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

From trail and park cleanups and beautification projects to collecting food and toiletries for shelters and veterans, all 35 of Virginia's state parks will offer public service opportunities for the Sept. 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance.

The public can prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs at National Take Back Day Sept. 29. Representatives of Manassas VA city police department, Prince William County police department and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will be at Prince William Hospital in Manassas, Heathcote Health Center in Haymarket and Sentara Lake Ridge in Woodbridge to accept anonymous dropoffs 10 .m. to 2 p.m.

Get ready for Halloween and upcoming holidays by learning to make decorated cookies. Aubergine Chef Jason Shriner will share secrets to successful cookie decorating on Saturday, Sept. 8, with a free class at the Manassas Park VA Community Center. "Admission" will support the center's "kitchen drive," with the donation of new or gently used kitchen equipment.

Manassas VA City Police Department's crime report for Tuesday, Sept. 4 includes larcenies involving a laptop, medication, miscellaneous tools and a red tool box and a fight involving two sets of males, 4-5 in one group, 2 in the other.

After a brief evacuation as a precaution, the Prince William County Fire Department has given Vaughan Elementary School students and staff the "all-clear" to reenter the school building in Woodbridge.

The second Homestead Farm Musical Freestyle Challenge horse show in Catlett VA on Sept. 9 to benefit ovarian cancer research will be dedicated to Marikae Kinross-Wright, the sister of Hoofbeats to Hope’s founder.

Prince William County VA Police Department's crime reports for Tuesday, Sept. 4 include felony child abuse in the case of an eight-month-old baby left strapped in a child's seat in the back seat of a abandoned car that was running, the alleged strangulation of a 16-year-old by a family member and the alleged stabbing of a family member by an 18-year-old.

Students and staff have been evacuated from Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School on York Drive in Woodbridge VA as a precaution, according to the Prince William County Schools community relations office at 12:42 p.m.