Convention delegate Keith Scarborough is blogging this week from the Democratic National Convention on InsideNoVA.com. 

The second installment of the new Buckland Bridge on southbound U.S. 29 is on schedule for this weekend, but the Virginia Department of Transportation has made a couple of changes to minimize any pain felt by motorists, a spokesman for the department said.

A Woodbridge man who operated a tax services company was convicted this week at U.S. District Court in Alexandria of tax fraud.

A former Bull Run Middle School teacher was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.

Inspired by the sacrifice of military friends and family members whose lives were lost in Iraq, a team of runners—including a former Manassas resident—is finishing a cross-country run this weekend to honor every service member killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Kaine spread the word that he had learned his political fate in a telephone call from Obama.

Sen. Barack Obama is rumored to announce his running mate today.

This week’s winners and losers.

A 30-year-old Woodbridge man told police two teenage males between 17 and 19 attacked and robbed him after asking for a cigarette in the 4200 block of Evergreen Drive in Dale City around 10:50 p.m. Monday.

Bristow resident Sylvester Small knew something was fishy when daughter Tiffany Patterson received a letter saying she'd won $675,000 from Publishers Clearing House and a check for more than $5,190. And he was right.

Prince William police have arrested the driver of a BMW involved in a late July collision that left a 13-year-old Dale City boy dead.

Prince William police on Tuesday released a composite sketch of the man who sexually assaulted a woman at Manassas National Battlefield this week.

Get ready for crowded roads and school zones again because come Sept. 2, roughly 800 Prince William buses will be added to the mix of morning rush-hour traffic.

A Manassas food bank received a big boost this week when 14,400 pounds of much-needed food items were dropped off at its pantry.

A former Prince William County probation officer pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that she embezzled more than $1,600.

On a beautiful August afternoon, a standing-room-only crowd came out in Haymarket for the Samuel L. Gravely Jr. Elementary School ribbon-cutting

Michael Phelps inspires a generation of swimmers. 

Prince William police reported the following incidents.

A preliminary hearing for a man charged in connection with a 2007 homicide in Triangle has been continued to October.

The town of Herndon has had enough with people driving without operators' licenses and wants the General Assembly to do something about it. Manassas Park may well do likewise.

A 27-year-old Culpeper man has been arrested on felony charges related to a sexual assault of an acquaintance on Monday.

It's a rock and a hard place that both sides of a burgeoning lawsuit say they face.

An inmate who removed his handcuffs and escaped corrections staff members while being transferred early Wednesday was captured 2 1/2 hours later.

An inmate being held at the Prince William-Manassas regional jail escaped custody this morning, but was taken back into custody around 8:30 a.m

A 56-year-old Manassas man was flown to an area hospital with non life-threatening injuries following a hit and run collision near Montclair early Tuesday morning.

A grand jury in Prince William Circuit Court handed up the following indictments Aug. 4.

Community briefs

Prince William police are investigating a reported sexual assault that occurred at Manassas National Battlefield Park on Tuesday.

For the eighth year running, corporate sponsors have joined forces with a church-based foundation to hand out nearly 1,100 free backpacks containing school supplies to the neediest of Prince William County.

Prince William police and tactical units swarmed to a small neighborhood in Woodbridge early Tuesday afternoon and surrounded a town house during a standoff following hold-up at an area gas station.