TRIANGLE, Va. — Two cars were hit by falling power lines this morning on Interstate 95 at Triangle. The Power lines were accidentally cutby crews working to build toll lanes on Interstate 95.
No injuries were reported.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The Prince William County Human Rights Commission will meet on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the James J. McCoart Building. At the meeting, the Electoral Board will present information on the 2012 Presidential Election and some new guidelines that all voting citizens need to know before Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.
The chairman of the Electoral Board, Keith Scarborough, and the board members will discuss four items – 1) are you registered to vote at your current address; 2) has your polling place been changed; 3) do you have an acceptable form of identification; and 4) do you qualify to vote absentee?
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DALE CITY, Va. — Would a free haircut for your child come in handy for back to school time?
Hair Cuttery stores partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs in Prince William County and Manassas to provide free haircuts to the first 40 people under age 18 who signed up. According to their website, Hair Cuttery agreed to issue gift cards for those who signed up for the free cuts.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — For the first time, regional transit agencies are partnering to bring more vanpool options to the region.
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DUMFIRES, Va. — The idea of a new business park in place to be built after a landfill closes was floated in Dumfries on Tuesday.
The Potomac Landfill, a debris collection yard that sits at the junction of Interstate 95 and Va. 234, proposed growing upward, filling in debris piles as tall as 310 feet. If approved by the Town Council, the landfill will maintaining the 38 acres it sits on now and leave at least 19 unused acres untouched in which to build on.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — Four youth interns who worked with Dumfries officials in the public works, police, zoning, economic development, and other departments of the town government, capped their summer at a special luncheon on Friday.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — The good news: readers will have new carpet to walk on. The bad: the Dumfries Library must close for carpet installation August 30 and 31.
The library will reopen Tuesday Sept. 4 at 10 a.m., said according to a press release from the library.
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UPDATE Monday, Aug. 20
Clarence E. Alston, 42, of Washington, D.C., was standing outside his car that was stopped on the right shoulder of northbound I-95 at the 162 mile marker. A northbound Hyundai Santa Fe struck Alston. The Hyundai then fled the scene. The vehicle and its driver, Carol Rood-Johnson, 19, of Woodbridge, Va., were located later Saturday morning in Prince Georges County, Md.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — There could soon be mountains in Dumfries where there once was none.