text, email, or talk behind the wheel. With $1 billion in construction happening along 29-mile express lanes corridor from Va. 610 in North Stafford to Edsall Road in Alexandria, officials said drivers need to pay attention while on the roads.
Yard Sale Map for Saturday, May 18, 2013
By URIAH KISER
DUMFRIES, Va. — Just weeks after opening the town’s third public park, Dumfries officials say its time to form a Parks and Recreation Commission.
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By URIAH KISER
Betty Weimer, the General Registrar of Prince William County in the Office of Voter Registrations and Elections, has retired after working for 28 year in the elections office.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Two lanes crash on Interstate 95 at Dumfries has severely slowed traffic this afternoon.
The crash is at mile post 152 south at Va. 234, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Kermit Gosnell, the man who ran the “house of horrors” abortion clinic in Pennsylvania was found guilty on three of four charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of four babies, and on an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death of a Woodbridge woman.
The verdict was handed down today in a Philadelphia courtroom.
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MANASSAS, Va. — Hundreds of Amateur Radio Operators from across Virginia, Maryland and the DC area will come to Manassas to participate in the 39th Annual Manassas Hamfest, which is being sponsored by the Ole Virginia Hams Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
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.
