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• Latinos Unite Across Classes Against Curbs on Immigration

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Latinos, Unite, Across, Classes, Against, Curbs, Immigration, Prince William County, Maryland, Jesus Calva, Manassas, Ricardo Juarez, Virginia, Gilbert Mejia, Northern Virginia, Ruben Andrade, United States, North Carolina, Annandale, Carlos Alvarado, Central America, Dona

  Jos Marinay wears tailored suits, plays racquetball twice a week and displays photos of family-owned racehorses in his Annandale office. For years, the Colombian-born businessman thought he had little in common with the area's illegal immigrants, often villagers from Mexico and Central America w...

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• Hispanics Protest, but Impact Questioned

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hispanics, Protest, But, Impact, Questioned, Woodbridge Virginia, Mariana Vasquez, Ricardo Juarez, Stanley Castillo, Prince William County, Azteca Latina, Bill Fairchild, Carlos Castro, Corey Stewart, Eugene Suarez Jr, Manassas, Manassas Park, R W Murray, Ruben Garcia, Alex

  A work boycott called to protest Prince William County's proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants appeared to have limited impact yesterday as construction sites, restaurants and retail stores hummed with business as usual.

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• Prince William Crackdown Worries Some Merchants

  Published: October 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Prince, William, Crackdown, Worries, Some, Merchants, Manassas, Woodbridge Virginia, Prince William County, Italo Olazabal, Falls Church, Richard Hendershot, North Carolina, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Carlos Castro, Corey Stewart, James Kim, Jose Merino, Potomac Mills

  Some Prince William businesses fear that the county's recent move to cut public services to illegal immigrants could hurt their operations should the Hispanic community, one of the fastest-growing in the region, decide it is no longer welcome.

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• Williams Reports Loss; Future Unclear

  Published: October 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Williams, Reports, Loss, Future, Unclear, Frank E Williams Jr, Manassas, Williams Industries Inc, U S Securities Exchange Commission, Virginia, Marianne V Pastor, Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge

  Williams Industries, the Manassas construction firm and manufacturer of steel girders, reported a net loss yesterday of $2.3 million (63 cents per share) for fiscal 2007 compared with a profit of $93,000 (3 cents) the previous year and said it was uncertain whether it can remain viable as it stru...

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• I Already Miss the Kline Burgers

  Published: November 18, 2007, 10:24 pm

  Tags: Community, Family, Food, Manassas

  family as members of the Manassas Church of the Brethren. When I was a kid my family went out to Yorkshire to get ice cream at the original Kline’s Freeze. That place, like Carl’s down in Fredericksburg, had no indoor eating area. So they built another store south of manassas in 1969. No one thought the business would last. You

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• Local Home Foreclosures on the Rise

  Published: December 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Local, Home, Foreclosures, The, Rise, Caprise Coppedge, Leonid Frolov, Marian Siegel, Oscar Reyes, Washington Dc, Prince George S County, John Mcclain, Prince William County, Washington Mutual Inc, George Mason, Manassas, Margie Leon, Northern Virginia, Fairfax County

  Caprise Coppedge, a housing counselor in Prince George's County, used to work with maybe one person a week who was struggling to make a mortgage payment.

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• Wicker's Earmark Elicits Criticism

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wicker S, Earmark, Elicits, Criticism, John Keast, Mississippi, Citizens For Responsibility And Ethics In Washington, Woodside, Dan Fleming, Jim Demint, John Cummings, John Pruett, John S Langford, Kyle Steward, Lucy Shackelford, Manassas, Melanie Sloan, Roger Wicker, Star

  Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican congressman appointed to replace Trent Lott in December, last year obtained a $6 million earmark for a defense contractor whose executives were among his top campaign contributors and were represented in the matter by Wicker's former congressional chi...

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• Wicker's Earmark Elicits Criticism

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wicker S, Earmark, Elicits, Criticism, John Keast, Mississippi, Citizens For Responsibility And Ethics In Washington, Woodside, Dan Fleming, Jim Demint, John Cummings, John Pruett, John S Langford, Kyle Steward, Lucy Shackelford, Manassas, Melanie Sloan, Roger Wicker, Star

  Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican congressman appointed to replace Trent Lott in December, last year obtained a $6 million earmark for a defense contractor whose executives were among his top campaign contributors and were represented in the matter by Wicker's former congressional chi...

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• Wicker's Earmark Elicits Criticism

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wicker S, Earmark, Elicits, Criticism, John Keast, Mississippi, Citizens For Responsibility And Ethics In Washington, Woodside, Dan Fleming, Jim Demint, John Cummings, John Pruett, John S Langford, Kyle Steward, Lucy Shackelford, Manassas, Melanie Sloan, Roger Wicker, Star

  Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican congressman appointed to replace Trent Lott in December, last year obtained a $6 million earmark for a defense contractor whose executives were among his top campaign contributors and were represented in the matter by Wicker's former congressional chi...

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• Region's Builders Rein In Visions

  Published: January 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Region S, Builders, Rein, Visions, Manassas Park, Loudoun County, Prince George S County, Major League Baseball, National League Baseball, Nl East Division, Pn Hoffman Inc, Washington Nationals, Douglas Jemal, Robert Peck, California, Florida, Nevada, Virginia, Buchanan

  The real estate boom had long since burned a gilded path through Bethesda, Tysons Corner and Arlington. Now it was Springfield's turn, and up stepped a developer with a vision of creating a cosmopolitan oasis out of a disheveled 10-acre patch beneath a highway interchange.

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• As Crunchtime Arrives, All-Out Appeal in Region

  Published: February 11, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Crunchtime, Arrives, All Out, Appeal, Region, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Maryland, Hillary Clinton, Edward M Kennedy, John Mccain, Rachel Querry, Virginia, Prince George S County, Bethesda, College Park, Ethel Sligh, Manassas, Martin O Malley, Mike Hu

  Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, their family members and surrogates swept through the Washington region yesterday, appearing in packed churches, schools and retirement communities in a blitz of activity two days before the high-stakes "Potomac Primary" in...

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• Foreclosure Auctioneer's Lonely Task

  Published: February 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Foreclosure, Auctioneer S, Lonely, Task, Rick Crossley, Prince William County, Northern Virginia, Aurora Loan Services Llc, Manassas, Woodbridge Virginia, Arizona, Virginia, Lehman Brothers Inc, Realtytrac Inc, Arlington, Bill Evans, Fairfax, Leesburg, Lou Coletta, Manassas

  With an unhurried stride and a fresh stack of mortgage loans gone bad, Rick Crossley arrived at the small plaza outside the Prince William County courthouse on a bright, windy morning recently and found it deserted. He cleared his throat, opened a thick folder and, with little ceremony, began to...

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• As Foreclosed Homes Empty, Crime Arrives

  Published: April 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Foreclosed, Homes, Empty, Crime, Arrives, Doug Thompson, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Manassas, Phil Lee, Maryland, Prince George S County, Prince William County, California, Ashburn Virginia, Atlanta, Fairfax, Hillsborough County, Kettering, Manassas Park, Modesto, Mon

  The growing foreclosure crisis has forced suburban law enforcement agencies to tackle a new challenge: policing empty houses.

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• An Outbreak of Caring

  Published: April 30, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Outbreak, Caring, Tom Maguire, Verizon Communications Inc, Verizon Fios, Luchanda Briggs, At Amp T Inc, Comcast Corporation, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Leslie Rogers, Virginia, New Jersey, Bowie Maryland, Bangalore, Ivan Seidenberg, Manassas, Philip Doriot, Seattle

  Tom Maguire, Verizon Communications' new Customer Care Czar, is one tough customer. When served chicken tacos without the chicken recently, he first complained to his waitress, then went online to the restaurant's Web site to fill out a survey with scathing remarks about his experience.

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• Economic Troubles Multiply Requests for Help in D.C. Area

  Published: May 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Economic, Troubles, Multiply, Requests, For, Help, D C, Area, Arlene Garner, Montgomery, Arlington, Fairfax County, Jackie Thorns, Manassas, Prince George S County, Washington Dc, Arlington County, Fairfax, Howard Feldstein, Loudoun County, Montgomery County Maryland, Prin

  The sagging economy and spike in food and energy prices are driving sharp increases in requests for government assistance in the Washington region, officials said.

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