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Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on activists protesting the hiring of DC’s Police Chief Peter Newsham as the new chief of Prince William County.

A man who tried to rob a drug dealer was shot to death, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

An attorney for a former police officer accused of raping a woman he had in custody says his client is innocent and asked for his release. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports a judge denied the request.

A man was shot and killed Tuesday night during a fight inside a liquor store in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, police say.

A Maryland woman accused a police officer of raping her inside a police station while she was in custody, and police said she never should have been taken to the station.

For more than three decades, Sharon Bulova helped lead Fairfax County during its growth in population and diversity. Now, after a decade as Board Chair — she’s headed into retirement. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey was there as Bulova presided over her last meeting and reflected on her tenure.

A 19-year-old woman says she was raped at a Maryland police station after a traffic stop. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports.

Outgoing Prince William County Board Chair Corey Stewart said he will introduce a resolution on Tuesday that would declare Prince William County a “Second Amendment Sanctuary.” Historically red counties and cities in Virginia are passing these resolutions ahead of the new blue general assembly next year.

A man accused of murdering a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student in a campus parking garage allegedly killed her because she ignored his catcalls.

A man is facing first degree murder charges in connection with the death of 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student Ruth George, university police say.

After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority. Now, newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing...

Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins dives into a new book by University of Maryland professor of history Richard Bell. Through his research, Bell tells the real-life stories of five free black boys who were kidnapped into slavery in the 1820s at the hands of a Maryland woman named Patty Cannon.

Though 20 years have passed since a gunman killed three people and himself at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, some D.C. officers remember the traumatic event like it was yesterday.

Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on the death of Sean Spence. Friends, family and neighbors are reeling after Spence was shot multiple times in his own driveway. Police have not apprehended the killer.

A police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded while responding to a home invasion on Detroit’s West Side, authorities announced late Wednesday. The officers were searching the home for a suspect when they were shot, Police Chief James Craig said. An 18-year veteran of Detroit Police was shot in the neck with a high-powered rifle, Craig said. The...

A Bay Area prosecutor used his 13-year-old daughter to lure a man back to the spot where she said he had molested her, so the man’s incriminating actions could be recorded on video, according to a newspaper report Sunday.

Officials say a possible data breach may have compromised the personal information of more than 500 employees of a Virginia police department.

A man charged with fatally stabbing a Popeyes restaurant customer who reportedly had cut to the line will be held without bond.

The youngest victim of the Potomac River Rapist hopes he spends the rest of his life in prison and says she’ll do whatever she can to help make that happen.

Darcy Spencer spoke to the youngest victim of the Potomac River Rapist about the arrest of a suspect.