Updated, 4:40 p.m.: On a wet Tuesday morning, I-95 in Prince William County proved treacherous, claiming the lives of two people and injuring several others, including one driver Virginia State Police say was driving too fast for the conditions and has been charged. The first wreck occurred about 4:30 a.m. at mile marker 154. A Ford E350 Econoline van, holding nine male passengers and owned by Selective Demolition and Hauling in Gaithersburg, was in the southbound lane when the driver lost control of the van, according to Virginia State Police. The van ran off the highway, hit a guardrail and flipped over at least two times, police say, coming to rest on its side. Job J. Diaz-Lemus, 29, of Gaithersburg has been charged with reckless ... Continue reading →

CLAIRTON, Pa. — Early on the morning of Sept. 3, 2009, Nicholas Adrian Revetta left the Pittsburgh suburb of Pleasant Hills and drove 15 minutes to a job at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant, a soot-blackened industrial complex on the Monongahela River. He never returned home.Stocky and stoic, Revetta was working that Thursday as a laborer for a U.S. Steel contractor at the same plant that employed his brother, for the same company that had employed his late father. Shortly before 11:30 a.m., gas leaking from a line in the plant’s Chemicals and Energy Division found an ignition source and exploded, propelling Revetta backward into a steel column and inflicting a fatal blow to his head. Thirty-two years old, he left behind a wife and two ... Continue reading →

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Jeremy BordenIn e NC at James Kuleshers wedding. Classy times on the farm. Continue reading →

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A member of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors has introduced a measure to eliminate supervisors’ so-called “discretionary funds,” which have long been criticized in some circles for allowing individual supervisors to dole out taxpayer dollars without proper scrutiny. Prince William Supervisor Peter Candland. (Dayna Smith - For The Washington Post) Funds are allocated to each district to run their office and pay staff — an average of $335,000 for each district office. The bulk of those funds are used to run supervisors’ district offices, but funds that are not specifically allocated can be used for supervisors to donate to non-profits, charities or for school-related uses. Supervisor Peter K. Candland (R-Gainesville) said he believes the intentions of his fellow supervisors are “on the level,” ... Continue reading →

Jeremy BordenThis is what happens when you're a guest of Bill Delano in TX. Classy dude. Continue reading →

For conservationists and fiscal conservatives, Prince William County’s protection of its rural area against development prevents sprawl and preserves rural beauty. For rural landowners and developers, the policy is seen as an arbitrary land grab by an antiquated and draconian county policy. While a $60,000 Prince William County study commissioned by a unanimous vote of the Board of County Supervisors Tuesday won’t solve that debate, it will give residents and county officials a sense of whether the county’s rural-area policies are working as intended and identify additional tools the county can use to preserve rural land. A need for a study most recently came up when Supervisor Martin E. “Marty” Nohe (R-Coles) halted a development proposal for 102 homes in the middle part of the ... Continue reading →