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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…

Manassas tenant charged in theft of landlord’s SUV Manassas police arrested a 19-year-old Manassas man Tuesday for the theft his landlord’s vehicle, said Sgt. Bill Goodman, Manassas police spokesman. The 43-year-old landlord told police he awoke Tuesday and discovered that his 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser and its keys were missing, along with the 19-year-old who…

Riverboat gambling off the shores of Prince William in the Potomac River is feared by Virginia lawmakers and today they will vote on a resolution that tells Maryland not to do it. House Resolution 74 introduced by Prince William Delegate Robert G. Marshall, R-13th District, with 30 co-sponsors urges Maryland “to refrain from authorizing its…

No expert psychiatric witnesses will be allowed to testify at sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad’s trial, a Prince William Circuit Court judge decreed Thursday afternoon. Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. ruled that Muhammad had failed to cooperate with a forensic psychiatrist hired by prosecutors Thursday morning, and his experts’ testimony would be forfeited. As he…

For a small community, Manassas Park likes to think big. With a land area of only 2 square miles, the city, located just north of Manassas, is the second smallest in Virginia. And yet skyrocketing real estate values have provided the city government with the funds needed to take responsibility for large projects. In the…

The Manassas City Council gave the final go-ahead Monday night to a plan that calls for $350,000 worth of improvements to the intersection of Sudley Road and Plantation Lane. The project may not be a flawless solution to the traffic woes that have plagued the crossroads, council members said, but it is still a much-needed…