By URIAH KISER
DALE CITY, Va. — As the call for gun buybacks gets louder, Prince William County’s leader said politicians should stop making a tragedy in Connecticut a political issue.
Originals
By JEFF IRWIN
Prince William Conservation Alliance
The rapid development and modernization of Prince William County can challenge even the most astute observer’s sense of history. Shopping plazas, crowded roads and sprawling housing developments dominate the landscape. Stories of ancient Indian settlement, colonization and frontier communities, slavery and war, early industry and intensive farming permeate our local history, but the past is sometimes hard to see for the present.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Area baseball fans have been promised that a new stadium for the Potomac Nationals will be a hot venue.
Now, fans will have their first, up close look at rendering of the ballpark planned for Potomac Town Center in Woodbridge later this month at the team’s annual Hot Stove Banquet.
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Ruby Tuesday CEO and President James “JJ” Buettgen said he’s proud lead the restaurant chain, but times are tough and that’s why the company decided to shed all 13 Marlin and Rays seafood restaurants.
DALE CITY, Va. — A new Americans in Wartime Museum hopes planes and tanks will draw automobiles.
Groundwork preparation for the $80 million facility has already begun on a 70-acre site behind a K-Mart store on Dale Boulevard in Dale City. The museum, once complete, will tell the story of people who fought in every U.S. war since World War I, as well as first responders on the homefront, featuring fully restored military vehicles, a “landscapes of war” exhibit that will allow visitors to experience what war fighting conditions were like on the ground and in the trenches, and the museum will feature tours and lectures led by wartime veterans.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Police in Prince William County asked anyone who saw the fatal crash involving Motor Officer Chris Yung to come forward with details.
Investigators are hoping to learn more about the crash that took the life of the 35-year-old police veteran on New Year’s Eve. Yung was responding to a separate crash with lights and sirens activated on his police motorcycle when he collided with a minivan on Va. 28 and Piper Lane near Manassas. The two occupants inside the van were not injured and no charges have been filed in the crash.
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By CHARLIE GRYMES
PRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE CHAIRMAN
A starfish opens a clam by attacking its “feet” to the shell, then pulling steadily until the clam finally tires and the starfish succeeds in getting a meal.
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By URIAH KISER
DALE CITY, Va. — On the day NHL players and league officials broke the ice on a new deal to end a nearly five month player lockout, one of the greatest to ever play the game came to Dale City to give back.
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MANASSAS, Va. — Helicopters will be buzzing once again in the Manassas area on Monday.
This time, pilots will be flying the choppers with crews from Dominion Virginia Power onboard. They’ll be checking power lines, and replacing insulators on those transmission lines in the area, said Dominion Virginia Power spokeswoman Le-Ha Anderson.
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Story By URIAH KISER
Photos By MARY DAVIDSON