UPDATE: It appears no one was injured in a tractor trailer crash that closed a portion of U.S. 17 in Stafford County on Thursday morning.
The truck crashed near the Fauquier County line about 9:30 a.m., according to police.
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A 21-year-man was killed Saturday night in Stafford County.
Ian Cummings died after he pulled his 2008 Nissan Maxima onto Interstate 95 from a median and sideswiped a tractor trailer, at 10:20 p.m.
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*Video from a 2008 press conference held after two people drowned while swimming in the Rappahannock River. Following their deaths, Stafford officials erected signs in both English and Spanish warning river goers of the dangers the Rappahannock poses.
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You normally don’t see too many large, bronze crucifixes along the roadside.
But one sits on U.S. 1 in Stafford County. It marks the first time in Virginia that all religions were tolerated and allowed to live in the same region of the commonwealth.
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At 7-years-old, Lacee says she really liked the bunnies at the petting zoo at the Occoquan River Festival on Saturday. She picked them over the ducks, ponies and goats that also filled the pens at the temporary zoo erected on Mill Street, the town’s main drag.
“I really like them because they are so soft. I think a pet goat would be too much trouble and I don’t think there is a cage big enough for the goats,” said Lacee.
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Fredericksburg line train 309, coming from Fredericksburg to Washington’s Union Station, was late making it back to pickup passengers for its 5:15 p.m. departure from the Washington rail hub.
After completing it’s midday run as train 301, which left Union Station at 12:55 p.m., the train encountered problems on its return trip south of Franconia, said VRE spokeswoman April Maguigad.
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One man is out to raise $30,000 for unborn children.
Jonathan Arehart, CEO of Cavendo Corporation in Manassas, was picked by a local chapter of the March of Dimes to lead a fund raising and awareness effort for the March for Babies, a major fundraiser for the organization.
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The old rescue station is coming down and a new courthouse annex is going up.
Stafford County officials will spend $3 million to build new offices that will house its Commonwealth Attorney and Court Services organizations, where a 30-year-old department of fire and rescue building that used to house a rescue squad now stands on the grounds of the county’s administrative center and courthouse.
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When the Union soldiers arrived Stafford County in 1862 more than 10,000 slaves from Fredericksburg and the surrounding area saw their chance to escape, starting on the Trail to Freedom.
Many crossed the Rappahannock River, near where the Port of Falmouth Park sits today, and that’s where county leaders and historians on Saturday dedicated two new plaques that tell the story of the slaves’ run to freedom.
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The band played on last night in Triangle as the National Marine Corps Museum kicked off what it hopes will become an summertime tradition.
Members of the National Marine Corps Band played for area residents who pitched lawn chairs in Semper Fidelis Memorial Park, outside the museum. The two-hour free concert began at 7 p.m., and in addition to the music it was a chance for those who attended to have a picnic on the lawn where sandwiches, drinks and ice cream were sold.