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A tornado watch is in effect for our region until 11 p.m. Wednesday.
An area of strong storms is expected to to move thorugh our region this afternoon.
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Prince William County’s elected leaders deadlocked over the tax rate.
The majority Republican’s on the county’s top governing body shot down a motion to stick with a pre-approved five-year plan that would have raised the average home owner’s tax bill by $145, to $3,877.
The problems swamping the D.C. region’s transit system are deeper than the public has been led to believe but not insurmountable, according to a report prepared for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) by the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
The third of four suspects in a fall 2015 shooting in Manassas is under arrest.
Manassas City Police press release: (more…)
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Residents will have their chance to speak out on a proposed power line in Haymarket on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.
A series two of public hearings about the 5-mile power line will start at 4:30 p.m., and again at 7 p.m. at Battlefield Senior High School will provide a chance for residents to speak out about the project. The plan calls for constructing 230-kilovolt power line from a substation near the intersection of Interstate 66 and Route 234, and connect it with a soon-to-be built substation near Haymarket.
Police in Prince William County today named suspects in the year’s first homicide.
Here’s more in a press release: (more…)
A woman walked into the new Bar-J restaurant in Occoquan and quickly came right back outside.
“Do you have a takeout menu?” she asked, opting to get her lunch to go due to the scores of people inside.
As we pass the mid-point of this General Assembly session, many bills are moving.
After a 30-minute debate, the Senate approved my bill prohibiting the use of electronic textbooks in public schools without a plan to provide school broadband and digital devices to every student required to use an electronic textbook.
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Fire and rescue crews were called to a blaze in North Stafford on Monday about 8:30 a.m.
Here’s more in a Stafford fire and rescue press release: