Crime, Police & Fire (2024)

Drug charges were dropped Friday against a man who was instrumental in bringing down a pharmacist who was illegally distributing drugs from his Fredericksburg pharmacy.

A Stafford County man was ordered Friday to serve 18 months in prison for appearing in a music video while holding a firearm, court records show.

A Spotsylvania County man who, according to court records, admitting viewing or downloading about a million images of child p*rnography over the past 17 years pleaded guilty to two charges this week.

Charges are pending against an adult after a 5-year-old boy showed up at school with a loaded firearm Thursday morning, police said.

While book removals from Spotsylvania County school libraries was a hot-button issue last year, the issue has been nonexistent in 2024.

The Board of Supervisors gave permission for the Enon Road Solar Farm application to be resubmitted, earlier than usual.

Read through the obituaries published today in Fredericksburg Free Lance Star.

A year and a half after rehabilitation work on the downtown Fredericksburg train station started the project’s completion was celebrated on Tuesday.

“I really didn’t expect this to happen!” the winner told lottery officials. “I called my girlfriend, and she didn’t believe me!”

Legal experts say the case likely won't succeed in court, while other Jewish students worry it will place a target on their backs.

Historian FrankCogliano had hoped to stay on at or maybe even lead Monticello one day. He will be leaving June 30.

Energix US will pay a $158,000 fine for violating erosion and sediment control regulations at seven sites.

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A Spotsylvania man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly fired shots at his fleeing wife during a domestic altercation, police said.

A Spotsylvania man who got away with $126,000 in cash after robbing a King George store nearly two years ago was ordered Thursday to serve seven years in prison.

A Stafford juvenile was arrested Wednesday in connection with the slaying of another Stafford teen in Woodbridge last year, police said.

Fredericksburg police are apparently zeroing in on an arrest in the June 2023 slaying of a 19-year-old man in the city, court records indicate.

Democrats said Youngkin’s veto of a bill that would have let the state tap federal funds to finance clean energy projects will cost Virginia still more.

Virginia is launching a new multimillion-dollar economic development initiative. It aims to use a federal grant with matching funds from venture capital firms to fund small businesses.

A new Virginia lawwill expand all localities’ speed-reducing authority to include roadways within a business or residential district and state-owned highways.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin added to his record-long list of vetoes, killing 48 measures including those that would add a right to contraception to Virginia law.