A farmer in Stafford County, Virginia, received an unwelcome Valentine’s Day gift when authorities say he discovered a man trying to steal goats from his property.

A Virginia woman who posed as a psychologist and treated dozens of children was convicted Wednesday in Stafford County. Sharonda Avery entered pleas to nine felony counts and could serve decades in prison. She dodged News4’s cameras and offered silence in response to questions angry parents want answered. “Why did you present yourself as a psychologist when you never...

A Virginia woman who claimed to be a psychologist though she never graduated from college entered pleas to nine felony counts Wednesday. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A 17-year-old was found guilty Wednesday of killing a man outside a convenience store in Stafford County, Virginia, last summer. Caine Davis was found guilty on charges of first-degree murder in the July 3 death of 20-year-old Troy Barnett. He was also found guilty of aggravated malicious wounding for nearly killing an 18-year-old woman who was with Barnett. Prosecutors said…

A Virginia woman accused of abducting her four children in June was arrested Wednesday morning in Indiana, according to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. Stafford County detectives and members of the U.S. Marshals Service found 34-year-old Melody Bannister; her three daughters, ages 13, 12 and 11; and her 7-year-old son about 2:30 a.m. in a car at a gas station…

Deputies and U.S. marshals arrested a Virginia woman in Indiana and charged her with abducting her four children. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder spoke with the father.

A former Virginia high school track coach was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for attempting to lure students into prostitution. Delvin Jackson, who coached track at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford County, was found guilty last year on multiple counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor and soliciting prostitution. Jackson told students they could make money…

Virginia authorities say a black man seen wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood at a Virginia shopping center told sheriff’s deputies he was performing a social experiment.

One of three teens charged in connection to the killing of a Stafford County man testified against the accused gunman. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder has the details. (Courtroom sketches by Bill Hennessy)

The killing of a man outside a convenience store in Stafford County, Virginia, last summer was over marijuana, according to the testimony Tuesday of one of the three teenagers charged. Wearing shackles around his ankles, Chris Walters took the stand to testify against Caine Davis, who is accused of pulling the trigger. Walters testified that on July 3, he, Davis…

A Stafford, Virginia, man was arrested by a Stafford County sheriff’s deputy early Thursday morning when he was discovered passed out in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Fredericksburg with an 8-year-old sleeping in the backseat.

A young cadet visiting home for Thanksgiving died when his SUV hit a tree in Stafford County, Virginia, over the weekend. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

Several major school systems in the D.C. area closed schools Wednesday after light snow left many roads slick.

The General Assembly’s self-described socialist member is sponsoring legislation to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which says employees can’t be forced to join a labor union.

What would you do if you found $6,000 cash? A 20-year-old worker at a pizza place in Stafford County, Virginia, recently did the right thing and called authorities.

A new I-95 overpass in Virginia will have drivers merge left through an X-shaped intersection, switching sides with opposing traffic, in order to continue straight.

An intersection that will have drivers head to the left, not the right, will open in Stafford County, Virginia, in December. Here’s a Virginia Department of Transportation video on how these “diverging diamond interchanges” work.

Storm Team4 is tracking nice weather for Thursday and Friday ahead of a chance for showers and rain this weekend.

The killer of Pamela Butler, a Washington, D.C., federal worker who disappeared before Valentine’s Day in 2009, has been charged in the 1989 death of his wife.

If you parked your jet ski in a commuter lot space in Northern Virginia, you may want to move it soon. Authorities say they’re cracking down on parking spot squatters.