Northern Virginia

A man who worked for a contractor that provided afterschool programming at Fairfax County elementary schools faces 24 felonies related to unlawfully filming girls inside two schools. The suspect, 25-year-old Arturo Elmore-Adon, is already in custody for alleged crimes against a minor. Now, he’s charged with several more felonies. “Holding a r...

A 19-year-old man was shot to death trying to break up a fight early Sunday morning, according to the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office. Christian Whalen was at a bonfire party in a wooded area off Spotswood Furnace Road when another teenager shot him. A sheriff’s deputy drove him from the scene to a rescue station, from where he was...

A new bus route for the Fairfax Connector will link Tysons, Virginia, to Bethesda, Maryland, providing an alternate to Metro’s long train ride between the two locations.

A judge in Loudoun County, Virginia, was arrested over Labor Day weekend and charged with public intoxication, police say.

A mother and her partner were arrested after officers found two little boys chained up in an apartment in the Groveton area of Fairfax County, Virginia, authorities said.

Police are searching for three teens believed to be behind a brazen smash-and-grab robbery that led to a lockdown at the Pentagon City Mall. Arlington County Police first responded to the fashion Centre at Pentagon City mall for reports of shots fired around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. Investigators say no shooting happened, but that the alleged thieves b...

Families in an Arlington neighborhood got so used to hearing explosions at night that they assumed people were setting off fireworks, but that changed when the bomb squad pulled up and took away one of their neighbors. News4’s Arielle Hixson reports.

A man who was recently arrested for improperly touching a little girl in a grocery store in Reston, Virginia, is now accused of child pornography possession. A 7-year-old was with her mother at the Safeway in the 11100 block of South Lakes Drive on Aug. 10 when a man at the self-checkout grabbed her buttocks. Police later identified him as…...

The Manassas Park man jailed in connection to his wife’s disappearance returned to court Thursday, where his defense attorney took an unusual legal step as News4 obtained search warrant documents that reveal new details about the investigation.

The Manassas Park man jailed in connection to his wife’s disappearance returned to court Thursday, where his defense attorney took an unusual legal step as News4 obtained search warrant documents that reveal new details about the investigation.

A young woman and man died early Wednesday morning in a shooting outside an office complex in Sterling, Virginia, authorities say.

An influx of transfer students to the football program at Hayfield High School raised eyebrows among families, but the program’s practices have been found to be above board. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Detectives spent about three hours inside the Manassas Park home of a missing woman. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.