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STAFFORD, Va. — Stafford residents got their first look at the County Administrator’s proposed $261 million budget for FY2015 Tuesday night.

The plan calls for increased funding for road construction projects, park improvements, and a the installation of a new computer-aided 911 dispatch system to be used by the sheriff’s office and fire and rescue department.


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MANASSAS, Va. — On February 21 shortly before 9 p.m., Irene Coca’s life changed forever when three armed men entered Platanillos Grocery and Jewelry in Woodbridge and shot Coca’s daughter, killing her.

Glenda Marisol Coca-Romero had only been in the U.S. for a year and a half, according to her father. She was a nice girl who loved to talk to customers at the store where she worked.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William officials must now decide if they are going borrow money to fund the remainder of a long wish list of improvements at county parks.

Officials must act by November 2016 to borrow up to $13.7 million to fund improvements such as adding new playing fields or lighting to existing fields. When the option to take out a bond to fund the improvements was advertised, and ultimately approved by voters eight years ago, officials said the money could be used to expand indoor swimming pools at the Chinn Fitness and Aquatics Center in Woodbridge and the Ben Lomond Community Center near Manassas.


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MANASSAS, Va. — A Dollar General store in Manassas is expected to close its doors by the end of the month.

The store is located in the Davis Ford Shopping Center next to a new LA Fitness gym that recently opened at the intersection of Prince William Parkway and Wellington Liberia Avenue in Manassas.


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MANASSAS PARK, Va. — Manassas Park is one of the safest places to live in Virginia, according to real estate blog Movoto.

Editors at the site looked at FBI crime data from 2012 and compared the number of incidents and the population of a given place. The editors looked at towns with 10,000 or more people living there.


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