Authorities are trying to identify a body found Saturday morning in the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg.
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Four people have been arrested following a lengthy, multi-jurisdictional drug investigation by the Blue Ridge Narcotics and Gang Task Force and Prince William County Police Department Street Crimes Unit.
Three people were killed and two others injured in a Tuesday night crash in Clarke County.
A Maryland woman is facing felony charges following a 34-hour barricade that ended early Thursday morning at Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive in Fairfax County.
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Fairfax County police announced just after midnight on Thursday that they had taken the woman who barricaded herself while armed in her car on Route 1 in Alexandria, Virginia, into custody.
A 33-year-old man wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a woman who fell asleep during a gathering in Woodbridge earlier this month turned himself in Tuesday.
Police are investigating two shootings and two stabbings over the weekend in Prince William County.
A wildfire burning over 5,000 acres near the Outer Banks of North Carolina is likely to blame for a smoky haze and smell around the D.C. area today.
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A Fairfax County jury on Monday sentenced a woman to 78 years in prison for the shooting and killing of her two daughters at their McLean home in 2018.
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The Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at a local property after the department received several reports of horses and other animals not being sufficiently cared for, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
A man and woman are in custody after Fairfax County police say they robbed a grocery store at gunpoint then led police on a chase -- with their child in the car.
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A man was arrested in Warrenton early Friday on an outstanding warrant for murder related to a Sunday homicide in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A Brentsville District High School student was injured Thursday morning reportedly jumping from a roof at the school in Nokesville — an incident witnessed by several other students.
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Officials in Fairfax County released body camera footage Thursday showing officers shooting an unarmed man near Tysons Corner Center last month.
Fairfax County police say two people were found dead Wednesday afternoon on a Reston trail in an apparent murder-suicide.
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The Fairfax County Office of the Independent Police Auditor recently published its annual report, which showed an increase in police shootings but a decrease in use-of-force complaints last year. The report comes as the police department agreed to have a research forum examine police shootin…
Update, 8 a.m., Wednesday: The two girls have been found safe and their biological mother is in custody, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office.
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