PWC Police make arrest in connection with Jan. 9. 2025 shooting.

From March 4-10, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring and his Consumer Protection Section will mark National Consumer Protection Week with a week-long campaign to help Virginians understand their rights as consumers, and to help Virginia businesses understand their responsibilities to their customers.

Each year, an estimated 1.7 million Americans sustain Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. Of those injured, 52,000 die.

In 2018, fifty years after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Virginia Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission will remember his legacy and his influence in Virginia in a series of 12 Community Conversations held in each of the locations across the state that Dr. King visited.

If you want a say in the future of Prince William County's sector plan for Innovation Park, plan to attend the all-day "Town Hall/Charrette" with county staff on Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Patriot High School Cafeteria, 10504 Kettle Run Road, Nokesville, VA 20181. The event consists of exercises, that will use existing documents, maps and background information, to create a vision for the future of Innovation Park.

A newly hired victim’s advocate at the University of Mary Washington is now an additional confidential resource for students at the Fredericksburg, VA college who may have experienced sex- or gender-based violence.

Passion and excellence in the business community were celebrated Feb. 28 when the Prince William Chamber of Commerce held its annual Business Awards banquet at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas.

Classroom teacher turned Virginia Secretary of Education, Atif Qarni, has not forgotten his students. Qarni started the school year as an eighth-grade civics teacher at Beville Middle School in Prince William County. After winning the November Gubernatorial Election, Ralph Northam appointed Qarni to the state’s top educational post in Richmond. Shortly after settling in, he invited his former students to his new home.

Samantha Boateng organized the Read2Lead campaign as her International Baccalaureate (IB) Studies Creativity Activity Service Project at Gar-Field High School. She began collecting book donations to send to Ghana. With help from her school community, the campaign was a huge success and it inspired her to go a step further. She founded the Read2Lead non-profit organization.