by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 30, 2024 | Art, Crime and Courts, Education
‘Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It.’ Rappahannock native Connie Compton leads law enforcement in a ‘small town’ county A Rapp News/Foothills Forum Special Report FF-RCSO-Compton-66-web.jpgSheriff Connie Compton at the Laurel Mills Store, where at age 14 she...
by Randy Rieland | Aug 5, 2021 | Business, Crime and Courts, Health
Trained clinicians have joined law enforcement officers in responding to mental health calls in the region The call was about a man threatening suicide. In response, a Fauquier County sheriff’s deputy drove to the scene, hoping he could talk him out of it. He never...
by Bob Hurley | Jul 12, 2021 | Art, Crime and Courts, Local Services
‘Drugs are everywhere’ But county consistently has had among the lowest violent crime rates in Virginia A Rapp News/Foothills Forum Special Report Rappahannock County is blessed with one of the lowest serious crime rates in Virginia. So what worries Rappahannock...
