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Emmanuel 2001-02 record: 9-13, 6-8 (in DAC) How season ended: Lost to Seton 56-20 in Delaney Athletic Conference quarterfinals Coach: Taylor Jackson (Second year, 5-11 career record). Key loss: G Brittany Edgar Player to watch: Megan Gibson, a 5-4 sophomore point guard who averaged 10.5 points, 3.0 steals and 2.5 assists per game last year….

Prince William County police reported the following incidents: • A big screen television, stereo, digital camera, PlayStation, bottles of wine and liquor and tennis shoes valued at a combined $5,000 were stolen from a home in the 11600 block of Rumford Court in Lake Ridge on Thursday between 6:35 a.m. and 12:32 p.m. • A…

Tax cut. Those two simple words get politicians elected and reelected. Those two words will undoubtedly be tossed around this campaign season as races heat up for eight seats on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. County supervisors have consistently shaved pennies off the local real estate tax rate the past four years. This…

Though it forced school closings in Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park, Wednesday’s ice storm had little effect on area roads and public utilities. Area police reported several minor accidents and Dominion Virginia Power said very few of its customers were without electricity during and after the storm. Prince William police spokesman Detective Dennis…

MANASSAS — The residents of Manassas have helped make their city a safer place. Through the city police department’s Crime Solvers program, tips from anonymous residents led to 18 criminal arrests in 2001, the most in one year since the program began in 1987, said Sgt. Marc J. Woolverton, a Manassas police spokesman. The citizen-informant…

When a hijacked aircraft crashed near his office in the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a 1980 Gar-Field High School graduate and U.S. Marine, Lt. Col. James Giles Kyser IV, helped direct his co-workers to safety before heading directly to the crash site. Amid thickening smoke, he assisted people while calling for others…