Stafford News

A man who spent hundreds of hours carrying on a sexually explicit relationship with a Stafford County teenager was ordered Wednesday to serve 14 years in prison.

A Portsmouth judge's ruling over proposed tolls for tunnel crossings in Hampton Roads, could have far reaching implications for a 1995 law that allows public and private partnerships to help pay for the construction of new roads.

Beginning with the 201415 school year, all eight of Stafford County's middle schools will likely have school resource officers.

A Dumfries man faces several charges after he was pulled over in Stafford Sunday with children improperly secured in the vehicle, police said.

A man walking in the left lane of northbound I-95 near mile marker 131.6 in Fredericksburg was struck by two cars in the early morning hours Friday, Sgt.

Three people have been arrested in connection with robberies in Stafford County earlier this month in which the same victim was robbed twice in less than 10 hours, police said.

Three Democrats have put their names in the race for the four Stafford County Board of Supervisors seats on the ballot this fall.

Thursday 6:30 p.m. - The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for the City of Fredericksburg and the counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford and King George through Thursday evening.

Thunderstorms heading to the area Wednesday afternoon into Thursday have the potential to produce "a significant weather event," the National Weather Service reported.

A Stafford County man who rammed a deputy's cruiser while trying to elude a traffic stop last year was ordered Tuesday to serve two years and three months in prison.

The National Weather Service expects the Rappahannock River to crest at 16.8 feet at City Dock in Fredericksburg after midnight tonight.

Mr. Morris served in the Marine Reserves after graduating from James Monroe High School in 1948.

Their choices for lieutenant governor are Northern Virginia technology expert and political appointee Aneesh Chopra, who was former Gov. Tim Kaine's secretary of technology, or Norfolk-based pediatric neurologist and state Sen. Ralph Northam.

Stafford County deputies arrested two county residents early Friday after using a Taser on them following a brief pursuit that ended up in Fredericksburg, police said.

A Stafford County resident has been charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter after a man he allegedly assaulted died of his injuries, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office reported.

Heavy rainfall is expected through Friday night in the Fredericksburg region, the National Weather Service reported.

A fire that started in a Stafford county townhouse Thursday afternoon damaged three houses and displaced three families, according to assistant fire chief Mark Doyle.

Stafford County fire and rescue units were called to the Stafford Oaks Townhomes on Maple Drive around 2:30 p.m. That's where firefighters found flames shooting from a middle unit in a row of townhouses.

Caleb Newton of Spotsylvania, Virginia caught this 36-inch long, 17-pound, 6-ounce snakehead from a Potomac River tributary near Stafford, Virginia on June 1. The fish could best the current world record fish, caught in 2004 in Japan, by two ounces.

Five years after the death of their colleague and friend Todd Bahr, the Fredericksburg Police Department gathered to honor another colleague who performed heroically that fateful night.