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It is a Thursday evening, the sun is glowing warmly in the sky, proud parents sit on the grass and young athletes chase soccer balls around the field. The scene is nothing out of the ordinary in Prince William County’s suburbia, but for the 15 players on the Manassas Area Soccer Association’s TOPSoccer league, their…

Hi-Mart, at Station Plaza in Woodbridge, is going live on eBay today. A year’s lease on retail space will hit the auction block at 3 p.m., said Joon Park, vice president of operations at the international market at Gordon Boulevard and U.S. 1. Though not as glamourous as a grilled-cheese sandwich said to bear the…

If convicted, sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad may face a list of crimes besides the shooting he is charged with in Prince William at his sentencing hearing. That list includes murders in Tacoma, Wash., Atlanta, Ga., Wheaton, Md. and Rockville, Md., shootings in Silver Spring, Md., and Baton Rouge, La., a mugging in Arizona, shots…

Velma G. Martin Velma Gertrude Martin, 91, of Manassas, died Friday, Feb. 8, 2002, at Annaburg Manor, Manassas. She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Lawton, Okla. She was preceded in death by her husband, John V. Martin. Survivors include two children, Vee Deanya Goodgion of Manassas and Don E. Martin of Mesquite,…

A few weeks ago, on Labor Day, I turned to C-SPAN, knowing that the occasion would provoke discussion of organized labor, relevant to my specialized legal practice. Among the guests that day was Jonathan Tasini, executive director of a new front group for union bosses, called “American Rights at Work.” From a professional perspective (I…

Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of profiles of local people and what being an American means to them. Tell us what it means to you to be an American by joining our forum at www.potomacnews.com. Ramzan Haq came to America from Pakistan in 1973 and became a naturalized citizen in 1979….