Stafford County News

James Douglas Manring, a former fixture in the Fredericksburg region for his involvement with youth, was sentenced Friday to serve 14 years in federal prison.

People heading south for the Memorial Day weekend are running into delays that stretch for miles.

A 28-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested in Stafford County, Va., in what authorities say is one of the largest drug seizures of its type in the region's history.

The family of Angel Roldan Jr. of Stafford County found out last week that he had been killed May 16 in an explosion in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, along with three other DynCorp International employees.

Concerns over loud gunfire, explosions and a driving course could be the biggest hurdles facing an anti-terrorism training facility that hopes to expand in western Stafford County.

It was well worth spending an hour at the Porter Library in Stafford County to learn more about identity theft.

Kenneth E. Boyd, 89, of Fredericksburg died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Falls Run Nursing & Rehab Center in Stafford County.

Regarding the bomber, Laurence Alan Stewart II: No doubt the young man's mind is out of order.

The Virginia Republican party will gather for its state convention in Richmond this Friday and Saturday to nominate candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general for the November election.

"There is never enough money; that is the very definition of budget," said Nancy Collins, the Stafford County budget director, recently ["Budget options few for Stafford schools," May 10]. How insulting! The county budget process is broken.

Release, Virginia Department of Transportation: Interstate 95 is closed south of Exit 133/Falmouth in Stafford County for a crash involving hazardous materials.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board laid out a six-year plan Wednesday that has an additional $4 billion in its overall budget and looks at adding another lane to congested Interstate 95 in Stafford County.

Stafford School Board members appeared shocked Tuesday night after Superintendent Randy Bridges announced his resignation, a year before his contract was slated to end.

Recently, Russ Moulton wrote that Stafford families shouldn't be paying more local taxes than Spotsylvania residents ["Stafford taxes families too heavily!" April 23]. I don't know where he lives, but my commute to and from State Route 610 to State Route 3 can be 30-45 minutes.

He is preceded in death by his parents, William T. Thurston Sr. and Annie Thurston of Woodbridge; and his loving wife, Mary Frances Thurston.

A Stafford County doctor facing 95 felony charges connected to an alleged misuse of pain medication prescriptions will be in jail at least until Thursday.

A 22-year-old Quantico woman has been accused of fabricating a robbery that she said occurred at a Walmart in Stafford County last month, police said.

An FBI agent in Stafford County is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife.

Virginia State Police Trooper D.J. Jablonski is investigating the crash which occurred at 11:59 a.m. about 800 feet north of State Route 630 in Stafford.

Media outlets report that 54-year-old Dr. Nibedita Mohanty was arrested Friday for allegedly prescribing tens of thousands of doses of narcotics to drug-addicted patients and drug traffickers.