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Many states have victim’s advocates or child advocates, people in the judicial system who represent those affected by crime or abuse. Now, one state has created legal advocates for abused animals, an experiment being watched nationwide for signs of success. There are eight approved volunteer advocates across Connecticut — seven lawyers and a University of Connecticut law professor, working with...

Police arrested two men in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia.

The man who provided the gun used to kill a teacher’s aide was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A judge sentenced a man to 40 years in prison with all but nine years suspended in an illegal firearms case.

Police arrested two men in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia.

A Virginia middle school teacher accused of committing sex acts with a student is now facing charges connected to a second teen, police say.

Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick is centering his fledgling campaign on a defense of corporations and capitalism that puts him directly at odds with some of the party’s most progressive figures.

The Utah high school where the Disney movie “High School Musical” was filmed over a decade ago has become a tourist destination, and the trend could grow with the premiere of Disney’s new streaming service series based on the film. Much of the popular 2006 movie was filmed at East High School in Salt Lake City. To draw in fans,...

A man who worked as a substitute teacher and teacher’s assistant at two Virginia elementary schools has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for trying to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual conduct

Lenovo’s Motorola on Wednesday announced a new version of the iconic Razr flip phone. It has a full touch screen display inside — no keypad — but still folds in half like the clamshell design of phones from the 1990s and early 2000s. I like the throwback design. It will succeed the Samsung Galaxy Fold as the second foldable phone...

In 2015, $220 million was lost to wire fraud in the United States. In 2019, losses will surpass $1.5 billion, according to WFG National Title Insurance Company. In the past, attempts to trick people were often clumsy, FBI agents told journalists on Friday. Now they can be sophisticated. If people are asked via email to transfer money under a deadline,...

A Virginia middle school teacher accused of committing sex acts with a student was caught by the boy’s mother, evidence shows.

New details reveal how a middle school teacher’s relationship with a student was discovered. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports a sex act took place in a classroom.

The family of a 13-year-old says he complained to an administrator that he was being bullied at his Southern California middle school days before the assault that was caught on cellphone video that killed him.

President Donald Trump’s private calendar helps support a former “Apprentice” contestant’s claim that he subjected her to unwanted kissing and groping, her lawyer said in a court filing Thursday. The calendar records, filed in Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit, show Trump was scheduled to be at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California on Dec. 21, 2007, in the timeframe when she...

Authorities have released a video that shows part of a former Oregon football star’s successful effort to disarm a student who brought a shotgun to a Portland high school.