Boxerjam – Games

There are stories about some groups that wager in what’s called a “death pool.” Participants usually put up some money (like a football pool) and dole out winnings based on who predicted which celebrities will die during a certain year. There have undoubtedly been participants who have picked Bob Hope or Buddy Ebsen this year….

Deborah Vaughan’s ancestors came to Jamestown hundreds of years ago to escape discrimination, she said at a town hall meeting Tuesday night. But purchasing a house and living in Virginia has made Vaughan and her partner Jennifer Randolph wonder if they have to face a similar fate. A bill passed last year by the General…

Stepping to the lectern at a Prince William Board of County Supervisors meeting to talk about the death of her husband on Sept. 11 was no easy task for Laurie Laychak. But she did it because she wants to bring recognition to the contribution those at the Pentagon made and help people to remember that…

Larry Bill Elliott stood straight and stone-faced as a jury pronounced him guilty in the slayings of a young Rollingwood Village couple a crime he could pay for with his life. Robert Finch, 30, and Dana Thrall, 25, were murdered in their home on Jousters Way in the early morning hours of Jan. 2, 2001….

Promises of substantial open space in a transit-oriented community couldn’t convince the Prince William County Planning Commission to approve a planned mixed residential development adjacent to Manassas Park. The Planning Commission held public hearings on both a Comprehensive Plan Amendment and a rezoning application for Walker’s Station on Wednesday night. The approximately 40-acre county parcel…

County Executive Craig S. Gerhart wants to create two new full-time positions strictly to handle Prince William’s new cable TV contract. The positions, which are included in the county’s $538 million operating budget set to be passed Tuesdaywill cost the county $92,000, including benefits, for a half year in fiscal 2003. Base salaries are $38,517….