DUMFRIES –The walls of First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries shook as area students demonstrated their shouting renditions of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of peace to celebrate the civil rights leader’s 73rd birthday. “Testaments of hope … Where do we go from here?” was the theme of the 12th annual Martin Luther King…
MANASSAS — Northern Virginia residents escaped winter weather in December but couldn’t elude snow in January as some parts of Prince William County got hit with 3 inches over the weekend. According to the Weather Forecast Office for the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area, Prince William County averages 1 inch of snow in November and 3.1 inches…
Richard La Re Jr., an electrician, was driving to his first job of the morning when a stranger stabbed him in the head on Prince William Parkway on Thursday. But, contrary to the initial police report, a Manassas man attacked La Re with a Phillips screwdriver, not a pen, and caused more damage than originally…
Prince William County received $17.6 million more in second-quarter general revenue income than was budgeted for 2002. Real estate taxes led the way, bringing in $6 million more than budgeted, according to a memo from Finance Director Chris Martino to the county Board of Supervisors. The county was expecting those taxes to generate $237.4 million…
For the last several days, volunteers at shelters across the county have been busy preparing packages for the homeless. In a 24-hour period beginning at midnight Thursday, shelter workers and volunteers will search the woods and abandoned buildings for camps so they can get an accurate count of Prince William County’s unsheltered homeless population. The…