Bedford

One January morning two years ago, hackers seized control of the Bedford Police Department’s electronic records. They were holding them hostage, and time was ticking; the longer the town waited to pay up, the higher the ransom demand would climb.

A great white shark got up close and personal with a GoPro camera off Cape Cod.
The video camera caught the inquisitive shark swimming off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.
Footage released by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy during a research trip on June 30 shows the shark circling the GoPro, at one point swimming toward and bumping the camera.

There are fewer and fewer residents of Bedford, Virginia, who actually remember the day they learned their “Bedford Boys” were lost in the D-Day invasion. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey spoke to one sister who is determined to keep the story alive.

As we mark 75 years since D-Day, the sacrifices made by so many hit especially hard in the small mountain town of Bedford, Virginia. Thousands, including Vice President Mike Pence, gathered at the National D-Day Memorial there Thursday to remember the Allied invasion that became the turning point in World War II. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey visited the...

Bedford, Virginia, suffered the biggest proportional loss of any American community on D-Day. Julie Carey reports on the new center that helps keep alive the memory of the “Bedford Boys” who were killed that day.

The sacrifices made by residents of a small Virginia town are being honored on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

The sacrifices made by residents of a small Virginia town are being honored on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

The Nation’s Capital is remembering those killed on D-Day, which occurred 75 years ago. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

The 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy has a powerful significance for a small Virginia town.

Research has shown that people have a tendency to project human traits onto robots, especially when they move or act in even vaguely human-like ways. Designers acknowledge that such traits can be powerful tools for both connection and manipulation. That could be an especially acute issue as robots move into our homes — particularly if, like so many other home...

Defying NFL custom and at least temporarily creating a quarterback quandary, the Arizona Cardinals led off the NFL draft Thursday night by selecting Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, the Heisman Trophy winner.

The parents of a 21-year-old West Point cadet killed in a skiing accident raced the clock to get a judge’s permission to retrieve his sperm for “the possibility of preserving some piece of our child that might live on.”

In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40 hits in a nightclub where he’d found work as a DJ. As he entertained patrons from a dimly lit booth overlooking a stage at the Ultra Gentlemen’s Club, where Halloween decorations hung in anticipation...

In her testimony to a Senate committee, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers dipped briefly into the mechanics of memory. Experts say she got it pretty much right. When asked Thursday how she could be sure it was Kavanaugh who put a hand over her mouth to keep her quiet, psychologist Christine...

A couple from New York was killed following a small plane crash in Woburn, Massachusetts. The plane crashed into the woods behind a house on Minchin Drive around 11 a.m. Saturday. The victims were identified as 65-year-old Dr. Michael Graver and his 52-year-old wife, Jodi Cohen, of Manhasset.

A dying man’s wish to see the new “Star Wars” movie is coming true, thanks to a cast of many.

Investigators knew Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. was a pedophile and a sociopath and certain he abducted and killed the Lyon sisters more than 40 years ago, but it took some clever and persistent detectives to get a confession.

The suspect in the 1975 disappearance of two girls from Maryland is expected to plead guilty, the Washington Post first reported.

A Marine was fatally shot in the drive-thru lane at a McDonald’s in Bedford, Indiana, according to police and NBC affiliate WTHR.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally in New Hampshire on Thursday afternoon.