An American Life

By BRIAN HUNSICKER [email protected] Brandon Lawn, a rising senior and standout wrestler at Colonial Forge, was killed in an apparent job-related accident in Stafford County on Tuesday. A spokesperson at the Occupational Safety & Health Administration office in Richmond said an accident involving a fatality had been reported late Tuesday afternoon, and OSHA began an…

WOODBRIDGE — Tom Bizzarri didn’t know it at the time, but he became a football player the day he was cut from his club soccer team. For a kid who had been on traveling all-star soccer teams since he was 9 years old, not making the 16-and-under Prince William Soccer Inc., Spartans was a gigantic…

Convicted child rapist Russell John Smith cut his wrists Thursday night — half a day before his sentencing — with a piece of tin foil he got from a juice carton. At his Friday sentencing in Prince William County Circuit Court, his lawyer Myron Berman pointed to the marks on Smith’s wrists as one example…

Haymarket Mayor John R. “Jack” Kapp announced he will be leaving office, effective Aug. 28, at Monday’s Town Council meeting. Though Kapp has been mayor for 13 years, his announcement is not entirely surprising since his house has been on the market for more than a month. Kapp said he and his wife Shirley are…

A ninth-grader at Woodbridge Senior High School has been hospitalized with bacterial meningitis. While the student has not been publicly identified, school officials have notified parents of children who may have had a class with the teen or the student’s siblings at Fredland Elementary and Kilby Elementary schools. To prevent other students from contracting the…

There are many legends in America that transcend generations through myth and folklore. There’s Bigfoot in the wilderness country of the great Northwest, Chessie, the Chesapeake Bay’s version of the Loch Ness Monster, and rail to Dulles. When regional officials cleared land on the edge of Loudoun County five decades ago to build Dulles International…