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Tornado warnings were issued in parts of Maryland and Virginia Thursday evening as severe storms brought strong winds, lightning and hail the size of limes to some areas. Credit: @natashajasso

Two shootings and a stabbing in the same area of Fredericksburg, Virginia, have neighbors worried.

Police are investigating an unusual string of violent crimes in Fredericksburg: two shootings and a stabbing all within two weeks of each other. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder spoke with a mother who lives near the crime scenes on Lafayette Boulevard. At least two suspects are still on the loose.

The family of Tyriek Powell went to the police station in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Tuesday to watch body camera video of efforts to save the 20-year- old’s life after he was shot earlier this month.  Seeing police perform CPR brought no peace. “I’m really just like, a burning hole is inside of me without my son,” Tiffany Thurston, Powell’s mother,...

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey talks with the mother of a Fredericksburg murder victim about how she was not allowed to see her son before his autopsy.

A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to illegally selling ivory ornaments made from elephant tusks

Jerome Wilson, 45, was once a professional fighter, and occasionally inquires about opportunities to compete in matches. But the typical response is that he’s a little older than the fighters they’re looking for.

A Virginia judge has refused to issue a preliminary injunction against a restaurant whose owner has defied Gov. Ralph Northam’s COVID-19 restrictions on businesses

A Virginia family and community are heartbroken after a wrong-way car crash Sunday claimed the lives of two people, including a 23-year-old who served in the U.S. Army Reserve.  Isaac D. Evans, of Locust Grove, was killed in the early-morning crash on Route 3 in Spotsylvania County. He attended Bridgewater College and played on the school football team, and...

A Northern Virginia man who was driving to his father’s house to build a swing set for his nephew died after he was hit by a wrong-way driver. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

A man is accused of placing cameras in his co-worker’s apartment in Fredericksburg, police say.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on a mass vaccination effort in Fredericksburg.

A kayaker has gone missing on Virginia’s Rappahannock River. A search began late Sunday afternoon, The Free Lance-Star reports. Paige Pearson, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, said the male kayaker left the Fredericksburg City Dock with another boater shortly after 4 p.m. They soon encountered rough water, which caused the man’s kayak to...

News4’s Aimee Cho reports on the eight reforms the Fredericksburg Police Department has put in place to cut down on the department’s use of force.

A 176-year-old slave auction block has been removed from a Virginia city’s downtown.

Medical professionals in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, area looked up into the sky Wednesday and were met with gratitude as five vintage, World War II-era airplanes performed a synchronized flyover in their honor. The pilots flew in a five-ship formation They were all Virginia residents and members of the Mid-Atlantic Stearman Association, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said. The performances...

As hospitals prepare for the future spread of coronavirus, they are expanding the size of their emergency rooms. One hospital in Fredericksburg doing it in their parking garage.

A judge in Virginia has hit the pause button on a city’s plans to remove a 175-year-old slave auction block from a city’s downtown street corner

A man without a pilot’s license faces felony charges for flying a small plane in Fredericksburg, Virginia, federal officials say. Ryan Guy Parker is accused of flying out of Shannon Airport in September 2018, court documents filed earlier this month say. Witnesses said Parker flew an unsafe “bucket of bolts.” At one point, he passed over large tanks containing 18,000…

A restaurant is suing to stop the removal of a slave auction block from a street corner in Virginia because the eatery fears it will see a decline in tourists. The Freelance-Star reported Thursday that the weathered stone is colloquially known as the “slave auction block” in a historic section of Fredericksburg. It’s long been a source of controversy....