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Prince William County Police Department’s crime report for Oct. 6, 2011.

Local registrars and Va. Department of Motor Vehicles offices will register Virginia residents to vote until Oct. 17.

About 150 students a year enroll in a local institute for classroom study and practical work to learn how to make airplane travel as pleasurable and worry free as possible. They are not aspiring pilots, and they will not be offering drinks, snacks, pillows and blankets in flight. They are, instead, trainees enrolled in the Aviation Institute of Maintenance Manassas (a Washington, D.C. school), which opened in a shared hangar at the Manassas Municipal Airport in 2001 to train mechanics in the aviation field. It later moved to a Godwin Drive location.

State and local officials are trying to get in the driver’s seat when it comes to making their fleets green.

Prince William County Police Department’s crime report for Oct. 4, 2011.

Driving a fire truck requires patience, care and special training for Prince William County volunteers. Here, Allen LaGrave, a technician with the Antioch Fire & Rescue Station, is shown in a truck. This man drives his vehicle with care.

Manassas VA City Police Department's crime report for Oct. 3, 2011

Prince William County Police Department’s crime report for Oct. 3, 2011.