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There are many unanswered questions in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Alexandria man. Investigators say he was killed by an off-duty Arlington County Sheriff's Deputy. More>>
Jennifer Dibble is still in disbelief that she is home safe and sound in Virginia after her experience in Oklahoma. Her family touched down at Reagan National Airport Tuesday night. They had been visiting friends in the city of Moore, Okla.
FBI Director Robert Mueller has praised two agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast for their "true and unerring valor." More>>
A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is being sued by American International Group Inc. over his refusal to answer questions from insurance investigators. More>>
Life turned upside down for another family back in February. We are hearing for the first time from the wife of a police officer who was shot in the head. More>>
A toddler in Fairfax County was caught in the middle of an armed robbery Friday night. More>>
A 42-year-old Sterling mother of two has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of her police officer husband inside their home Friday night. More>>
A cab driver accused in the shooting of an Alexandria police officer in February has been indicted by a grand jury. More>>
Virginia Democrats are framing the new statewide ticket the Republican Right nominated Saturday as a referendum on the GOP's surprise lieutenant governor nominee, firebrand Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson. More>>
Two members of the FBIs ultra-elite Hostage Rescue Team were killed Friday during a training accident involving a helicopter off the coast of Virginia Beach.
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Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday. More>>
A Loudoun County woman is behind bars tonight, accused of murder in the shooting death of her husband. More>>
The Virginia Republican Party has now formally nominated state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to run for the office of governor. More>>
Virginia's conservative activist attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, has been nominated by acclamation for governor at a statewide Republican convention dominated for the first time by the tea party. More>>
A Prince William County man says he was suspected by Walmart security of possibly kidnapping his three young daughters -- all because they aren't the same race. Joseph and his wife Keana are an interracial couple. They have been married for nearly 10 years and have three daughters. More>>
The southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Stafford County have reopened following a crash that stopped traffic until late Friday morning. More>>
Metro says it will close a total of five stations on the green and orange lines for weekend work. More>>
The "John Doe" child pornography suspect sought by federal authorities was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a tip from the public was called in to the ICE tip line. More>>
Call Melvyn Wilson is the king of the scratch-off ticket. The Woodbridge man recently won his fourth lottery prize of at least five figures, putting his total scratch-off winnings at more than $2 million.
An affiliate group associated with Planned Parenthood has now formally endorsed the candidacy of Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for the office of governor of Virginia. The presumed Republican nominee, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, has already been endorsed by the pro-life group the Susan B. Anthony List. More>>
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has recused his office from representing Gov. Bob McDonnell in matters related to theft charges against the Executive Mansion's former chef and hired a team of five private lawyers. More>>
A grand jury says the fatal shooting of a suspect by a Chesterfield County police officer was justified.Chesterfield County police announced the grand jury's findings Wednesday. More>>
Wednesday has gotten off to a shaky start for some residents in Louisa County.
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The president of Virginia Tech announced his retirement Tuesday, satisfied he had elevated the university's reputation and acknowledging that the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history on his campus would be a part of his legacy. More>>
The politically charged embezzlement case against a former Virginia Executive Mansion chef is back before a Richmond judge. More>>
Officers from around the country, family members and friends paid homage Monday night to those who last year paid the ultimate price. The 25th Annual Candlelight Vigil took place at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC.
The Virginia woman whose actions led to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev being buried about 30 miles north of her Richmond home said the angry backlash from local officials, some cemetery neighbors and online critics has been unpleasant, but she has no regrets. More>>
It's a ranking Loudoun County could do without, worst place in the state of Virginia for Lyme disease. More>>
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in central Virginia, infuriating some members of the area's Islamic community who say they weren't consulted and flooring at least one neighbor who said she didn't even know she lived near a burial ground. More>>
Britain's Prince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the grave of a British World War II hero buried far from home. More>>
The Air Force officer who used to run that service’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Unit will be tried on charges of sexual battery of a woman in July. More>>
A giant sinkhole has caused delays along a portion of road in Reston.
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A large house fire in the Franconia-Springfield area has kept firefighters busy Wednesday morning.
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A freight train carrying highly flammable ethanol derailed in Columbus, Ohio not quite a year ago. Residents of Alexandria's West End neighborhood wonder if that could happen near them. Norfolk Southern Corporation, which operates an ethanol transloading facility near the Van Dorn Metro, has applied for a permit to expand its operation.
It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay. More>>
An Air Force officer who led the branch's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit has been charged with groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, authorities said Monday. More>>
Many little girls dream of being a princess, and for one local young lady, that dream came true Friday evening. More>>
Police are investigating an incident where two people were found critically injured in a van in Alexandria. More>>
Some people go to the prom in a limo. Some bring their own set of wheels. Wheelchairs rolled down the red carpet at Waterford reception hall in Springfield Friday.
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Human trafficking in our backyard. That was the title of a town hall meeting in McLean, Va., Friday hosted by northern Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf. More>>
A Manassas woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating federal firearms laws after buying and selling 31 handguns over a two-week span without a license. More>>
Former Culpeper Police Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright, convicted in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed 54-year-old woman, was sentenced to three years in prison.
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There are new details Thursday about the case of the two women who were rescued Tuesday night from the Saudi Arabian diplomatic compound on Orris Street in McLean. More>>
Immigration officials have removed two domestic workers from a northern Virginia home owned by the government of Saudi Arabia as part of an investigation into a report of human trafficking. More>>
Fairfax County will be largely spared from this month's emergence of a brood of red-eyed, 17-year cicadas. More>>
Dominion Power crews were out early Thursday morning on the streets of Old Town Alexandria.
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Long before he was a Marine, Josh Himan loved the gym. "Ever since I was 12, 13, I started lifting weights,” says Himan. “The gym has always been my sanctuary.” He served as a machine gunner in Afghanistan. In 2009, his Humvee ran over an improvised explosive device. He is paralyzed from the chest down.
A local cab driver says he was assaulted and insulted by a passenger he picked up in Fairfax County. The driver says he was taking the man home from a country club when it all started and the incident was caught on cell phone video.
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Northbound lanes of Interstate 95, just south of Exit 148 near Quantico in Stafford County, are closed after a multi-vehicle crash.
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Two law enforcement officials who died in the line of duty last year have been honored in Washington. More>>
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) stated flatly Tuesday that Star Scientific got "no special benefits" during his term as governor. The CEO of that Virginia-based company has lavished gifts on McDonnell family members, and, under current Virginia law, those gifts did not have to be disclosed.
The FBI has begun examining the relationship between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen and the chief executive of a nutritional supplements manufacturer that is the subject of a federal investigation. More>>
The next big disaster could strike anywhere, anytime and a growing number of people are getting prepared. They are the preppers next door stocking up on food, supplies and all the tools needed to survive. More>>
The Defense Department says one of four Air Force members killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan was a pilot from northern Virginia. More>>
A Virginia man charged with shooting a security guard inside the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group is scheduled to be sentenced this summer. More>>
An Army helicopter pilot from northern Virginia is one of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan by enemy fire. More>>
Opening a restaurant is a ton of work. There are many decisions -- the decor, the menu.For example, Mike Anderson will have 24 different types of sake at his new place.Anderson can also tell you what they will not have -- crying kids.The Sushi Bar in Del Ray is expected to open in mid-May. Only people age 18 and older will be allowed in."We love kids. Just not at the sushi bar," says Anderson.He and his business partner, Bill Blackburn, say the restaurant on Mount Vernon Avenue should be a pl... More>>
Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has disclosed several additional gifts, including flights and vacation lodgings worth thousands of dollars, that he says he overlooked in his required disclosure forms. More>>
The case of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his former girlfriend will be heard by the state Court of Appeals. More>>
Students have returned to a Loudoun County school building after being temporally evacuated due to a suspicious package.
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U.S. Marshals are looking for a Virginia man who skipped out on his sentencing earlier this month after pleading guilty to scamming a D.C. woman out of tens of thousands of dollars. More>>
Two months after he was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his head, Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy returned to police headquarters Thursday. More>>
Three students have died unexpectedly at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax this year. The most recent was 17-year-old junior Ethan Griffith, who died Tuesday evening. More>>
When Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy came home from the hospital Tuesday, he had a little help from his friends. He came home to hugs from his family and, also, a big surprise. More>>
Although federal transit planners have initially said "no" to funding a proposed streetcar line in Arlington, local planning on the project continues. More>>
Alexandria, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., are cities for readers, if not always the kinds of books your parents wanted you to read.
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Two former Culpeper County school employees are charged with assaulting a 5-year-old autistic boy on a school bus. More>>
A judge has certified murder charges to a grand jury against a man accused of drowning his 15-month-old son to collect on a life insurance policy. More>>
Now that we know who authorities believe were responsible for the horrific bombings and violent shootouts, the focus turns to: Why? It's a question many who knew the Tsarnaev brothers are having a difficult time with. A former neighbor and family friend tells FOX 5 that as a former resident of the Boston area, she was devastated to learn about the marathon bombing. More>>
Virginia State Police say a small plane crashed in the Williamsburg area. James City County District Fire Chief Bob Ryalls tells media outlets that two people were killed in Friday's crash. He said a family pet was killed too.
Three teenage boys from West Springfield High School went to Juvenile Court Thursday facing serious felony charges for participating in the practice of “sexting.” More>>
Marine Corps Major Fred Glencamp of Woodbridge, Va., wasn't feeling well and was off his pace at the Boston Marathon. He says it was a good thing because if he had been running at his normal speed, he would have been near the finish line when the explosions went off. More>>
A private company contracted by NASA to make supply runs to the International Space Station scrubbed a Wednesday test launch of an unmanned rocket, saying an important data cord linked to the rocket's second stage detached too soon. More>>
Fairfax County Police say a missing 5-year-old Fairfax County boy has been located in Las Vegas along with his mother, who was wanted for felony parental abduction. More>>
Avid runners who were not in Boston for the marathon Monday are coming together in our area to show their support for the victims of the bombings. More>>
It was a scary stick-up in a location where you would least expect it. The Loudoun County’s Sheriff Office says four suspects broke into a house on Loyalty Road in the Taylorstown area around 10 a.m. brandishing a weapon. More>>
Some of the local participants in the Boston Marathon are still coming back to the Washington D.C. area. The Walls family of Arlington, Va., came back on a midday flight. They took pictures and video of the race, the bombing, and the panic among spectators, and they shared those pictures and video with local reporters.
Fairfax County Police say detectives have confirmed a missing 5-year-old Fairfax County boy was seen at a Las Vegas airport with his mother, who has a felony warrant for her arrest for parental abduction. More>>
About 70 people gathered in Richmond for a ceremony marking the sixth anniversary of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech.Joe Samaha's daughter Reema was one of the 32 people killed. He said Tuesday that the long-term solutions to campus violence include better mental health treatment and helping troubled kids. Samaha is president of the Virginia Tech Family Outreach Foundation, which was formed after the 2007 shooting rampage to promote campus safety.Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling also addressed the cr... More>>
There are new developments in the case of a 5-year-old Fairfax County boy who has been missing for eight days. More>>
Virginia Congressman Jim Moran gathered with community members outside of city hall in Alexandria. More>>
Teenagers attending a leadership conference, Saturday, at Gar-Field High School got a sobering reminder about the dangers of texting while driving. More>>
A preoccupied Metro-rail passenger fell off a platform, Thursday evening, just as a train was pulling into the station. Two "Good Samaritans" pulled the dazed man to safety, seconds before the train roared past. Grainy surveillance video captured the incident.
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Regulations that abortion-rights supporters say would put most of Virginia's 20 clinics out of business received final approval Friday from a state board dominated by appointees of anti-abortion Gov. Bob McDonnell. More>>
More details are emerging on the use of deadly force by two deputies with the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office. More>>
In an effort to crack down on texting while driving, Virginia upped its fine from $20 to $125 and made it so officers do not need another reason to stop drivers they see texting. More>>
A new ranking of the most generous cities in online donations shows Seattle residents give the most money to charity, followed by three cities in the Washington, D.C., region. More>>
A judge has ordered a man charged with killing a Virginia State Police trooper to undergo an evaluation. More>>
The cab driver accused of shooting an Alexandria police officer will remain in jail until at least a grand jury hears the case. In a preliminary hearing in Alexandria circuit court a judge found probable cause to hold Kashif Bashir.
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The sentencing of the former policeman who shot to death an unarmed woman in the town of Culpeper, Va., in 2012 was abruptly postponed Wednesday. More>>
Police say a 37-year-old man has been taken to the hospital after a police-involved shooting in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County. More>>
Preliminary autopsy results show the baby discovered floating in a pond Sunday morning in Sterling, Va., weighed seven pounds, was 1.8 feet long, appeared to be a full-term white or Hispanic female and may not have survived the birth. More>>
A little dog living on its own in Fairfax County was the victor in a two-year-old game of hide-and-seek until this past Saturday when it all came to an end. "Biscuit" finally met his match and came in from the cold when he was surrounded and caught by animal control.
Months before Newtown - an artist was working on a project about guns. That project has rolled into our area. It is a yellow school bus, shot up with about 6000 rounds of ammunition.
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A Navy ship named in honor of the victims and first responders of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon has joined the fleet.
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The Navy’s newest warship, the U.S.S. Arlington, will be formally commissioned, Saturday. It and two other Navy ships, the New York and the Sommerset, were named to commemorate the sacrifices made by victims and first responders during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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A former elementary school teacher has been convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography. More>>
Last June, 7-year-old Michael Murdock found out he had a brain tumor. This fall, their school counselor suggested they write a book. More>>
A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with raping a woman who was walking through the teen's Manassas neighborhood last Thursday night. More>>
Authorities seized a plastic gas can from the home of a former firefighter who confessed to setting the most recent of a string of arsons on Virginia's Eastern Shore with his girlfriend, according to court documents released Wednesday. More>>
A former volunteer firefighter and his girlfriend were arrested Tuesday and are suspected of setting a majority of the 70 arsons on Virginia's Eastern Shore over the past five months. More>>
Stafford County Animal Control officers are looking for six stray cats that possibly were exposed to one that had rabies. More>>
There is a new major clue in the hunt for a serial groper in the Springfield area. Police have released surveillance video of a possible suspect in an attack last Thursday. More>>
John Blue's dad taught him to use a metal detector when he was just a kid. Years ago, he had gotten permission to search a construction site in Fredericksburg, Va. The detector beeped and he found a small ring worn as identification during the Civil War.
Police are searching for a man who raped a woman Thursday night in Manassas. It happened in a wooded area near an apartment complex on Vermont Place.
Fairfax County Police are investigating a groping incident that occurred Thursday afternoon and is believed to possibly be the 24th incident in a series of assaults of women in the Springfield area. More>>
It's another battle in the highly charged debate over abortion. This time, Virginia's governor has submitted an amendment to a bill before the Virginia General Assembly. It would not allow health insurance providers to pay for abortion coverage under the new health insurance exchanges being required under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
An American Airlines plane heading to Dallas from Reagan National Airport had to make an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport Wednesday. More>>
Two Virginia students accused of putting hand sanitizer in their teacher's drinks over the course of two or three months are facing felony charges. More>>
Fairfax County Police have released surveillance video of a robbery of a woman by a suspect armed with a shotgun. More>>
Arlington County Police say a 31-year-old Arlington man has been arrested and charged with malicious wounding of his roommate after waking up to find male genitalia had been drawn on his face with permanent marker. More>>
A brand new bus stop in Arlington has people talking. The popular stop has been under construction for the past year and a half. But it's the improvement price tag that is proving unpopular. FOX 5 Consumer Reporter Laura Evans has more on this story. More>>
Human remains found in Stafford County are heading to the medical examiner's office in Richmond. More>>
A Marine who worked at a rigorous school that tests Marines who want to become officers fatally shot two of his colleagues before killing himself in a barracks dorm room. More>>
It sounds like a car and moves like a car, but this thing used to fly. It's a 1956 Cessna 310 put on a 1987 Toyota van chassis.
Three northern Virginia teenagers who consider themselves merry pranksters with a popular YouTube channel are facing criminal charges for what they allegedly did in their most viewed video of "gallon smashing." More>>
Police say a homeowner fired a warning shot before fatally shooting a 16-year-old neighbor who drunkenly entered the wrong home by mistake. More>>
It's the first step toward softening Fairfax County's Zero Tolerance policy for public school kids. It is a debate inspired, in part, by the suicide two years ago of 15-year-old Woodson High School sophomore Nick Stuban, who sank into a depression after being suspended and then forced to switch schools after getting caught with a legal, synthetic type of marijuana.
A Stafford County man is behind bars and charged with multiple methamphetamine offenses. But what has his neighbors in the White Oak area in an uproar is the digging going on in his property. More>>
Arlington County Police say four masked men entered a Pentagon City jewelry store, smashed a glass display case with a hammer and made off with 23 Rolex watches worth more than $600,000. More>>
The parents of a Sterling, Va. teenager who was shot to death as an apparent intruder "forgive" the neighbor who pulled the trigger. More>>
A federal appeals court in Virginia is set to consider whether prisoners have a constitutional right to visitation.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond hears oral arguments in the South Carolina case Tuesday.Jerome Williams' visitation privileges were suspended for two years based on the suspicion that a visitor passed contraband to him. No contraband was found, and Williams was not charged with a disciplinary violation. The warden of Evans Correctional Ins... More>>
Caleb Gordley The family of a Loudoun county teen who was killed says he didn't mean to break into his neighbor's house. Sixteen-year old Caleb Gordley's neighbor shot and killed him because he thought the teen was an intruder.
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Caleb GordleyThe Loudoun County Sheriff's office has identified an intruder shot and killed by a homeowner in Sterling. More>>
In a cramped alley in D.C., just a few hours before his math quiz, 17-year-old Ben Pavich is delivering hope. It's a serving of garden vegetable soup in a stomach that has been aching for something to fill it. Ben and some fellow students at Dominion High School in Sterling decided to a non-profit called Generosity Feeds. More>>
A Connecticut man has received two more life sentences for the 2001 kidnapping and rape of a Leesburg woman that was one of many rapes linked to a man identified by authorities as the "East Coast Rapist." More>>
Loudoun County authorities say three children were injured after they were struck by a car driven by a teenage driver in Ashburn. More>>
Authorities say a 15-year-old student driver struck three girls, ages 7 to 11, in Ashburn Thursday evening. More>>
Manassas City Police have released a composite sketch of a possible suspect who left a series of 20 threatening notes at the front doors of homes in Weems neighborhood area of Manassas. More>>
The news at MedStar Washington Hospital Center was all good. Doctors and Alexandria's Police Chief held a news conference Thursday to inform the public that motorcycle patrol officer Peter Laboy is recovering nicely. More>>
Safety investigators are reviewing a near-collision between an oncoming Metro train and two track workers last month. More>>
The serial groper who has been preying on women in the Springfield area of Fairfax County has struck again. Police say a 32-year-old woman putting luggage into her car is his 22nd victim.
In today's high tech warfare, there's one thing that hasn't changed. During combat, you need boots on the ground. At Marine Corps Base Quantico just outside Washington, troops are being trained for the frontlines. More>>
Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo says in a newspaper interview that seeing the reaction of a victim's husband made him feel like "scum." More>>
Fairfax County Police say a man in his 60s has been killed after a large tree fell on a car in Great Falls, Va. Tuesday. More>>
The man who was crushed around 6:30 Tuesday evening, when the tree came down on his car on Georgetown Pike, has now been identified as 64-year-old Albert Carl Roeth III. More>>
Sarah Nementz-Itobi (and her older children) were shocked to learn that a huge, distressed tree on VDOT's right-of-way fell Tuesday evening in Great Falls, killing a passing motorist. More>>
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