Yorkshire News

Byrd Tractor, Inc. owner Wayne Byrd, center left, looks in a side door of his shop on May 21 after a two-alarm fire ripped through the building on May 18.

Following a fire in the Yorkshire area that caused minor injuries to two people, traffic was backed up for hours after police had to temporarily close down Centreville Road.A Captain Tom Pearson of the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue, said that the fire occurred at Byrd Tractor, which shares a building with A-1 Glass.

Hoping to collect hundreds of shoes for children at Yorkshire and West Gate elementary schools, the Advanced Placement Government classes of Osbourn Park High School will be sponsoring their fourth annual "Kicks for Kids" shoe drive May 21-30; this year's goal is to collect 652 pairs of shoes.

Police saw Leann Renae Harris and Natasha Renee Cook fighting at the intersection of Byrd Drive and Aspen Place at 2:20 p.m., Manassas police Sgt.