Police are investigating the death of a Stafford thrift store owner whose body was found inside the business.

STAFFORD—A Stafford County man faces charges of second-degree murder in the death of his infant son. Jason Wade Andre, 31, was arrested late Thursday after an indictment, which was presented to a Stafford grand jury last week, according to the Stafford Sheriff’s Office. On June 29, Andre’s 7-week-old son was having trouble breathing; with CPR in progress, Stafford deputy William Johnson responded to the 911 call for help. Johnson assisted in CPR efforts before emergency crews could take the baby to Stafford Hospital Center. The baby was then taken by helicopter to Inova Fairfax Hospital.

An accounting error within the Stafford County school system resulted in a $5.6 million surplus that went unnoticed for two years.

STAFFORD If a military unit or a law-enforcement agency needs—right away—a robot tank or a pirate-blasting sound system, long-range thermal binoculars or uniforms with built-in tourniquets, the Force Protection Equipment Demonstration is the place to find them. “

Nine-year-old Matthew Cabell is used to having a long-distance relationship with his dad. Soon, many of his classmates at Margaret Brent Elementary School in Stafford County will get a sense of what it feels like. Matthew’s father, Lt. Col. Joseph Cabell, who is beginning his third tour of duty in Iraq, will be pen pals with his son’s fourth-grade class.

Someone stole a laptop and other items from a woman’s car after the woman stopped on Interstate 95 in Caroline County on Sunday to help out at a car crash, police said yesterday.

Asoldier from Stafford County who was injured by a bomb in Iraq received a Purple Heart medal during a ceremony last month at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

Hispanics accounted for just more than half of the overall U.S. population growth since 2000, a study released today by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center found. Frederick, Culpeper, Fauquier, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Loudoun and Prince William counties in Virginia are among 25 counties in the nation with the largest percentage change in Hispanic population from 2000 to 2007, the study found.