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WOODBRIDGE — The Potomac Cannons decided they’d take their chances pitching to Brad Hawpe this weekend. They got away with it on Saturday, but last night the Carolina League’s best hitter made them pay for their bravado. Hawpe, who appears to be completely recovered from the tendinitis in his right wrist that forced him to…
ARLINGTON-Closures and realignments of military bases will save only $14 billion – far less than the $48 billion predicted by Pentagon officials, the head of the base-closing commission said as the panel finished three days of deliberations. Acknowledging it will take days to get a final estimate, Base Realignment and Closure Commission Chairman Anthony Principi said…
Prince William Police reported the following incidents: — Two houses under construction at the end of Gunston Hall Road, near Forest Park high School, were burglarized between Oct. 16 and 8 a.m. Tuesday. There was no sign of forced entry to one of the homes where a refrigerator, worth $833, was stolen. At the second…
Though Manassas club owner Reginald E. “Reggie” Wood Jr. lost the lease on the old Manassas Presbyterian Church building he was using for his Northern Virginia Professionals Club this spring, eviction may be the least of Wood’s worries. Among the 200 criminal indictments handed up by the Grand Jury in July was a bad check…
County ranger charged with hit and run on trailer A 47-year-old Prince William County Park Authority ranger from Woodbridge was charged with hit and run and filing a false police report for telling officers his car was hit in the parking lot of the Prince William Police Department’s Gar-Field Substation, said Detective Dennis Mangan. Ronald…
The House of Delegates Transportation Committee on Tuesday approved HB 1564, submitted by David B. Albo, R-Fairfax. The bill would increase penalties for motorists found guilty of serious traffic infractions. In addition to existing fines, the courts would impose $100 for speeding at least 15 but not more than 19 miles per hour above the…