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Monday’s Amtrak derailment continues to slow Virginia Railway Express commuters’ daily trips. The track where the accident occurred in Kensington, Md., is owned by CSX Transportation, and as a precaution, the railroad imposed a 35 mph limit for passenger trains on its lines — tracks used by VRE’s Fredericksburg and Manassas commuter trains. CSX raised…

Last month, as a Christmas party geared up inside a Roanoke hotel ballroom, longtime surgeon Bradley W. Nicholson munched pizza in the lobby and wondered whether his life’s work was facing imminent collapse. For more than eight hours, he had sat before a humorless three-member panel of the state Board of Medicine and listened to…

Prince William County police reported the following incidents: • A camcorder, a digital camera, PlayStation games, a Game Boy, a book bag and a computer worth a total of $975 were stolen from an apartment in the 2800 block of Woodmark Drive in Woodbridge between 6:15 a.m. and noon Wednesday. Entry was gained through an…

A drug bust went awry Friday in the Old Navy clothing store parking lot at the Parkridge Shopping Center at Va. 234 and Interstate 66 north of Manassas at about 11:45 a.m. Friday, said Sgt. Dennis Mangan, Prince William police spokesman. Detectives from the Prince William-Manassas-Manassas Park Narcotics Task Force shot a man after he…

Ground was officially broken on the soon-to-be-built Marine Corps Heritage Center on Friday, marking a key phase on a project that has been 228 years in the making. The center is exactly what the name implies and it will bring focus to the history of the Marine Corps from an awe-inspiring, 135-acre complex in southeastern…

The Interstate 66/U.S. 29 Sector Plan means many different things to different people: a sad ending, a bright vision for the future, a conspiracy by developers and a recipe for traffic gridlock and rampant retail. Whatever it means to the players involved in its creation, come Aug. 6 — after two-and-a-half years of work —…