Residents in Northern, western and Southwestern Virginia should be prepared for river flooding and flash flooding as rains continue through Saturday night, state officials said today. Melting snow could contribute to the flooding. Virginians should be aware of their risk for flooding and be prepared to evacuate from quickly rising water if necessary, officials said.

One person was killed and three were injured in a two-vehicle crash on southbound Interstate 295 today, just north of the Interstate 895 interchange in Henrico County.

Residents in northern, western and southwestern Virginia should be prepared for river flooding and flash flooding as rains continue through tomorrow night, state officials said today. Melting snow could contribute to the flooding. Virginians should be aware of their risk for flooding and be prepared to evacuate from quickly rising water if necessary, officials said.

Paul Warner Powell is scheduled to be executed Thursday night at Greensville Correctional Center for the slaying of 16-year-old Stacie Reed in Manassas.

HARRISONBURG—For the past five months, Steve Williams has lived with a secret. Today, he let it be known that he was the Virginia resident who won last fall’s $200 million Mega Millions drawing. Williams took his place among the game’s millionaires when he was presented a check by Virginia Lottery officials during a ceremony at James Madison University in Harrisonburg.

The state Medical Examiner’s Office today confirmed that a woman’s body discovered yesterday on a small island in Swift Creek in Colonial Heights is that of Kelly D. Catalano, who vanished two months ago after leaving her workplace near the Appomattox River. Chesterfield County police this afternoon said they are waiting on final autopsy results for determination of cause of death, but there were no obvious signs of trauma to Catalano’s body.

A Central State Hospital patient under investigation in the strangling death of another patient inside his room was charged late last year in a fierce escape attempt in which one deputy was stabbed and another was shot in the Fauquier County courthouse. George G. Phillips II, 31, who has been identified by state police as a suspect last month’s slaying of Central State Hospital patient Justin L. Davis, was accused in December of stabbing a Fauquier deputy inside a courthouse holding cell, taking control of his gun and then shooting a second deputy who came to his aid.