By TIM SWARTZ
Potomac Nationals
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Tommy La Stella drove home three runs and J.R. Graham went six strong innings as the Lynchburg Hillcats snapped their two-game losing streak knocking off the Potomac Nationals by the final score of 6-4. Matt Chaffee picked up his second save of the season striking out the possible tying run in Adrian Sanchez to end the game.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — After a Bank of America in Woodbridge was robbed Thursday afternoon, police quickly apprehended their suspect.
Bank employees told police a man walked into the bank at 13976 Jefferson Davis Highway at 1:36 p.m. and approached the counter, handed the teller a note demanding cash, and then implied he had a weapon but never displayed one. The teller handed over the cash and the man fled the scene, according to police documents.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The stands were packed tonight for the Potomac Nationals’ home opener at Pftizner Stadium in Woodbridge.
The P-Nats took on the Lynchburg Hillcats fresh off their road win Thursday night against the Myrtle Beach Pelicans.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Once a home to a furniture store and to a now demolished stand-alone restaurant, The Ground Round, the Jefferson Plaza shopping center at U.S. 1 and Mount Pleasant Drive in Woodbridge now sits empty and dilapidated. It’s an eyesore that isn’t sharing in the same growth and change taking place next door at Marumsco Plaza, where new retailers and restaurants will join Todos Supermarket.
So, what should happen to this old shopping center? It’s location alongside a busy highway makes it ideal, but for what? New stores? A public building? How about tearing it down and making it a park or open space? Tell us in our comments section below as we hold a public discussion about what should go here.
UPDATE 2:50 p.m.
Police in Woodbridge made an arrest in a bank robbery that took place just before 2 p.m.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Two men associated with the Underground Gangster Crips (UGC) set based in Fairfax County, Va., pled guilty today to their roles in running a prostitution business that recruited and trafficked high school girls.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Attorney General of Virginia, Colonel David Rohrer, Fairfax County Chief of Police, and Ronald T. Hosko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Criminal Division, made the announcement.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The good news for Potomac Nationals baseball fans: You can now get Chick-fil-A sandwiches at Pfitzner Stadium. The bad news for Chick-fil-A fans: You still can’t get them on Sundays.
The minor league baseball club in Woodbridge made the announcement this week on their Facebook page that the famous chicken sandwiches would be sold at the stadium this season. That sparked comments and questions from fans, prompting the team to address the no Chick-fil-A on Sundays rule.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — During the decennial political redistricting process in 2011, no Prince William politician’s district changed as much as Marty Nohe’s.
He’s the Supervisor for the county’s Coles District, which now spans the western portion of Dale City west to the Manassas area. Increasing from 57,000 to 62,000 residents in his district last year, Nohe now represents about 30,000 more residents that he did previously, he said.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — The federal government has given a pass to Prince William County when it comes to officials deciding where voters will go to the polls.
Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted, Prince William and jurisdictions in nine other states had to report changes in voting districts, as well as changes in the hours polling places would be open, even changes in the names of polling places to the federal government, under section five of the Voting Rights Act. The requirement known as “preclearance,” was adhered to as recently as last year during the decennial political redistricting process, when changes to local magisterial districts voted upon by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors was submitted to the federal government for approval.
MURDER CASES AT 10-YEAR LOW
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — In 2011, police in Prince William County investigated and solved three murder cases – the fewest number of murders in the county in 10 years.
