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MANASSAS — Following a tradition of hiring 25-year-old coaches, Stonewall Jackson High School has hired former Virginia Tech defensive back Loren Johnson as its first new head football coach since 1977. Johnson, with two years experience as a high school assistant and two as a Hokies’ graduate assistant, becomes the youngest person in his job…
Rounding third
Talk of bringing baseball back to the D.C. metropolitan area is getting serious as Major League officials interviewed local politicians and civic leaders last week. The interviews are being held to see which city is worthy of being the future home of the Montreal Expos – a team dying a slow death. Washington, D.C., Northern…
Manassas Journal Messenger | Finding books at a bargain has benefit, cost
At eBay-hosted Half.com, the company’s name is a humble understatement. The online bookseller, and scores of similar Internet book wholesalers, have built a quiet groundswell among frugal college students seeking ways to stretch their dollars. These services provide college textbooks at pennies on the dollar sometimes of the cost at on-campus bookstores. The migration toward…
Two sought in unrelated shootings
Prince William County police are investigating two separate shootings over the weekend that left two men injured neither fatally according to Sgt. Kim Chinn, a spokeswoman for county police. Shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday, an assailant in a white van fired shots at a 24-year-old man while he was driving in the 7200 block of…
Potomac News Online | Police charge four in drug related charges
A 20-year-old Woodbridge man was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of cocaine in one of four drug related incidents reported by Prince William County police between Monday and Wednesday. • Rasheed Lalputan, 20, of 1817 Halifax Court, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine during a…
Manassas Journal Messenger | Winners and Losers
Winners … Jordan Schneider, who has befriended a 51-year-old Vietnam veteran down on his luck. The veteran lost his lease at the West Gate Apartments in May and has been living in his car ever since. Schneider is hoping to find him a place to live. The veteran has diabetes and lost one of his…