Prince William County police

Prince William County police officers fatally shot a 79-year-old Dumfries man, who was allegedly armed, near his front door Thursday after his wife reported he was having a mental health crisis, police said.

Republicans in Prince William County, Virginia, are trying to stop the discussion about possibly cutting police to funding to help fund other social services. “This is a big deal,” Prince William County Supervisor Pete Candland (R) said. “This is something we need to be concerned about.” The county is building a comprehensive plan to identify what’s most important over...

Prince William County is considering reallocating budget money away from the police department to other social services. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains.

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham has been hired as the new chief of police in Prince William County, Virginia, the board of county supervisors announced Tuesday. The hiring follows a nationwide search, the board of supervisors said. The county received 50 applications. Newsham is expected to start Feb. 1. He expects to stay with D.C. police through the inauguration…

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham is leaving the District to head up the Prince William County Police Department. News4’s Mark Segraves takes a look at why the chief is leaving and what happens next.

Reaction is coming in from D.C.’s top leaders after news that the city’s top cop is leaving to lead the police department in Prince William County, Virginia. News4’s Shomari Stone, Mark Segraves and Drew Wilder have team coverage.

Prince William County police are asking the public for help in a sexual assault investigation. A 55-year-old woman reported the attack in Woodbridge, Virginia on May 14. Police said they responded to the 3200 block of Golansky Blvd. to investigate the report from the victim. She told police she was lying in her tent in the woods near that location…

A pedestrian was struck and killed by two vehicles Wednesday morning in Manassas, Virginia, and neither vehicle stayed at the scene. The pedestrian, 62-year-old Alberto Anthony Marino of Bristow, was struck in the area of Sudley Road and Balls Ford Road early in the morning. First responders reached the scene at 5 a.m., and Marino was taken to a hospital…

A 13-year-old boy is charged with sexual battery after a 12-year-old girl said he forced her to “engage in inappropriate contact” on a school bus in Virginia. The boy is accused of having contact with the girl on a Prince William County Public Schools bus at about 7:55 a.m. on Jan. 30, county police said in a statement Wednesday. The…

Prince William County police found a 21-year-old woman in the trunk of a sedan on a tree-lined access road behind a mobile home park that leads to a landfill off I-95 in Dumfries, Virginia Thursday. Police say the woman was forced into the trunk by 27-year-old Abubakar Bundu, the father of her one-year-old son, who was also in the car.

A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down.

A Virginia family said they are afraid to be inside their own home after it was riddled with bullets early Monday.

A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death in a Northern Virginia neighborhood late Tuesday, and a 19-year-old woman is charged with the crime.

A Northern Virginia gymnastics coach has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing an underage athlete more than a decade ago.

“I just kept on praying for him,” said a neighbor.

A man attacked his 8-year-old daughter and her mother with a knife in Woodbridge, Virginia, on Friday night, police say.

A beloved cafeteria worker at a Virginia middle school was struck and killed by a car driven by a teen as she walked to work Friday.

A beloved cafeteria worker at a Virginia middle school was struck and killed by a car Friday. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A pedestrian died Friday in Woodbridge, Virginia, after she was hit before dawn by a car driven by a 16-year-old girl, police say.