Manassas City Police are searching for a man they identified as Marvin Grant after a shooting Wednesday morning in the 9400 block of Wellington Road.
Police set a 9:30 a.m. press conference at The Shop Gym, 9311 Wellington Road, and told media to stage there.
Prince William County Fire & Rescue will host its 3rd Annual Expo and Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, from noon to 5 p.m. at Pfitzner Stadium in Woodbridge.
The free event marks Fire Prevention Week and includes apparatus displays, food trucks, live music, and family activities.
House of Mercy, Prince William County’s largest food pantry, launched a $350,000 “Room for Mercy” campaign Tuesday to lease 4,500 square feet of adjacent space in Manassas after warehouse storage shrank this summer. The Manassas nonprofit says the 30-day drive ends Oct. 31 and would restore thrift-store floor space now used for overflow, protect Christmas with Mercy gifts for more than 1,300 children, and let the pantry become a client-choice market.
House of Mercy Launches Urgent $350,000 Campaign to Solve Storage Crisis and Launch Full-Choice Pantry
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a time for commemorating our ancestors. Rather than a period of mourning, it is an occasion for celebrating with family—both living and dead—and honoring the cycle of life. Learn about La Catrina and her joyful view of life and mortality. Enjoy family-friendly activities throughout the day, including dance performances, coloring activities, and paper marigold and mask making. Visitors are invited to leave photos and mementos of their loved ones on the ofrenda (altar) or commemorate them by writing their names on a butterfly to attach to the memorial arch.
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Fall is in its full glory every first Saturday in October with our Manassas Fall Jubilee and 2026 marks the 43rd one! This community-spirited festival spans all of Center Street and side streets, and includes an assortment of fun for kids and adults with over 100 craft and community booths, live music and entertainment, food, and more. Live music ranges from pop to rock to heavy metal, and dance performances include ballet, clogging, and belly dancing. And, the kids will enjoy a meet & greet with Cinderella, pumpkin painting, games, and more!
America Nepal Helping Society, a Manassas nonprofit founded in 2008, says it raised and delivered $92,964 from 167 donors for flood and landslide relief in Nepal’s Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi region. A Virginia delegation presented the check to Nepal’s government in New York during a meeting with Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal at a program hosted by the Consulate General of Nepal, the group said in a press release forwarded Sunday by Sen. Danica Roem.
America Nepal Helping Society in Virginia Raises $92,964 for Nepal Flood and Landslide Relief
Prince William planners say two Dumfries-area data-center filings next to Four Seasons still have “substantial issues,” a man once sentenced to death in a 2001 Bristow killing walked out of jail Monday after 25 years, Amazon settled with King George on the Birchwood campus, and Manassas Council will hear interim-mayor applicants Oct. 5.
According to InsideNoVa, Prince William planning staff told two developers that separate applications for a total of six data centers beside the Four Seasons at Historic Virginia 55-and-over community off Interstate 95 have “substantial issues and deficiencies” and cannot be supported in their current form. William Cooley of Atlantic Funding LLC filed a solo application May 22 for a 60-acre site at 16251 Dumfries Road; Barrie Peterson of Southgate Business LLC filed June 3 on a neighboring 79-acre parcel.
Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said a suspect in a Sept. 21 robbery at a Chatham Heights Road massage spa was arrested after investigators determined the suspect had stolen money from the business on multiple occasions. The report also includes Michael C. Davis’s 178-year sentence, a Virginia State Police account of a triple-fatal crash on the Interstate 395 exit ramp at Shirlington Road, and Stafford’s Sept. 29 daily incident report, which listed three fraud complaints and a public-intoxication arrest.
The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney said Michael C. Davis, 38, was sentenced Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, by Judge Kimberly A. Irving to 258 years with 80 years suspended, leaving 178 years to serve.
Michelle Davis-Younger spent her last night as mayor listening to other people tell her who she had been.
They called her Mayor Parks. She called herself Mrs. Parks. The city website still says Davis-Younger. The letter on file says she is done Wednesday, Sept. 30 — three months earlier than the December exit she announced in February, and two years short of the term she won in 2024.
Three local shelter pets are waiting for a home this Take Me Home Tuesday.
Spotsylvania Animal Shelter is looking for a home for Fendi, an about-2-year-old smaller Corso who weighs about 75–80 pounds. The shelter is at 450 TV Drive, Fredericksburg. Call 540-507-7459 to schedule a visit or email [email protected].
A Bison Celebration is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The Bison Celebration will be a full day event that brings together organizations, scholars, scientists and filmmakers to celebrate the past, present, and future of North America’s largest land mammal. Through captivating films and thought-provoking panel discussions, the museum will explore the bison’s vital role in restoring grassland ecosystems and its deep spiritual connection to Tribal nations.
