Update
Police released photos from a robbery that occurred Saturday at a Burke and Herbert bank branch on Smoketown Road in Woodbridge.
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Prince William
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Local Voices Square Off on Higher Taxes, Business Development
By URIAH KISER
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While it appears Virginia’s leaders have come to an agreement on a new transportation funding bill, not all local voices agree with the new legislation awaiting approval from both the state Sentate and House of Delegates.
The new bill approved by Virginia’s General Assembly will is expected to raise nearly $900 million for transportation revenue, and would replace a 17.5 cent tax per gallon of gas – a rate not touched since 1986 – and replace it with a 3.5 cent wholesale gas tax.
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By CINDY BROOKSHIRE
For Potomac Local News
MANASSAS, Va. — Leaders from Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park wrangled with pressing issues like sequestration’s impact on the area, and how to fund transportation, at Wednesday “State of Prince William.”
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Submitted News
Francisco Cirilio Vargas-Aquino, aka “Francisco C. Vargas,” and “Miguel,” 48, of Manassas, Va., and Ricardo Avelar Valdez, 47, of Gainesville, Va., have been arrested for their alleged roles in a marijuana smuggling operation based in Northern Virginia that has attempted to smuggle several multi-thousand pound loads of marijuana from Mexico to Prince William County.
Submitted News
Local Prince William County first-grader Adrian Fucito gets his big Hollywood break playing Janeane Garofalo’s son in Bad Parents, a witty new satirical comedy film about sports parents behaving badly and a suburban mom who relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous “win at all costs” behavior spirals out of control.
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Update 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
A man was shot and killed while walking his dog in Woodbridge last night. A suspect is in custody and is charged with murder.
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Update
The driver that police said slammed into the back of four cars causing a chain reaction crash and then fled the scene turned himself in to police.
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GAINESVILLE, Va. – It’s happened again – a trailer that was stopped on train tracks at U.S. 29 in Gainesville was swiped by a train.
No one was injured, but the accident has forced the closure of a portion of the busy commuter route just south of Interstate 66 near the Virginia Gateway shopping center. Police said the closed portion of the roadway will remain that way for at least another two to three hours while an investigation takes place.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — On their fifth try Tuesday, Prince William officials approved a hotly debated new property tax rate to advertise to the public. Now the rate will be debated once more at a public hearing scheduled in April.
Here’s more in a press release from Prince William County: