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Serial burglars in Northern Virginia pretended to deliver flowers and then broke into homes, authorities say. The burglaries in Great Falls, McLean, Oakton and Reston began a few days after Christmas, Fairfax County police said Wednesday. In four of the crimes, a woman carrying a bouquet of flowers walked up to the door of a home and knocked. When no…

Virginia officials and the owner of the Washington Wizards and Capitals announced a plan Wednesday to partner on a deal that would send the teams across the Potomac River to play in Alexandria instead of D.C. The deal would transform a growing Northern Virginia neighborhood and send shockwaves through downtown D.C, which is accustomed to hosting tens of thousands of...

When Tom Peterson’s wife urged him to run, the filing deadline had passed, so he ran against the six-term incumbent mayor off the ballot with just 10 yard signs.

Video played in court shows the encounter between a YouTube prankster and the food delivery driver who shot him inside a Virginia mall.

Wexton called it “a kind of Parkinson’s on steroids.”

A father of four who worked as an interpreter for U.S. special forces in Afghanistan for a decade became a casualty of D.C.’s gun violence earlier this week.

Virginia’s attorney general says a wild animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has been convicted of wildlife trafficking.

A man charged with attacking two congressional staffers with a metal baseball bat is being held pending an initial court appearance.

Two members of U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly’s staff were assaulted with a metal baseball bat at his office in Virginia Monday morning, city of Fairfax police said.

The victim’s father said his son was enlisting the public’s help to make a video when someone got offended, pulled out a gun and shot him. The victim is part of a group called the Classified Goons, said his father, Jeremy Cook.

A 21-year-old man who was wounded in a shooting at Dulles Town Center was trying to make a prank video when he was shot, the victim’s father told News4.

Three Marines stopped a fight and prevented a man from being stabbed at a Chick-fil-A in Stafford County, Virginia.

Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard, who skillfully adapted stories of historical Black figures in “Remember the Titans” starring Denzel Washington, “Ali” with Will Smith and “Harriet” with Cynthia Erivo, has died. He was 70. Howard was the first Black screenwriter to write a drama that passed $100 million at the box office when “Titans” crossed that milestone in 2000. It was...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized unusual souvenirs from a Virginia woman’s luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport in November: animal bones.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has written to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to apologize for widely criticized remarks he made after the October attack on her husband.

An accused killer who mistakenly was released from a jail in Loudoun County, Virginia, was arrested Friday evening in Chatham County, Georgia.

A family finally has some answers about what happened to a 17-year-old girl who went missing from Northern Virginia nearly 50 years ago.