Gloria Jean Parker-May felt thought Friday morning’s earthquake was something else.

“Right about 5 a.m. I thought I was dreaming, and then wondering why such a big truck would be driving through the neighborhood,” said May about the feeling the quake. “So that explains why the bed was shaking.”


David Watson’s career as an electrical engineer in the Navy may have not prepared him for building cardboard boats, but he likes doing it.

Watson’s labor of love is for Rock Hill Ruitan Club’s Cardboard Boat Regatta, scheduled tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Aquia Landing Park in Stafford County. (more…)


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – You can’t see through the tinted windows of the police car that sits on the median of Va. 610 in North Stafford, but authorities say they can see you.

It’s known as the “decoy car.” A Ford Crown Victoria baring the markings of the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office sits on the heavily traveled six-lane thoroughfare, near Staffordborough Boulevard, to remind drivers to take it easy behind the wheel.


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – The first man distracted the clerk while the second broke into the manager’s office.

That’s how investigators think a July 7 breaking and entering went down at an Exxon gas station on Courthouse Road.


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – When school officials last year set out to collect school supplies for children in Stafford County, residents and businesses donated $30,000 in supplies to the cause.

Those supplies, like pencils, notebook paper and marble composition books, went to help more than 350 families.


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – A series of fires kept rescue crews in Stafford County busy on Monday.

Just before 2 p.m., flames broke out in the area of Greenspring Drive and Ridgecrest Court in North Stafford, in a townhouse community behind Walmart.


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