A northern Virginia police officer has been fired after fatally shooting a shoplifting suspect last month following a foot chase at a busy shopping mall. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis announced the dismissal Thursday at a press conference in which he also released body camera foota…
Stacker compiled a list of highways with the most fatal crashes in Virginia using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System.
An Albemarle County Public Schools assistant principal is no longer with the school division after he was charged with allowing an intoxicated student to drive other students home.
A female student objected to a transgender girl using girls' bathrooms, and requested the school board relabel all restrooms with ‘Penis’ and ‘Vagina.’ Her remarks wound up on social media. Later, the transgender girl reported being threatened by other students.
Six people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway and struck construction workers.
The Jewish roots of a disputed statue add nuance to the debate.
A look at where floods and flash flooding have occurred in Virginia from 2013 to 2022, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Storm Events Database.
The lawyer for the family of a Virginia man fatally shot by police after he allegedly stole a pair of sunglasses called the death “an execution.” Timothy McCree Johnson's family and their lawyer viewed body camera video of the shooting for the first time Wednesday. The Fairfax County Police Department shared the footage with them nearly a month after two officers ran after Johnson and then shot him outside one of the busiest malls in northern Virginia. Attorney Carl Crews said nothing in the video shows anything to explain officers' justification for opening fire. Police plan to release the video to the public Thursday. No criminal charges have yet been filed.
Oswalt, a William & Mary alumnus who was born in Portsmouth, and Henry Wolf, former William & Mary rector and retired chief financial officer of Norfolk Southern, will receive honorary degrees at the ceremony.
Gerald Lackey was vice president of business optimization at roofing manufacturer GAF.
If he were to declare his candidacy, Pence said, he couldn’t think of a better place to do it than the home of Washington and Lee University's Mock Convention.
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He also names Goochland Schools Superintendent Jeremy Raley as chief of staff for the Virginia Department of Education and appoints Dale Sturdifen, a Mecklenburg County School Board member for 11 years, to the state Board of Education.
A Virginia man who assaulted police with a stolen baton and used a flashing strobe light to disorient officers trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison.
William Riley Stump admitted to harvesting black walnut trees on federal property.
Two Newport News inmates tunneled through their jail cell’s wall and escaped Monday afternoon, law enforcement officials said, only to be found hours later at an IHOP restaurant in Hampton.
Jillian Balow will receive $266,213 in 24 semi-monthly payments, plus funds for health insurance and unused vacation time.
Spring has officially arrived, but the Outer Banks is still seeing some of its cutest wintertime visitors.
Under one new law a person could get up to a year in jail for making a prank emergency call that draws police.
Members of the immediate response team traveled to Kern County, California, where they plan to stay for 10 days.
A Statesville, N.C., man died Saturday afternoon after flipping a lawn mower into a pond.
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"We think of ourselves as ally No. 1," she tells students at VCU.
Abby Zwerner, the first grade teacher shot in January by her student at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, made her first public appearance Monday in an interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC Nightly News.
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Henrico County police on Monday said the person wounded during a shootout with officers Sunday night in the West End has died.
ClickUp compiled a list of counties with the most employees working from home in Virginia using Census Bureau data.
A ninth state senator, John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, has decided not to seek reelection, setting the stage for a turnover of at least 25% in the upper chamber of the General Assembly.
The historical image of James Fort that is used as a logo for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project and Historic Jamestowne may be leading archaeologists to John Smith’s long-lost town.
He says Virginia's behavioral health system is "overwhelmed with in-crisis moments," while "lacking in pre-crisis services."
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