An American Life

Robert Craig Elkins, 46, and his 17-year-old stepdaughter Jessica Ashley Dudley, of Triangle and Bealeton, respectively, died in a Sunday crash on Vint Hill Road in Fauquier County, when a van made a left turn in front of them, state police said Tuesday. Royce Kim Rollins, 42, turned left onto Va. 652 at about 25…

Defense attorneys for the Maryland man accused of stalking women along Route 29 are seeking to bar testimony from prosecution witnesses who were hypnotized eight years ago to enhance their memories. Two women, victims of the Route 29 stalker in 1996, testified Thursday at a pretrial hearing that they had undergone hypnosis therapy to try…

It’s hard to pack for vacation when no one in the family knows where they’re going, how long they’ll be there and what they’ll do. The Black family of Woodbridge – Reggie and Kimberly, and their children Kenneth and Austin – faced that dilemma with the hopes of winning a $1 million prize at the end…

There are many private, nonprofit groups in the Prince William area that provide assistance to people in need of housing, clothing, food, shelter and substance abuse treatment. The Prince William Department of Social Services has many programs available including long- and short-term financial assistance, counseling, child and adult protective services, crisis hotlines and services for…

AUDIO SLIDESHOW Christmas Together, with music from the Manassas Community Chorale Ensemble RELATED  ARMY RECIPE: Sweet potato pie for 100 WASHINGTON – Tabari Moore plans to wake up Christmas Day before 5 a.m., long before the sun rises. It will be a busy day. He is cooking for several hundred Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen at…

It’s an irksome ritual requiring the suppleness of a yoga master, the annual occasion when you nearly pop your shoulder from its socket to stretch across the car dashboard and — careful with that razor blade! — scrape the old decal from your windshield. Then you repeat the knuckle-busting contortion in order to stick on…