Bristow resident Mona Shaw jokes that her “15 minutes of fame has spread to about 30.” The 75-year-old had quite the surprise waiting after she returned home from a weekend trip. Shaw, who was arrested for disturbing the peace at the Manassas Comcast office in August, had an answering machine full of messages and media…
Almost four decades after Virginia began emptying the teeming mental wards of its state hospitals, jails across Virginia now house more people with mental illness than state and private hospitals combined. Of the 6,350 mentally ill people in hospitals or jails on a single day two years ago, 60 percent were in jails. And 43…
More than 250 cars, trucks, vans and small business vehicles took to the roads of Prince William County on Tuesday with messages rallying support for immigrants scrawled across fenders, bumpers and doors. Hundreds of people rode in the caravan, organized by Mexicans Without Borders, a human rights organization that has mobilized residents this year in…
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, whose district serves southern Prince William County, died Saturday morning at her Gloucester home after a battle with breast cancer. She was 57. Davis was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and had a re-occurrence earlier this year. She had been undergoing treatment at Duke University and was doing…
The parking lot and shops at the Grant Avenue Shopping Center in Manassas was nearly empty around lunch time Tuesday as area many legal and illegal immigrants participated in a county-wide work stoppage to protest Prince William proposed crack down on illegal immigrants. On a typical day, the parking lot of the center, which contains…