MANASSAS, Va. — Police said filed charges against a man they say performed sexual acts on a 13-year-old girl in a Manassas-area hotel.
More in a police press release:
Prince William
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For the first time in 27 years there is comprehensive transportation reform in Virginia.
The state’s Senate approved a new measure during the General Assembly’s final day of regular session on Saturday that raises taxes and would ultimately raise $880 million in new transportation revenues.
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Opinion
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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Drivers headed south on Interstate 95 this upcoming Wednesday and Thursday nights face temporary closures near mile post 148 at Quantico.
A crane will be moved across the highway at the Telegraph Road overpass in Stafford County on both nights. Drivers should expect total but temporary closures of that portion of the interstate, stated the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Megaprojects office.
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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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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.