An assistant principal in Northern Virginia was charged with stealing from a Target. News4’s Drew Wilder spoke with students and parents about the allegations.

For businesses in Quantico, tensions between the U.S. and Iran are hitting their bottom line. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

A company that sells popular face masks is taking one product off shelves. A Virginia family says it burned the face of a 9-year-old. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

A Northern Virginia physician has been charged with handing out illegitimate prescriptions for amphetamines. Forty-eight-year-old Gurpreet Bajwa of Oakton was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal court in Alexandria with illegal distribution of Adderall. He was ordered to be held pending a detention hearing scheduled for Friday. Undercover officers visited Bajwa’s office in Fairfax in 2018 and obtained Adderall prescriptions…

Parents in Virginia say their underage daughters were sexually exploited online but little is being done about it. Stephanie Levenson of Winchester said a boy took pictures from her high school daughter’s private social media and posted them in a lewd thread on the website Reddit. “These are children being exploited sexually for adults’ pleasure,” she said. “Something needs...

Parents in Northern Virginia say their underage daughters were sexually exploited online but little is being done about it. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder spoke to parents of one of the girls.

The morning after snow blanketed the D.C. area, residents were dealing with an overnight refreeze.

A Northern Virginia family is opening up about a deadly New Year’s Eve shooting that killed one brother and wounded another. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Fairfax County’s new commonwealth’s attorney made a big impact on his first day by declining to prosecute simple marijuana possession. The punishment for a simple marijuana possession charge — possession of anything less than half an ounce — in Virginia is 30 days in jail and a $500 fine, but prosecutors in Fairfax County are asking judges to dismiss every such…

The new commonwealth’s attorney in Fairfax County is asking judges to drop all charges of simple marijuana possession. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder was in the courtroom today when a veteran judge said he’s never seen anything like this.

A Virginia woman won the top prize in a lottery game after accidentally filling in a different number on her ticket than she’d intended.

A Maryland man has died after a construction accident in Northern Virginia.

A rescue dog alerted its owner to a fire at a Virginia town house early Sunday. Susan Hogan reports.

When Christmas lights caused a Virginia town house to catch fire, a rescue dog alerted the resident before the smoke alarms could. The front of the town house in the 6600 block of Briarleigh Way in the Kingstowne section of Fairfax County caught fire before 2 a.m. Sunday, according to Fairfax County Fire and Rescue. One of Jan Bickhart’s dogs,…

At George Mason University, an associate professor is building a cell phone game to help people navigate debates about Climate Change. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

The holidays came early for some Virginia families struggling to pay school lunch debt. Three Virginia pastors used more than $17,000 from their church’s budget to pay off meal debt at two local school systems. “It seemed like a good idea, (but) we didn’t know if there was a need because no one ever seems to talk about this,”...

A 7-year-old Virginia girl who spent most of the past year in cancer treatment returned to the hospital Monday bearing gifts for other patients. Poppy Sellier spent last Christmas fighting leukemia on the 10th floor of Inova Children’s Hospital — the oncology unit. In August, she became a cancer survivor. Poppy returned to the 10th floor hauling a wagon full…

A 7-year-old Fairfax County girl spent most of the last year in cancer treatment, so you’d think the hospital is the last place she’d want to be. But Northern Virginia Reporter Drew Wilder shows us why she couldn’t wait to go back Monday and how she’s been planning it for months.

The ground has been broken on the future Potomac Yard Metro Station in Alexandria. Officials say it’s one of the largest infrastructure projects in the region. The station will add a new stop on the Blue and Yellow lines, between Reagan National Airport and Braddock Road. The Potomac Yard Metro station is expected to draw up to 12,000 riders a…

The official groundbreaking for the new Potomac Yard Metro station in Alexandria is scheduled for Thursday, but News4’s Adam Tuss got a sneak peak of the long-awaited project.