On Thursday, May 19 at 8:19. a.m., the School Resource Officer (SRO) at Potomac High School, 3401 Panther Pride Drive in Woodbridge was notified by school personnel that there was a student with a gun inside the school.
The investigation revealed that another student was inside a bathroom when a different student, later identified as the accused, brandished a firearm under a bathroom stall.
There were 34 individuals from the senior apartment complex in Fredericksburg that were displaced and relocated on May 17 to the Clarion Choice Hotel in Central Park, Fredericksburg. Since then, the Fredericksburg Department of Social Services (DSS) has been on-site at the Clarion and working with many religious and community partner organizations to find alternative housing plans.
Those organizations include, but are not limited to, the Continuum of Care, Micah Ministries, Healthy Generations, and the American Red Cross.
High school seniors at all five Stafford County Public Schools graduated on Saturday, May 21. The ceremonies were held at the schools, starting at 8 a.m.
For the remainder of the students, the last day of school is Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
Almost 4,000 runners from 48 states and seven countries conquered the streets of Fredericksburg for the 2022 Marine Corps Historic Half.
U.S. Marine Captain Kyle King, 32, from Alexandria, won the “Greatest Half in History” with a time of 1:13:24. King, a recent graduate of the Expeditionary Warfare School at Quantico Marine Corps Base and a member of the All-Marine Running Team, participated in the Marine Corps Historic Half before moving to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California.
Clean-up continues following a crippling snowstorm that hit our region on January 3, closing a portion of Interstate 95 between Dumfries and Kings Dominion.
Debris clean-up along Interstate 95 in the Fredericksburg area is complete. Now, crews may concentrate on debris removal along primary and secondary roads in Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford counties.
The right lane of Interstate 95 southbound in Fredericksburg is fixed.
VDOT crews completed an emergency maintenance repair at milepost 131, near Route 3, to address erosion south of the Rappahannock River bridge.
Three-time MLB All-Star and 2019 World Series MVP starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg will start Fredericksburg Nationals game against the Salem Red Sox at Virginia Credit Union Stadium on Tuesday, May 24 as part of a minor league rehab assignment.
The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.
About 2,200 Dominion Power customers in Stafford County are without power after a storm.
Those who live on the Widewater Penninsula and in the Holly Corner areas of Stafford County are most affected. The lights should be back on by 4 a.m., according to Dominion.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office honored nearly 40 of its members during an awards ceremony Thursday, May 19, at Mount Ararat Baptist Church in North Stafford.
Deputies were honored for incidents that included solving homicides, capturing robbery suspects, using first aid training to save lives, and deescalating volatile situations.
