Northern Virginia

A police officer was shot and wounded in Old Town Alexandria on Monday morning, and the suspect was later found dead after an exchange of gunfire, police say. Residents in the area were told to stay indoors for a period but there is now no threat to the public, officials said in an update.

Fairfax County’s top prosecutor has a warning — and words of reassurance — about voter intimidation during election season.

Small businesses in Virginia are set to get an extra boost in funding, the governor says. The state will allocate an additional $30 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to support small businesses, Gov. Ralph Northam announced at a press conference Wednesday. Northam says the types of businesses that will be...

Virginia became the third state in the country to ban no-knock warrants, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday. The move comes as Northam signed into law several police and criminal justice reform bills this week. “These reforms also reduce militarization of police equipment, standardize law enforcement training requirements and strengthen t...

Days before the 2020 election, politicians are campaigning hard but floods of people have already submitted their ballots across D.C., Maryland and Virginia. More than 20,000 D.C. residents voted in-person on Tuesday, the first day that polls opened for early voting. That means about 30% of all registered voters in the District have now cast their ...

A Virginia community has found a special way to honor a teenager who drowned over the summer. The Loudoun County School Board voted unanimously to rename the Riverside High School stadium after 16-year-old Fitz Thomas. The field will now be called Fitz Alexander Campbell Thomas Memorial Stadium or FACT Field. Thomas’ mother, who fought for ch...

A 4-month-old puppy faced euthanasia after being hit by a car until a Virginia Humane Society stepped in to save him. Cash’s first owner got him to help hunt bears, but well before his first hunt, Cash was hit by a car. Rose Rogers of the Middleburg Humane Society said the veterinarian wanted to amputate Cash’s hind leg. “And...

A teachers’ union in Virginia’s largest school district is urging members to call in sick Wednesday for a “mental health day” as ponder how they will respond to a gradual return to in-person learning

Miami-Dade police said authorities found the body of an aspiring hip-hop artist inside the trunk of a Virginia man’s car after he crashed on a Miami highway

A police officer in Northern Virginia has saved the life of an unconscious driver after pulling him from a burning car

Who’s destroying campaign signs in Northern Virginia?  Signs for candidates from both parties have been torn to shreds for weeks along a stretch of Williamsburg Boulevard in Arlington. As soon as a sign goes up, it’s destroyed.  A resident said he recently saw a man “holler and yelling” in the middle of the day as he tore signs from......

A red maple tree that was recently planted at Timbrook Park in Winchester, Virginia, honors fatal overdose victims. It also is a symbol of hope for survivors. “We plant roots in recovery and the tree is going to grow in the city,” Andrea Wright, a recovery advocate with Aspen Recovery Consultants, told about 20 drug treatment supporters at the cere...

Trailblazer, educator and philanthropist Jennie Dean was honored with a statue in Manasssas, Virginia, on Saturday. Dean opened the Manassas Industrial School, the first school for Black children in Northern Virginia. News4’s Derrick Ward has more on Dean’s legacy.