Police reports: 02-07

Fire displaces Gainesville famiy

Gov. Bob McDonnell said only a fraction of taxpayers who qualified for the Virginia Free File program last year used it.

The town of Dumfries will hold its 10th annual Black History Month Celebration at noon Saturday at the Little Union Baptist Church.

After last week's temperatures in the 70s, Mother Nature is going to remind us it's still winter.

It doesn't seem to be happening to everyone, but updating your status or checking on friends on Facebook might not be so easy this morning.

BY KEITH EPPS Windows in at least 39 area vehicles have been shot out in recent days, police said....

A Stafford County deputy happened to be in the right place at the right time to apprehend a suspect in a theft, police said. Sheriff's Office spokesman Bill Kennedy said Deputy Larry Sturdivant was on Warrenton Road heading to an unrelated call Saturday when he received notice to be on the lookout for someone who had just taken money from the Handy Mart at 1186 Warrenton Road....

Spotsylvania Superintendent Shelley K. Redinger is not considering outsourcing the school division's cafeteria staff, despite the need to make big cuts in next year's budget, spokeswoman Rene Daniels said Monday. Redinger did not recommend that in her fiscal 2013 budget proposal and did not make that recommendation on Friday when she provided an overview of her plan to streamline the division for the 2012-13 school year....

The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office is looking for two suspects in the robbery of a pizza delivery driver lured to an apartment complex with a phony order. The incident occurred about 12:45 a.m. Saturday at the Brittany Commons apartment complex off Courthouse Road, Sheriff's Capt. Mike Harvey said. A driver for Papa Johns said he was delivering a pizza to an apartment when he was approached by two black males, one of whom was displaying a knife....