Julie Carey is the Northern Virginia Bureau Chief for News4.
Carey has been covering Northern Virginia since joining News4 in 1992. Her reporting has taken her all over the commonwealth, including Richmond, where she has covered the governor, the general assembly, and every election since 1993. She is frequently called upon to participate in political debates involving Virginia candidates.
Carey has also done extensive reporting on issues of regional interest, including sex offenders, child abuse, and the integration of women into the Virginia Military Institute. In the late 1990s, she provided daily coverage of the Kenneth Starr grand jury investigations and the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. She has also been the lead reporter on some high-profile regional trials, including those of George Huguely and sniper suspect Lee Malvo.
Prior to joining News4, Carey reported for KSDK-TV in St. Louis, WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, and KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she began her career. She graduated from Indiana University with a journalism degree.
Carey was raised in Iowa in a family of journalists. She and her husband, the managing editor for Bloomberg, live in Alexandria. Her son and daughter, both graduates of what is now known as Alexandria City High School, are attending college.
Carey is active as a volunteer in Alexandria Public Schools and in her church.
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Virginia Democrats push governor to guarantee access to contraception
Democratic Virginia lawmakers again are trying to get Gov. Glenn Youngkin to sign legislation guaranteeing access to a wide array of contraception medications and devices. Democrats got 37,000 Virginians to sign a petition for Youngkin to sign the Right to Contraception Act approved by the Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate and House of Delegates. Guaranteeing access to all contraception is crucial, co-sponsor…
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Defense tries to shift blame in crash that killed two Oakton High students
Emotional testimony came in court Thursday from a key witness in the June 2022 crash that killed two Oakton high school students who were walking home from school.
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Defense tries to shift blame in deadly 2022 crash
Emotional testimony came in court Thursday from a key witness in the June 2022 crash that killed two Oakton High School students who were walking home from school in Fairfax County, Virginia. News4’s Julie Carey reports.
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Arlington church, nonprofit create affordable housing with faith-based development
A church partnered with a housing nonprofit to create dozens of affordable rental units in Arlington, Virginia. Built in the 1920s, Central United Methodist became a landmark, standing just across the street from the Ballston Metro station. Now the location is an example of faith-based development to create more affordable housing. The church partnered with Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing...
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Woman, dog stabbed in Herndon before husband shot by police
A Northern Virginia woman and her dog were stabbed in an apparent domestic incident over the weekend, Herndon police say. The woman’s husband, the suspect in the stabbing, was shot by police who responded to the 911 call. The woman called 911 just before noon Sunday and said her husband had stabbed her. She then hung up. When Herndon police…
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Driver sentenced to 10 years for hit-and-run that killed Lorton man
A driver who pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run crash that killed a man in Lorton, Virginia, in 2020 was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison. Joey Lanza was 28 when he was hit and killed in February 2020 outside his own home. More than four years later, his family feared that a judge would let driver Guillermo Vazquez…
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‘It was their responsibility': Grieving parents want to know how teenager died in Virginia jail
The parents of a Northern Virginia teenager want to know how their son died last month after only days in the Prince William County Adult Detention Center. Juan Campos’ parents call the 18-year-old a great kid who loved sports, was a black belt in tae kwon do and talked about joining the U.S. Marine Corps but struggling with drug...
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Legendary 95-year-old educator leaves $1 million to Prince William County schools
Orlich did not have chlldren of her own, but she gave and gave and gave to the school community that was her family.
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Naming the nameless: Jane Doe exhumed in Fauquier County to try to identify woman, solve case
A woman’s body was discovered under an abandoned school bus in Fauquier County in 1976. Nearly 50 years later, no one in the sheriff’s office even remembered the case, until they were contacted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia, and told about a special program to try and name the nameless.
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Officer injured after being surrounded by drivers at illegal Springfield car meetup
An 18-year-old was arrested after a large car meetup left one officer injured and a police cruiser damaged early Sunday in Springfield, Virginia.
