Manassas City Police confirmed a shooting Friday night in Old Town during First Friday and asked the public to stay away from the scene.
Lt. Jonathan Casteline, the night watch commander, said in a 10:28 p.m. alert that police are investigating a confirmed shooting in the Old Town Manassas area. The investigation is active and ongoing, he said.
An overturned tractor-trailer has closed all southbound travel lanes of Interstate 95 at mile marker 145 in Stafford County, the Virginia Department of Transportation said Friday night.
The crash is about 1.3 miles north of Exit 143 (Garrisonville Road / Aquia), VDOT’s I-95 alert feed said. Traffic was being squeezed past the scene on the left shoulder. About four miles of congestion was building toward the wreck as of VDOT’s 8:19 p.m. alert.
Spotsylvania deputies arrested a 30-year-old Spotsylvania man Friday morning after a vehicle pursuit, ending a joint search tied to two sexual assaults at massage businesses on Plank Road.
Cesar Mario Torres Juarez was the only person in the vehicle and was taken into custody without further incident, the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies are seeking additional charges related to the chase.
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Stafford County supervisors on Sept. 1 directed staff toward letters asking Gov. Abigail Spanberger for a special legislative session on data-center rules — and, if comprehensive legislation cannot pass quickly, a temporary pause on new large-scale approvals — then expanded the ask to the federal administration.
The board did not vote that night to approve or deny any campus. Supervisors said their own ordinance — which Chairman Deuntay T. Diggs, George Washington District, called the strictest in Virginia and Supervisor Crystal L. Vanuch, Rock Hill District, said includes among the largest setbacks in the country — still cannot stop river withdrawals, well impacts, or high-load power costs that land on ratepayers.
Dumfries Town Council on Sept. 1 laid out a September calendar of volunteer home repairs, a slave cemetery stone dedication, a community-versus-police basketball night, and a late-month economic-mobility kickoff.
Councilman Russell A. Young announced Labor of Love Weekend, a town community-service initiative that helps eligible homeowners complete minor repairs and improvements at no labor cost.
Fredericksburg City Council treated the Technology Overlay District as a political promise, not just a zoning map, when it voted 7-0 after midnight to keep a data center off the Hylton tract.
The Aug. 25-26 votes denied a rezoning and a height permit for 1500 Gateway along Interstate 95, between Plank Road and Cowan Boulevard. Council did not say the overlay text itself banned the site. Members who passed the TOD in 2025, and one who was not on the dais then, said they had already told residents where data centers would go.
Amazon pulled a contested King George groundwater request, House Speaker Don Scott told regulators a Dominion-NextEra merger must not raise rates, and local schools will be closed Friday for the Labor Day weekend.
Amazon Withdraws Groundwater Permit Bid for King George Data Center
A Maryland tractor-trailer driver died Thursday morning after his rig left Interstate 95 northbound and struck the Courthouse Road overpass in Stafford County, Virginia, State Police said.
The crash happened about 11:20 a.m. at the 140-mile marker, at Exit 140. Troopers identified the driver as Derek P. Volkmer, 40, of Glen Burnie, Maryland. Volkmer died at the scene, according to a 5:42 p.m. update from Virginia State Police Public Relations Coordinator Matthew Demlein.
