Stafford County, Va. – Stafford school officials want to build more instructional time into their yearly calendar.
They’ll ask parents how they should do it during their next regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 10.
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North Stafford – A house fire in North Stafford left a man, woman and a teenager homeless Monday.
Flames broke out at 208 Whitson’s Run Drive at 9:25 a.m., and when firefighters arrived to the home, they saw smoke billowing from the roof of the house, said Stafford County spokeswoman Cathy Riddle.
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The Stafford Sheriff’s Office will hold a large gathering at the Stafford Marketplace off Va. 610 in North Stafford, from 6 to 9 p.m.
More than 30 businesses and community organizations will be represented at the fair, including the LifeEvac helicopter, local fire and rescue departments and an area animal adoption organization. (more…)
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Woodbridge, Va. – Autocross is how some people wish Drivers Education was taught in schools.
The sport dates back to the 1970s and beyond, participants say. And at C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge on Saturday about 50 drivers signed up to take a spin around a track designed to test their driving skills, turning ability and control, and to see how well they could avoid hitting orange cones. (more…)
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North Stafford, Va. – Cell phones and credit cards were stolen from gym lockers at a North Stafford health club.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to Sport and Health Club at 315 Garrisonville Road on Friday, where they found that the items had been stolen from lockers that had been left unlocked, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy. (more…)
A local congressman says Washington’s police chief assures him authorities in that city won’t ticket drivers who drop off and pick up slugs on 14th Street.
Rep. Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly, D-11th sent a letter to Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier earlier this month after reports surfaced that police officers were ticketing drivers who were picking up slugs in order to use Interstate 395 and 95’s High Occupancy Vehicle lanes. (more…)
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – A veteran police officer is charged with resisting arrest in Stafford County.
Kevin Barrett, 49, was arrested at his home on Mountain View Road about 10:15 p.m. Friday, after he became confrontational with Stafford sheriff’s deputies who were called to his home for a report of a domestic dispute, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
A 30-year-old man was sitting in his car in the parking lot of a 7 Eleven, at 3623 Jeff Davis Highway near Boswell’s Corner at 2:30 a.m. Friday, waiting for a friend when a man walked up and pointed a gun at his head.
The gunman ordered the victim out of his car as and two other males who were with him looked on, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy. (more…)
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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – It appears one man was frustrated with jail officials and he took it out on their cars.
A 27-year-old man who had just been released from jail sometime after 9 a.m. Friday walked out of the detention center and then jumped on top of jail officials’ cars, authorities say.