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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — After someone posing a police officer walked into a Stafford County home and held two people at gunpoint, authorities in that county want you to be familiar with police uniforms.

The crime happened at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Riggs Road in the Leeland Station subdivision. A white man, 5 feet 10 inches tall, with short, dark hair, weighing between 250 and 285 pounds, between 35 and 45-years-old, knocked on the door of the house. When the home occupants answered, the man displayed a gun and forced the two into the interior section of the house, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William County leaders on Tuesday night passed a nearly $989 million budget for fiscal year 2015 that will take effect July 1.

Without knowing how much money they’ll get from Richmond as lawmakers have yet to pass a statewide budget, local leaders set the tax rate at $1.148 per every $100 of assessed property value. The rate is four cents lower than last year’s tax rate, but average tax bills are expected to rise about 4.5%.


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Stafford tax preparer pleads guilty in scheme — A Stafford County tax preparer pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme that netted an estimated $600,000 in false tax refunds from 2009 to 2012. [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

Stafford schools win state honors — Three Stafford County schools have received statewide recognition. Governor Terry McAuliffe and the Board of Education announced today that 212 schools and four school divisions earned 2014 Virginia Index of Performance awards for advanced learning and achievement. [Fredericksburg.com]


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