View Comments STAUNTON — A woman reportedly armed with a handgun kept Augusta County authorities at bay during a standoff Tuesday that lasted several hours, a press release said. After negotiations failed, shortly before 4 p.m. members of the Augusta County Sheriff's Office entered the home and ended the armed standoff. County authorities were called out to the 700 block of Parkersburg Turnpike shortly before 9:30 a.m. to serve a court order and conduct a welfare check on the woman, who is in her 60s, the release said. "Threats to shoot the deputies were made, and the woman barricaded herself inside the home," according to the press release.