ARLINGTON — Many who gathered near the Pentagon early Wednesday said they came to make sure the horror they saw on television the last 24 hours was real. Some took pictures of the gaping hole in the building. A U.S. flag waved on top of the building amid a hazy cloud of smoke. One woman…
WOODBRIDGE — Prince William County is applying to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for $155,000 in reimbursement for expenses it incurred while sending fire-and-rescue and police personnel to the Pentagon. “A large portion of the FEMA request was for regular salaries and overtime of people who had to go to the Pentagon,” said Dana Fenton,…
Gainesville residents opposed to a plan to designate their African-American community a heritage park presented their concerns to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors this week, calling it racist and discriminatory. The plan was forwarded by longtime Gainesville resident Robert Moler, and other concerned Gainesville residents, who say a sector plan offered by a…
Imagine Osama bin Laden and his associates were hiding in the mountains in Pennsylvania, and you have relatives there. The United States is dropping bombs and running air raids over a broad area of the state, hoping to take out the terrorists and destroy their communication and military infrastructure. Innocent Pennsylvanians might be killed even…
Robert Mayo ducked his head against Saturdays stiff wind and peered from beneath his black Pittsburgh Steelers stocking cap as he drove a pink-and-white little-engine-that-could around one of the softball infields at Pfitzner Stadium Complex in Woodbridge. Behind him, in the open cars, mothers encouraged the children in their laps to wave at those who…