03/31/16 / Federal Government / Health & Safety / Police & Fire Beat /
ICE is looking for Roberto Craciunica, 34, a Romanian man believed to be residing in Germany. ICE says Craciunica was indicted in October 2015 in the Eastern District of Virginia for a variety of charges related to manufacturing and distributing counterfeit badges and that Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Craciunica’s arrest.
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03/17/16 / Breaking News / Federal Government / Military / Money & Taxes /
Congressmen seek to halt taxes from being improperly being withheld on combat-injured veterans' severance pay and to make back payments to those whose veterans' severance pay was taxed.
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03/13/16 / Education / Federal Government / Haymarket /
In collaboration with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Mountain View Elementary students will present inventions on Tuesday, March 15 in the school gym at 6:30 p.m. Invention challenges suggested by mentors from the Patent Office include wearable functional clothing, snow removal, pet hygiene, and kids’ refrigerator.
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03/12/16 / Agriculture / Federal Government / Money & Taxes / State Government /
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) will accept applications from groups until April 14, 2016 for United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crop Block Grant funding up to $60,000 per project
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03/07/16 / Federal Government / Health & Safety /
With the number of air travelers growing significantly each year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it is prepared to effectively screen the more than 65.1 million travelers expected to travel over the Spring Break travel season. TSA normally screens nearly 2 million passengers daily. With passenger volumes up more than 7 percent over the same time period in 2015, TSA expects passenger volumes to drastically increase throughout in March as spring breakers take to the skies and throughout the summer.
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By CARLENE MACKERETH, NOVA-Manassas 03/02/16 / Education / Federal Government / People & Places / Warrenton /
Longtime Northern Virginia Community College professor William Woodard has returned to the area after spending the fall 2015 semester teaching English in the applied linguistics master’s degree program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago through a grant from the Fulbright program, the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government.
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03/01/16 / Federal Government / Health & Safety /
Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (R-VA) joined as an original cosponsor to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-TX) bipartisan Digital Security Commission Act, according to a news release from her office on Feb. 29.
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FROM National Park Service 02/26/16 / Breaking News / Federal Government / Woodbridge / Creative Arts / Parks & Recreation /
George Liffert of Woodbridge a national park manager with 28 years’ experience and a former manager at Prince William Forest Park, has been tapped to lead Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, where he has been acting superintendent since June 2015. He will assume his role as superintendent immediately.
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