Police centered their search for a suspect in an armed robbery this morning on a homeless camp in Woodbridge.
Police said a man displayed a handgun and took someone’s car keys in the area of Noblewood Plaza, outside a Lowes store.
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The National EMS Memorial Tree of Life on Display at the Stafford County Public Safety Center honors two Stafford EMS providers who lost their lives while trying to help others.
Here’s more in a press release:
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Should Godwin Drive be linked with Interstate 66? That’s the question a new $2.5 million study will examine.
Transportation planners from Prince William County and Manassas City will study the “Flat Branch” corridor between where Godwin Drive intersects with Sudley Road just outside Manassas, near Novant Prince William Medical Center.
Manassas City Police Detective David Abbott was a 16-year ice hockey coach with the Potomac Patriots, a youth team that plays at the Prince William Ice Center in Dale City.
Abbott, a Manassas officer since 2001, turned a gun on himself Tuesday morning and killed himself after police officers came to his home to serve him with a search warrant. Police said Abbott was charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a minor, and that he had inappropriate relationships with two teenage boys.
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A woman in her mid-20s committed suicide at a public gun range on Tuesday.
Stafford authorities were called to The Range at 62 Potomac Creek Drive in Stafford County at 3 p.m. to investigate the incident.
Ruth Anderson will soon be the Occoquan District Supervisor for the Prince William County Board of Supervisors.
She also knows her history when it comes to the attack on Pearl Harbor, as this submission from the Freedom Museum in Manassas explains:
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Prince William County Public Schools report the secure the building status has been lifted at all schools affected: C.D. Hylton High School, and Rosa Parks, McAuliffe, and Enterprise elementary schools.
Police are on the scene of a burglary in the 5600 block of Roundtree Lane in Dale City.
The volunteers at Stafford Volunteer Fire Department will once again this year bring Santa Claus on a tour through neighborhoods in Stafford County.
The volunteers will travel through neighborhoods starting on Thursday, December 17 through the weekend. Officials said look for the lights and sirens coming through the neighborhood, and then come outside and see Santa Claus.
Stafford Sheriff Charles “Charlie” Jett will say goodbye tonight.
A special meet and greet is planned at the Stafford County Public Safety Center from 4 to 7 p.m. where at least 300 people are expected to come and shake the hand of the veteran sheriff who has spent a lifetime serving the department, and as county sheriff since 2000.
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Fire investigators at 11 a.m. were on the scene of a major house fire doused earlier this morning.
Two firefighters became trapped when they went inside one of the four homes affected by the blaze to look for a female that had already made it safely out of the house. The two firefighters escaped the burning blaze through a window of the home, said Manassas Fire Marshal Frank Teevan.