Stafford News

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.

A new proposal that would patch the regional landfill's financial holes but end the litter program in Stafford County raised the eyebrows of some supervisors, who questioned whether there were other options.

A proposed development near the Stafford Regional Airport will go before the Stafford Board of Supervisors without the blessing of the county's Planning Commission.

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Stafford County detectives are cracking down on those who would seek to provide or receive sexual services for money in the county.

We want to express our thanks to the Strength & Honor Motorcycle Club, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marine Corps, but most of all to the men, women and children of the Stafford community at large for turning out in a big way to welcome our son-in-law, Marine Staff Sgt.

A recommendation to increase most of the suggested cash proffers in Stafford County will soon be in front of the public.

Avis Thomas-Lester , president-elect of the Lake Arbor Foundation, and Robert Quarles, a visiting musician from Stafford, Va., dance to live jazz during the Lake Arbor Community Day on Saturday.

On Monday, June 23, 2014, at approximately 3:30 pm, multiple deputies responded to an address in North Stafford for a report of a scam.

To pull the regional landfill out of a financial hole, possible solutions range from charging Fredericksburg and Stafford residents to dump trash, to having the county pitch in funding.

Kristine Stewart and her two children watched as six Marines pulled her husband's flag-draped casket from a hearse.

A Prince William County man was ordered Thursday to serve 40 years in prison for a home-invasion robbery in Stafford County last year in which two men were shot.

The body of Marine Staff Sgt. David H. Stewart will be accompanied from Dover Air Force Base to Stafford by the Stafford County Sheriff's Office and a procession of motorcyclists made up of current and former police, fire and rescue workers, and military service members today.

Mike Null, Chief Animal Control Officer, shows off the emergency animal shelter trailer, capable of housing 45 animals at the Stafford Emergency Drill at the Rodney E. Thompson Middle School, which acted as the shelter center in Stafford on Thursday, June 26, 2014.

Hillsborough Middle School student Diana Voronin took second place in the National Academy of Engineering's annual EngineerGirl essay competition.