Stafford News

Stafford Schools, IAFF Local 4012, Stafford County Fire and Rescue, Walmart and Apple Federal Credit Union are going to "Collect for Kids" Aug. 2 at the Village Parkway Walmart in Stafford from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 1. Be respectful.

Doctors say a Stafford, Virginia man will be able to keep his leg after contracting dangerous bacteria while swimming in the Potomac River.

At 11:28 p.m., Stafford County Fire and Rescue units responded to a fire at 215 Sleepy Hollow Trail, a two-story, single family residence of about 3,000-square feet, said Mark Doyle, assistant chief in Stafford.

A Stafford County woman who used her position as a caretaker to rip off defenseless victims was ordered Monday to serve just under five years in prison.

More than 200 acres have been preserved in Stafford County thanks to a program dedicated to conserving the rural and open spaces in the county.

School Superintendent Bruce Benson got his official marching orders from the Stafford County School Board at a work session last week.

I am a product of Stafford County schools. After spending years away, my family and I have moved back to the area.

A man who eluded the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office Thursday morning was captured around 7:50 p.m. and is in custody.

Under the guise of treating chronic pain, a doctor in Stafford, Va., ran a "pill mill" that led to a patient's fatal overdose, according to an indictment in federal court in Alexandria.

A Stafford County jury may decide today if prosecutors proved that William Hughes killed Jason Shane Plaster back in 2007.

A Unionville man was arrested Tuesday evening after being accused of displaying a handgun during a road-rage incident in Fredericksburg, police said.

The principal at Stony Point Elementary School is taking a job in Stafford County.

Work on an expanded commuter parking lot in North Stafford, next to the popular Stafford Marketplace shopping center, is nearly complete.

Plaster, 31, was killed and buried sometime in July 2007 on Benzie's property at 881 Belle Plains Road in southern Stafford.

A Stafford County man was recently conned out of $26,500 by a man who convinced him he had won a $2.5 million sweepstakes, police said.

Police are looking to the public to catch ATM scammers who recently hit four ATMs in Fairfax County.

A Stafford County man was arrested Thursday in connection with an attempted armed robbery last week at a home in the northern part of the county, police said.

Ladona Gorham has been selected as the new supervisor of gifted/talented/advanced studies and fine arts for Fauquier County Public Schools, effective August 1. She has been the division coordinator for gifted education in Culpeper County Public Schools for the past eight years.

At about 6 p.m. Sunday, Stafford County Sheriff's officers responded to the report of a suspicious package on the corner of Mine Road and High Point Boulevard.

Friends, family, and supporters of the Rivera family are expected to gather to remember their son, Rico, who drown in an Aquia Harbour swimming pool.