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Developers who want to get their building plans reviewed by the county may have a wait, as the building development division reorganizes, hires more people and tries to wade through a backlog of old applications. The building industry, which has gone from boom to bust to boom since the early 1990’s, is playing havoc with…

Woman hit by beer bottle, taken to Potomac Hospital A 41-year-old woman was hit in the head with a Corona beer bottle while she was running in the 2200 block of York Drive in Woodbridge at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Prince William police said Friday. A gold sport utility vehicle drove by and a man yelled…

Prince William County officials are expected to ask a judge to rule on whether the county has a legal responsibility to represent county Supervisor Mary K. Hill in a defamation of character lawsuit filed against her by a county police detective. The suit, which stems from comments Hill made last year about the detective in…

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY — The sniper may be getting more bold, if indeed Friday morning’s attack was by the same person who has shot nine others in the metro area in recent weeks. The latest attack took place across the street from a state trooper, said Spotsylvania Sheriffs Department spokesman Maj. Howard Smith. “The trooper was…

Is there anything that is not strange about the process to recall California Gov. Gray Davis. The recall of an elected official is rarely a pretty process but the situation in which Californians are considering replacing Davis is beyond ridicule or parody. The truth is much more laughable. The Golden State’s constitution allows citizens to…

Jamal West, 11, nearly fell out of his chair raising his hand in Hanan Maarouf’s after school class Thursday. The students were brainstorming reasons why after school programs, like the 21st Century Learners program the Sinclair students participate in, are important. Jamal, a fifth-grader at Sinclair Elementary School in Manassas, waved his hand, trying to…