Columbia Gas has issued an alert to its customers and the public that scammers are offering gas and electric utility customers an “energy credit” to be applied to their utility bills and furnishing false bank routing and account numbers for customers to make a utility payment by computer or phone. Customers have to register for the credit by furnishing personal information and account numbers.

June 18-24 is Virginia Pollinator Week and people of all ages and all across the state are being asked to do something to help save bees, bats, butterflies, birds, moths, beetles, insects and other pollinators - that provide an essential service in making food crops grow. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has put together a list of eight simple things people can do to help the pollinators survive. See below.

Prince William County Police Department's crime report for Monday, June 11, 2012 updates information regarding a Saturday night fatality in Manassas, VA in the vicinity of Dumfries Rd., Brentsville Rd. and Prince William Parkway and reports six home burglaries, with three showing no evidence of forced entry.

All national parks will observe National Get Outdoors Day this Saturday, June 9, with a free entry day to these facilities. The day raises awareness about the importance of physical activity outside and highlights the splendor of national parks. Take a walking tour and talk with a ranger at the battlefield Saturday.

A previously damaged and repaired electrical cord caused a house fire in Woodbridge VA June 4. Smoke was billowing when firefighters arrived. An adult and a pet had safely evacuated the house, according to fire officials.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will detour traffic off Lucasville Road in Manassas VA for about five months beginning June 20 to replace a drainage structure that will ease flooding and improve drainage. Traffic will use VA 234 (Dumfries Road, Godwin Drive and Hastings Drive for the duration of the road work.

Firefighters from Prince William County VA successfully extinguished a house fire in Haymarket and rescued the family's dog who was in the basement when the blaze erupted, late in the evening of Memorial Day Monday.

Residents are urged to take advantage of the Virginia "sales tax holiday" May 25-31 to get stocked up with all the supplies they may need to weather a hurricane. The season for hurricanes coming off the Atlantic starts June.