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The bare details of a murder in Loudoun County, Virginia back in 1973 have come into a vivid three dimensions. A forensic artist has created a likeness of the victim in hopes it will help identify her. She’s no longer an abstract. She looks like she’s about to speak. Blood-stained scraps of fabric from the […]
Residents in Arlington’s Green Valley neighborhood are on edge again after two people were shot in less than 24 hours over the weekend. A man was shot before 3 a.m. Saturday after being confronted by five people. Then about 10 p.m. the same day, a juvenile was shot during a confrontation with two people. Both victims are […]
A Fairfax County Judge granted a temporary injunction Friday to allow the Hayfield Secondary School football team to participate in the postseason and compete in the playoffs. The Virginia High School League issued a two-year postseason ban on the football team. The school was under scrutiny following allegations of improper recruiting. The injunction means the […]
What to Know It’s Tuesday, Nov. 5 — Election Day. In the D.C. area, that means watch parties and heightened security. Streets near Howard University are shut down for Kamala Harris’ election night watch party. Here’s a full list of street closures. Meanwhile, Election Day freebies around the DMV include discounted rides to the polls, […]
After Virginia State Police shot and killed a driver on I-95 in Northern Virginia late Wednesday, two passengers who were riding with the man face charges. State police released new details Friday on the deadly police shooting, which they say followed a carjacking, a police chase and a crash with the suspect that made a […]
A Stafford, Virginia, man learned Thursday that his name has been purged from the state’s voter rolls. State officials say the purge is aimed at removing suspected noncitizens from the rolls, but Zecarias Berhe said he’s been voting since he became a naturalized U.S. citizen decades ago. “I was shocked to hear that,” Berhe said. […]
An au pair accused in a double homicide in Northern Virginia will take a plea deal in the case, according to a commonwealth’s attorney spokesperson. Juliana Peres Magalhaes and Brendan Banfield, the father of the family for whom she worked, are accused of working together to kill Banfield’s wife, Christine Banfield, and a stranger, Joseph […]
In the blink of an eye Sunday night, an SUV driver went flying off I-66 in Fairfax County, crashed through a fence and straight into a retention pond. The vehicle began sinking in the dark water, and two Virginia State troopers arrived as water was filling the compartment of the vehicle. Video from a highway […]
The candidates for Virginia’s open 10th congressional district seat have stark differences, including on hot button topics like abortion and immigration. Democrat Suhas Subramanyam and Republican Mike Clancy, who are running for Democratic U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s open seat, have very different views of how the country is doing right now. A tech executive and […]
Disturbing police body camera video shows a Virginia woman charging a Fairfax County police officer with a knife moments before he shot and killed her. Just after 10 a.m. Sept. 16, a 14-year veteran knocked on 33-year-old Sydney Wilson’s apartment door to perform a welfare check in Reston. As the officer identified himself, Wilson slammed […]