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Woman Dies, Dog Runs Away In Crash

Submitted by WUSA9 Web Staff
Monday, July 11th, 2011, 10:46am

HAYMARKET, Va. (WUSA) -- A woman is dead after a head-on collision with an RV Sunday, police said.

It happened at around 5:00 p.m., when Charlotte Brown Perry, 72, of Midland, was trying to pass a car in a no-pass zone in the 3100 Block of James Madison Highway, according to police.

Perry ended up crashing into an Winnebago, head-on, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her passenger, a 79-year-old man, was flown to a hospital with unknown injuries.

The couple had a Great Pyrenees dog in a cage in the back seat, police said. The dog's cage opened as a result of the crash, and the dog ran away, police said. 

Police released a picture of a similar dog, in hopes of finding the dog that ran away in the crash.

If you have any information about the missing dog, contact Prince William County Police.

No one in the RV was injured in the crash.

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Tranquility Day Spa Raffles $1300 Gift Card Package to Help Build Home for Zambian Orphans

Submitted by Asha Sedalia Bruot, ASHA Public Relations, LLC
Monday, July 11th, 2011, 9:14am

 

Tranquility Day Spa and Salon of Haymarket, Va. is raffling off a $1300 gift card package to help raise funds to build a house for eight Zambian orphans. Tickets are being sold from now through July 30, 2011 and are $20 per ticket. The prize is a $1000 gift card to Tranquility Day Spa and Salon and a $300 gift card to Girasole or Panino, located in The Plains, Va., and Manassas, Va., respectively.  The raffle winner will be announced on Sat., July 30, when the spa will celebrate the building of the new orphanage and provide food, entertainment and prizes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 571-248-4150 or visit www.tranquilitydayspa.com.

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Report Ranks D.C., Maryland, Virginia On Adult Obesity Rates

Submitted by Simon Landau, Community Web Producer
Sunday, July 10th, 2011, 2:15pm
Report Ranks D.C., Maryland, Virginia On Adult Obesity Rates

Washington, D.C. has the 2nd lowest rate of obese adults in the United States, trailing only Colorado, according to a report from Trust for America’s Heather and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The report, entitled F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, investigates weight issues by state, as well as in the District. 

According to the report, 12 states have obesity rates of more than 30 percent.  D.C.’s rate of obese adults, however, is a reported 21%.

Maryland ‘s adult obesity rate is 27.1 percent according to the study, while Virginia’s is 25.9 percent, which ranks them as the 26th and 30th most obese states in the country respectively.

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Motorcyclist Recovering After 22 Hours In Woods

Submitted by WUSA9 Web Staff
Friday, July 8th, 2011, 11:13pm

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.  (WUSA) - "I kicked my feet and waved my arms," said Justin Hipple.  He couldn't move after breaking his back, three vertebrae and most of his ribs when he crashed his brother's motorcycle on July 1 around 12 a.m.  

He had landed in some woods just 50 feet from a busy intersection.  But no one saw him.  And the next day, even though he could see tops of cars, no one saw him.

"We knew something was wrong," Tony Hipple talked about the day he realized something bad had happened to his brother Justin, 29, who had borrowed his motorcycle.

When he didn't come home Thursday night and didn't make it to work Friday, he and his sister hit the phones calling every hospital within a 100-mile radius.

He worried his brother had wrecked his motorcycle and was in a ditch somewhere.

That somewhere was within 50 feet of the busy intersection of Dumfries and Bristow Roads.

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New Parent Portal Being Launched for 2011-12 School Year

Submitted by Ellen Scott, Community Web Producer
Friday, July 8th, 2011, 4:31pm

From Prince William County Public Schools:

 

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Two PWCS Students Named Regional All-Americans in Lacrosse

Submitted by Ellen Scott, Community Web Producer
Thursday, July 7th, 2011, 11:32am
Two PWCS Students Named Regional All-Americans in Lacrosse

From Prince William County Public Schools:

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Mother Charged In Boy's Minivan Death Turns Herself In

Submitted by WUSA9 Web Staff
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011, 7:20pm

BRISTOW, Va. (WUSA) -- Karen Murphy made her first court appearance Wednesday on a felony murder and child neglect charges in the death of her 2-year-old son Ryan Murphy.

Ryan died on June 17 after being left in the family's minivan for seven hours.   The veterinarian apparently forgot to drop him off at daycare before going to her animal hospital.

At the end of the day, Karen Murphy got in the car and drove home, apparently unaware Ryan was still in the back seat, until her husband called and wondered why he wasn't at daycare where he was supposed to pick him up.

"There's no explanation.  It's sad.  It's one of those cases that didn't have to happen, but it did," said Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert.  

In court, Murphy, 40, looked sullen and grief-stricken as she sat  with her husband and attorney waiting for her name to be called. 

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