1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (283+ words) Dedicated crossing guards at Fairfax County high schools could return after county officials proposed restoring funding that was cut from the fiscal 2027 budget. The positions were eliminated during the county’s budget process last spring after officials said data, research and…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (257+ words) A judge sentenced Parkinson to six months in jail but suspended the entire sentence. General District Court Judge Brian J. Smalls presided over the case and conditioned the suspended sentence on Parkinson maintaining good behavior and complying with CPS terms, the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (208+ words) Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are investigating after a husband and wife were found shot to death inside a Centreville home. Officers were called to the 6300 block of Sharps Drive around 5:30 p.m. for a report of a shooting, according to authorities....

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (976+ words) Members of Alexandria’s City Council support removing the Alexandria Police Department’s Flock Safety cameras from the city, they said in interviews with the Alexandria Times and during a Tuesday evening Council meeting, following a wave of nationwide backlash to the…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (580+ words) A massive new transmission line planned for Virginia would run farther through Buckingham County than any other county in the state — even though Buckingham has no data center built or proposed. That disconnect is raising difficult questions about who benefits,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (237+ words) Mary Alice Sheehan Wahlstrom, a Portsmouth native and 1941 graduate of Portsmouth High School, was a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 11 when the plane was hijacked and flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept....

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (162+ words) A 16-year-old girl died and 21-year-old man was wounded in a shooting during an event that police said drew thousands of people to Old Town Manassas, Virginia, on Friday. The City of Manassas police said it happened shortly before 9:30 p.m. near…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (70+ words) Khaleel Mills, 32, was taken into custody after crisis negotiators convinced him to peacefully surrender. Mills has been charged with domestic assault and battery on a person over the age of 60, possession of a firearm while committing a crime of violence,…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (160+ words) An Alexandria, Virginia, woman who worked at a McLean daycare center has been charged after police said she assaulted two 2-year-old children while teaching at the facility. Wafa Abdelhafiz Abdalla, 61, was a teacher at Faz Creative Education Learning Center when…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (421+ words) Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border. She knows the hotel they were staying…...