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Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul B. Ebert will break new ground in his lengthy career as a prosecutor today, when jury selection for the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad enters a fourth day. In a pretrial hearing in Manassas, Ebert told the court that he had never had a trial where jury selection take longer…

Harold W. Brookshire Harold Wesley Brookshire, 68, of Fairfax, died Friday Nov. 9, 2001, at Winchester Medical Center, Winchester. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Methodist Church, Annandale. He had been a building contractor in Northern Virginia since 1976. He was preceded in death by his son, Douglas Brookshire, in 1995. He is survived…

It’s that time of year again. The Texas Transportation Institute released its statistics on America’s most congested metropolitan areas and the Washington, D.C., area retained its third place ranking. At least that is one way of looking at the statistics released on Wednesday. Others view the numbers and report that our area has the ninth…

Manassas police arrest man suspected of robbing woman in home at gunpoint MANASSAS — City police arrested a 20-year-old Manassas man who they believe broke into a Massie Street home with a gun and demanded money from its owner before fleeing, Sgt. Marc J. Woolverton, police department spokesman, said in a press release Friday. Police…

WASHINGTON — Eight months after Sept. 11, top House leaders are struggling to devise a plan to repopulate the House if a catastrophic terrorist attack kills its members. Meeting for the first time Thursday, a bipartisan special committee contemplated what would happen if only a few House members survived an attack and were faced with…

Fredy Vasquez, 18, is a senior at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria and has a 3.6 grade-point average. After he graduates this June, by law, he’ll have to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college in Virginia because he came over from El Salvador with his parents five years ago and is not a…