FREDERICKSBURG — Spc. Jeremy Zirk couldn’t stop looking at his 10-month old daughter when he arrived last week.

BEREA — A twirling 120 mph wind whistled through Cornerstone Baptist Church on May 8 shortly before 11 p.m. 

NORTH STAFFORD — U.S. 1 at Aquia will reopen to limited traffic this afternoon, giving another option for commuters who have struggled with closed and flooded roads since Sunday night. 

STAFFORD—Portions of U.S. 1 at the Stafford-Prince William County line were under water Sunday night, with traffic being turned around near the Boswell’s Corner area of Stafford County. 

STAFFORD — A water main break above the Claiborne Run Creek may disrupt water service to Stafford utilities customers who live in the Chatham Heights area of Stafford County, according to a county press release.

BEREA — U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman, R-1st District, toured the site of the devastation from Thursday’s tornado in the England Run North subdivision on Saturday in Stafford County.

Thursday’s tornado affected numerous south Stafford families. The following phone numbers are agencies available to help them, and anyone needing information regarding the local disaster:

BEREA — The England Run North Storm Response Service Center opened at 8 a.m. on Saturday at the Berea Fire & Rescue Station. 

The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado did touch down in the England Run area of south Stafford on Thursday night, according to Mark Stone, with Stafford County Fire and Rescue. 

Numerous instances of flooding have been reported across central Virginia.

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Thirty legislators — from both parties, from both ends of Virginia’s urban crescent — crowded around a conference table Tuesday, searching for common ground on a fiscal fix for transportation. 

STAFFORD — An escalating feud between two rival garbage disposal companies — Stafford-based Shifflett’s Trash Service and Davis Disposal of
Spotsylvania — has frustrated local officials, prompting them to drop all charges in the arrest of a trash company employee.

Proposed alcohol-drug recovery center in Hartwood has some residents on edge; others back program

STAFFORD — Lieutenant Gov. Bill Bolling addressed a group at a National Day of Prayer breakfast held at Regester United Methodist Church on May 1.

Mildred Jeter Loving, a Caroline County woman who demolished the last legal bulwark of racial segregation in America, has died. 

STAFFORD — Four local males were arrested following a robbery near Village Parkway on April 29, reported Stafford County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Bill Kennedy on May 1. 

The following is taken from calls to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office from April 28-May 5:

STAFFORD — Discussion on a possible bond referendum concerning parks and recreation was held in the Stafford County Administration Center on May 2.

STAFFORD — The woman who was sexually involved with a man who shot his two children, their mother and then himself was shocked when told of the incident by the media Tuesday afternoon. 

FALMOUTH — A quiet trailer park on U.S. 1 became the scene of a murder investigation Monday night when Stafford County Sheriff’s Office deputies found four people dead, including two small children.

Because of the old Marine whose feisty spirit imbues the Globe and Laurel, the local landmark will live on.

STAFFORD — An escalating feud between two rival garbage disposal companies — Stafford-based Shifflett’s Trash Service and Davis Disposal of Spotsylvania — has resulted in one man being arrested, and another left hoping someone does not get killed in an escalating dispute.

STAFFORD — At the April 15 meeting of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors, the Secondary Six-Year Improvement Program — a six-year plan for secondary road improvements in Stafford County — was presented by Transportation Administrator Fulton deLamorton. 

NORTH STAFFORD — A major retail store in the area says it wants to help relieve some of the commuter-parking burden in Stafford County.
Bill Dawson, Target store manager at Stafford Marketplace, said the store has an open parking lot on the side of its building that is rarely used, and would be an ideal commuter parking area. 

STAFFORD — A former University of Mary Washington President has been arrested in Maryland on his third drunken driving charge in a year.
William John Frawley, 54, of Chevy Chase, Md., was arrested April 10 for allegedly attempting to drive his car under the influence of alcohol, according to court documents.

AQUIA — A contentious, two-hour town hall meeting in Aquia Harbour drew more than 100 residents Sunday afternoon and produced no agreement on three financial topics of prime concern to this private 2,500-home community.

Officials celebrate 1,770 acres becoming a natural area preserve.

STAFFORD — Christopher Nadeau, 20, was in court Tuesday on first-degree murder conviction and related child-abuse charges, and was sentenced to 55 years in prison. 

Governor Timothy M. Kaine today hailed Stafford County’s recent acquisition of 1,770 acres of waterfront property known as Crow’s Nest.