Stafford News

A man called 911 just before 3 p.m. Thursday and told authorities he had seen a small girl try to approach him while he was working in the garage at his home in the area of Garrison Woods Drive and Onville Road.

A Stafford County man was charged with a felony Thursday after his 2-year-old daughter was found sitting alone at the edge of a creek wearing no shoes, police said.

A broken heart and other pressures pushed Arthur Gonzales to the breaking point last year when he snapped and killed his wife of 17 years at the Stafford County home they'd shared since 2010, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

A Stafford County man was arrested Tuesday after police said he crashed a car into another vehicle before running from the scene.

Boy Scout Troop 835 Status: Canceled Notes: Board Of Reviews will be conducted next week.

Customers who mainly use the Celebrate Virginia location will be directed to the branch at 1980 Carl D. Silver Parkway in Fredericksburg's Central Park development.

Jury selection for a five-day trial of an FBI agent charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife at his Stafford County home is scheduled to begin Tuesday, weather permitting.

Always Sonshine Learn & Play Status: Closed Notes: Due to extreme weather conditions that are supposed to last throughout the day, we are closing for the day City of Fredericksburg Circuit Court Status: Closed Notes: Fredericksburg circuit court and the clerk of court are closed today.

Stafford Commonwealth's Attorney Eric Olsen notified Coker's legal team over the weekend that he won't seek to retry Coker in a 2007 case in which the girl who accused him of rape recanted.

Twenty-five pairs of feet stomped in time to "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as a 23rd Regiment, United States Colored Troops re-enactor marched down the aisle to the front of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Dr. Lewis Brown, head of the Brown Foundation, has provide the Stafford Parks and Recreation Department with memorabilia to display in honor of Black History Month.

A man who police say jumped up on a woman's hood and smashed her windshield during a traffic dispute last year got a suspended six-month jail sentence Thursday in Stafford County.

Retha W. Gambaro, sculptor, was born Dec. 9, 1917, in Indian Territory, Okla., to William Benson Walden and Zella Athleen Walden.

A driver of a mail truck has been charged with making an improper turn in connection with the crash that shut down Route 3 earlier today.

A judge Wednesday upheld the 93-year prison term a jury recommended in October for the getaway driver in a robbery in Stafford last year during which two people were shot.

Faith Baptist School & Extended Care Status: Late opening Start time: Two hour delay Notes: Will reassess at 8:30 AM Fredericksburg Christian Schools Status: Late opening Notes: School is opening two hours late, this will be reassessed at 7:00am.

Nearly 100 Wildcats might find themselves in Bear territory next fall in an effort to prevent overcrowding in a Stafford County elementary school.

A Cadillac that jumped the curb, drove through the front lawn of town homes, knocked down a road sign, and narrowly missed a parked car was the focus of a police investigation late Tuesday night.

A development group wants approval to build as many as 2,900 homes and 1.8 million square feet of commercial space off Stafford's Courthouse Road in what would be the county's largest mixed-use development.

Police arrested Holly Fowler, 26, of Urbana on Saturday night on felony charges of failure to stop after an accident and tampering with evidence.