northern Virginia

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.

If an Alexandria couple had not checked their home security cameras while they were out of town last week, they might have come home to a tragedy.

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.

Pete and Betty Anastasi married on June 9, 1945. Now 100 and 97 years old, they’re celebrating their 77th anniversary.

A driver faces charges after police say she dropped food and a drink in her car, lost control and hit four people in Annandale, Virginia, killing a woman.

Lawyers for Johnny Depp have questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard’s claim that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Heard was cross-examined Tuesday after her testimony in Depp’s libel suit against her. Depp is suing Heard in Virginia over a 2018 op-ed piece she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp’s lawyer questioned Heard...

Jurors in Johnny Depp’s libel trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard were shown photos of her with red marks and swelling on her face after their final fight before their divorce. Heard was back on the witness stand Monday for a third day of testimony in a libel suit filed against her by Depp. The high-profile trial is resuming after...