<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Stafford</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/stafford?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><description>Stafford</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Region Decides the Time Is Right for a Tourism Logo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59626-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59626-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What says "Spotsylvania County" better than a $1 bottle of water?]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springfield Man Charged With Killing Girlfriend]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57853-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57853-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 35-year-old Springfield man has been charged with abducting and killing his girlfriend after a fight in the parking lot of a bar, authorities said yesterday in Stafford County, where the woman's body was found in a field.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball in a New City]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51510-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51510-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Nationals' home opener brings baseball back to a different Washington than it was three decades ago in a region that is far bigger, richer and more diverse.]]></description><author> Michael E. Ruane  and D'Vera Cohn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Woman Discovered  Slain in Field]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48051-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48051-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A man walking his dog through a field in Stafford County on Sunday came upon the body of a 35-year-old Prince William County woman about an hour after she was reported missing, and her death is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said yesterday.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard  and Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Crashes, Parents Find Activism an Outlet for Loss]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40654-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40654-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For two years, Carlton Beach walked around in a daze. Even now, he still visits his grandson's grave every day, still sees him as a little boy practicing tae kwon do in the back yard, still finds Coke-can tabs in the yard and wonders whether they are messages from the soda-loving boy.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students' Clout Helping Workers   --  and Unions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35521-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35521-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Universities are one of the few bright spots for labor unions, which have been losing members and power for years.]]></description><author> Susan Kinzie</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community Calls for Diversity at Mary Washington]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22069-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22069-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The University of Mary Washington, populated only by women for most of its 97 years, has changed dramatically since the small public college went co-ed in 1970 and became a university last year. But not dramatically enough for Cherelle Read.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Mary's Restaurant Manager Is Killed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20376-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20376-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The night manager of the Lone Star Steakhouse &#38; Saloon in Lexington Park was found shot to death Thursday morning, apparently the victim of a robbery. Two suspects, including a teenage boy, were arrested in Stafford County about eight hours later, authorities said.]]></description><author> Arthur Santana</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online Child-Sex Sting Results in 9 Arrests]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19962-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19962-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks, sexual predators in the Washington area went trolling for children without fear of being spotted, authorities said Friday. But someone was watching -- 13 undercover police officers.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proposal Angers Both Sides in Development Debate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3673-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3673-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Like baseball and budding trees, the annual attempt by the Stafford County Board of Supervisors to tackle rural development controls is becoming a sign of the season.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Schools To Try Teaching From Afar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48627-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48627-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County's two newest high schools will boast cutting-edge distance learning technology that will enable them to share some teachers by allowing an educator standing in one classroom to appear on a television monitor in a classroom miles away.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Expensive Case of Roadblock Rage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45118-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45118-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[D.C. resident Gerry Dunphy was charged with making a false threat and fined $15,328 after growing increasingly angry about police checkpoints in his neighborhood.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manslaughter Charge Eyed For Owner of Killer Dogs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35466-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35466-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Spotsylvania County Commonwealth's Attorney William Neely said yesterday that he will pursue involuntary manslaughter charges against the woman whose three pit bulls killed an 82-year-old neighbor and her dog.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dam's Demise Lures Fish to Their Rappahannock Roots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30403-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30403-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When the shad arrive each March in the Rappahannock River, after their long voyage north from the Chesapeake Bay, it's viewed around Fredericksburg as the most natural sign of spring, the annual appearance of the bony fish early Virginians smoked and ate to survive.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Counties Try Out Road Building]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10248-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10248-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Mark W. Osborn became a Stafford County supervisor in 2002, he thought the state Department of Transportation could fix the county's festering traffic problems. But those days are gone.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commuters Like Metro More Than They Use It]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10450-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10450-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though Metro is the second busiest transit system in the nation, most people in the region say it doesn't work for them.]]></description><author> Steven Ginsberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outstanding Teachers Honored]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64898-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64898-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In his chemistry classrooms at Garfield High School in Woodbridge, teacher Michael Ahern always prefers an unorthodox approach to get his students to understand the subject.]]></description><author> Ian Shapira</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent Stalks Va. Wardens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2723-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2723-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Tom McElroy's 20 years as a Virginia game warden, his daily rounds patrolling north of Charlottesville to Fauquier County went from being mostly about animals to mostly about people.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Semi-Snow Job]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49273-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49273-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thursday's snowstorm prompted school closings but was too feeble to coat most major roadways.]]></description><author> Michael E. Ruane and Joshua Partlow</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth, Tax Rate Cuts Stretch Schools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38625-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38625-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/stafford</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:38:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The budget vise in which Northern Virginia has found itself lately is putting the squeeze on neighboring counties.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item></channel></rss>