Andrea Swalec Va

A 12-year-old girl who accused three sixth-grade boys of pinning her down and cutting her dreadlocks has admitted to school officials she was not attacked and cut her own hair, her family’s attorney said.

Three sixth-grade boys at a Christian school in Northern Virginia pinned down a black classmate and cut off some of her dreadlocks while telling her her hair was “nappy” and “ugly,” she told News4.

A federal judge granted an injunction to stop Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles from enforcing a law requiring automatic license suspensions for failure to pay court fines.

A woman shot and killed her husband in a dispute in their Virginia home Wednesday, according to Prince William County police.

If people caught committing minor crimes on Ficklen Island are polite and have no criminal record, Young gives them the option to clean up the riverbank instead of being fined for drinking in public, among other charges.

Dozens of injured service members are mounting up to raise awareness in the nation’s capital about bicycling rehabilitation for disabled veterans.