A 24-year-old Herndon woman was arrested after allegedly abducting her friend’s 5-year-old child while the mother was asleep early Thursday morning in Lake Ridge, Prince William County police said. The child was returned a few hours later after an anonymous tipster told police the woman took the child to Washington, D.C., said Sgt. Dennis Mangan,…
The past few years have been a period of super-puberty for real estate values in Northern Virginia. And no area jurisdiction has been more affected by the assessment growth spurt than Manassas Park; during 2004, residential property in the city increased in value by an average of 28 percent. The growth in real estate value,…
WASHINGTON — With street gangs increasingly violent and pervasive in Virginia, Republican Rep. J. Randy Forbes of Chesapeake led colleagues yesterday in declaring “war on gangs.” Forbes, of the 4th District, used a Capitol news conference to spotlight his new national anti-gang legislation for mandatory minimum federal sentences for gang crimes, hiring new federal prosecutors…
For weeks now, weve heard Dave Leitaos name a jillion times in relation to Virginias basketball coaching vacancy. But what do we really know about the man? Well, he grew up under the wing of Connecticuts Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun and rebuilt the DePaul program after cleaning up its academic train wreck left…
After prosecutors and defense attorneys rested Wednesday, the defense attorney for the Manassas man accused of murdering his wife and dumping her body in Washington, D.C., asked that the charge against his client be dismissed. Defense attorney Jon E. Shields urged Circuit Court Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. to dismiss the first-degree murder charge for…