A pedestrian was killed late Saturday night after being struck by two vehicles in Dumfries. Early Sunday, a separate fatal crash on Interstate 495 in Fairfax County left one driver dead and another charged with driving while intoxicated.
The Dumfries crash involved a man crossing the road outside a marked crosswalk. The Fairfax County crash left a Toyota Camry in flames. Both incidents remain under investigation.
The Fredericksburg Free Press published an exclusive this weekend about hundreds of people who spent time under ICE custody at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford County before being deported. The numbers are real. The data comes from ICE records. And the story still managed to leave out the most basic fact.
These individuals were held because they were in the country illegally.
“Scheduled lane closures for road work in the Fredericksburg District, weather permitting,” the Virginia Department of Transportation reported. Overnight single and double lane closures are set on I-95 near Exit 143 (Aquia/Garrisonville) in Stafford County for pavement markings, with construction-related single and double lane closures plus a temporary on-ramp shutdown at Exit 126; Stafford also faces milling and paving on Route 1, Route 3 and Route 684, guardrail work at the Aquia Creek bridge on Route 610, and pavement operations on Route 630.
Ongoing longer-term projects affecting the area include the Route 1 bridge replacement over Chopawamsic Creek (completion expected June 2028), intersection improvements at Route 1 and Courthouse Road, and the Route 644 (Rock Hill Church Road) bridge replacement that remains closed until June 2027. Drivers should allow extra time and check 511 Virginia for updates.
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Editor’s note: This article was submitted by Sue Nelson Sargent, a Fredericksburg resident who has her finger on the pulse of the community and has previously contributed to Potomac Local News.
The Fredericksburg community was treated to a free evening of live music at downtown’s Hurkamp Park on Thursday when the Fredericksburg Concert Band presented “Dear John” – a breakup letter featuring movie music from composers other than John Williams.
The Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office dropped the remaining charges against Latoya Crabbe on Friday, ending the prosecution in the October 2024 shooting death of her estranged husband, Curtis Crabbe.
In a statement released this afternoon, the office said prosecutors and investigators from the Manassas City Police Department recently accessed a previously unexamined five-hour audio recording recovered from a digital device seized during the investigation. The recording captured conversations and events immediately leading up to the shooting.
Prince William County police investigated a report of shots fired Thursday evening in Nokesville after multiple gunshots were heard in the area. Officers found a shell casing in the roadway but reported no injuries or property damage.
Stafford County deputies arrested two Fredericksburg men for public intoxication late Thursday—one at the Rappahannock Regional Jail lobby and another after a disturbance at a Super 8 motel. Deputies also took a report of check fraud involving an altered check on Payton Drive.
A ribbon-cutting event will be held Monday, August 31, at 3:30 p.m. to mark the completion of the Staffordboro Boulevard Sidewalk Project at the entrance of the Park and Ride lot near the Route 610 intersection, Stafford County reported. The $2.1 million project built approximately 1,200 linear feet of sidewalk between the Juggins Road Connector and Pike Place, along with new crosswalks at road crossings.
The work, finished on schedule this spring with paving completed this summer, is the first of four locally administered road projects under Stafford County’s $70 million investment to improve roads, safety, accessibility and congestion. The new sidewalk connects several communities to existing paths and park-and-ride lots, with ADA-accessible ramps and detectable warning surfaces to better serve pedestrians.
“Prince William County Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny Boddye on Friday called on state leaders to grant local governments explicit authority to defer decisions on high-resource-demand industrial projects such as data centers while officials study water, power and air-quality impacts,” according to a press release from the Occoquan District.
Boddye’s request, which he said he will seek to add to the county’s legislative agenda, comes after Spotsylvania County supervisors voted 4-2 to urge Gov. Abigail Spanberger to enact a statewide data center moratorium so the Commonwealth can study the industry’s future, Fredericksburg Free Press reported.
“Spotsylvania School Board voted 4-3 on Monday against directing staff to develop a policy for pre-employment, suspicionless drug testing of new hires and rehires,” Fredericksburg Free Press reported. The decision, the second consecutive monthly rejection of the idea, came after Chair Megan Jackson switched her position to support the measure while Salem representative Lorita Daniels switched to oppose it; public commenters, including local and state education association leaders, largely opposed the proposal on grounds of privacy, cost, and professional dignity.
The debate stems from a 2024 incident in which a teacher was found with drugs in a Spotswood Elementary classroom and later terminated; the division already conducts suspicion-based testing and has added training since then. Board members remain divided over whether mandatory pre-hire screening would improve student safety or merely signal distrust of educators at a time when Virginia school systems face ongoing staffing and retention pressures.
