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Updated Oct. 31, 2026: This story has been updated to reflect that the crash happened in the Yorkshire area of Prince William County. Police used a Manassas postal address.
Prince William County police say a 33-year-old Manassas man died early Saturday after his car crossed into oncoming traffic on Centreville Road and struck another vehicle.
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Stafford County Fire and Rescue units responded just after 2:45 p.m. Friday to a structure fire on Basalt Drive near Stafford Village Parkway. First-arriving crews found heavy fire and smoke at the front and rear of a two-story single-family home and brought the blaze under control in about an hour.
One person was home and self-evacuated before firefighters arrived. Three occupants were displaced and are receiving help from the American Red Cross. One firefighter went to the hospital for evaluation of non-life-threatening injuries. The Stafford County Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating. The release does not give a cause, an exact street address, the ages of those displaced, or the extent of damage.
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High school students from across the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region are invited to participate in Dialogue for Democracy at George Mason University!
Hosted by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, this event offers high school students an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations about democracy, civic engagement, and the importance of understanding different perspectives.
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Police Blotter: Stafford inmate charged in murder-for-hire plot against victim from his earlier case
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A Stafford man already jailed on sexual assault and obscenity charges is now accused of trying to arrange the murder of the victim in his earlier case, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
Earlier this year, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to a possible murder-for-hire plot involving an incarcerated man, according to a Friday press release.
The Virginia Department of Transportation listed scheduled lane closures for road work in the Fredericksburg, Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula areas for Nov. 1–6, weather permitting.
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Residents and grassroots groups held a roughly 40-minute press conference Thursday evening outside the NTT data center complex at 13710 Daves Store Lane in Gainesville to call for a 12-month pause on new data center applications that require a vote by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. Organizers said the pause is needed so the county can update buffers, setbacks, noise rules, lighting standards, and other protections before more projects advance.
Speakers included Rina Stapp of Save Braemar, Carolee Carrington of Wentworth Green, Catherine Kulik of the HOA Roundtable, Patrick Harters, and Dalton Nichols of the Occoquan District. They described impacts from noise and large industrial fans, light trespass and non-dark-sky-compliant fixtures, diesel generators, power demand they said is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of homes for this campus alone, rising electricity bills, and proximity to homes, schools, and the Occoquan Reservoir Protective Area.
Route 1 traffic near Quantico will be reduced to two lanes overnight next week while crews install new bridge beams, the Virginia Department of Transportation said.
Starting Wednesday, Nov. 4 through early Friday, Nov. 6, Route 1 will be reduced to two travel lanes near Russell Road between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. each evening so crews can install the beams, weather permitting. The work is part of the replacement of the 93-year-old bridge over Chopawamsic Creek at the Stafford County and Prince William County line.
Early FY27 numbers show the county is still waiting on the large property-tax payments that will reflect the higher rate supervisors set in April, while the same unfunded disabled-veterans mandate that drove that increase continues to grow by about $400,000 a month.
Stafford County Budget Director Jeff Stamp presented first-quarter FY2027 results to the Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20. The general fund adjusted budget for total revenues and other financing sources is $509.8 million. First-quarter collections were $21.1 million, or 4.1 percent of the adjusted budget.