Virginia started the new year with a resolution to add to its DNA profile bank, despite opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union. Legislation requiring DNA samples from those arrested for violent felonies took effect Jan. 1, after passing with limited opposition in the 2002 General Assembly. Previously, only those defendants convicted of violent felonies…
Jimmy Puckett said he felt like crying when his grandfather, Dan Sauveur, passed out while the two were on their way to Lake Ridge Middle School on Jan. 7 at about 7:30 a.m. Sauveur, 79, was driving 12-year-old Jimmy to school as he does every morning when Jimmy said he noticed his grandfather’s driving was…
An unreported school bus accident has led to an arrest warrant for a Prince William County school bus driver and a letter of apology to parents from the school superintendent. Ruth Guzman of 2225 Montgomery Ave., Woodbridge, was arraigned in Prince William County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on a hit-and-run felony charge Wednesday. If…
Patrick Mulhern, a 15-year veteran of the Prince William County Park Authority, resigned Wednesday during a closed-door meeting of the Park Authority Board. He said Friday that he will be taking a job with the architectural and engineering firm Burgess & Niple, located off Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge, a Columbus, Ohio-based company. An announcement…
A man was shot at about 8 p.m. Thursday night at 14460 Belvedere Drive in Dale City and flown to an area hospital, said 1st Sgt. Kim Chinn, a Prince William police spokeswoman. “He was in his house when he was shot and there was a broken window,” Chinn said at 8:45 p.m. at the…