Fairfax County News

Police in Fairfax County are asking for your help as they continue to investigate an accident that took away the parents of three Fairfax Station children.

An elderly woman has been tragically killed in a freak accident outside her home in Annandale this Friday morning.

It's been nearly a week since police shot and killed a suspected flower thief along Route 1 in Huntington and investigators have offered few details about what led an officer to open fire.

Loudoun County sheriff's investigators are working to see if three people arrested in Fairfax County last week are responsible for a series of daytime home burglaries in South Riding.

WASHINGTON Charlene Lugar, wife of Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., was arrested Wednesday evening on drunk driving and hit-and-run charges after hitting an empty parked car near their home in a Washington suburb.

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine yesterday unveiled an investment of $200 million by a nonprofit medical research institute expected to generate more than 400 jobs in Northern Virginia.

More students could be walking to school in Fairfax County in the future, rather than riding the bus.

It was one of the most shocking and gruesome crimes in recent memory: the murder of three men in a home off Moultrie Road in Springfield.

The hunters are coming. Faced with an out-of-control population of the fine little fuzzy animals, Fairfax County is letting hunters into two local parks: Colvin Run and Laurel Hill .

A quarter of U.S. teens ages 16 to 17 who have cell phones say they text while driving, and almost half of Americans ages 12 to 17 say they've been in cars with someone who texted while behind the wheel, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

The Virginia House of Delegates' Democratic and Republican caucuses each elected their leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session during the weekend.

The ex-wife of a man who was fatally shot by Fairfax County police says he suffered from bipolar disorder.

Does the Virginia gubernatorial victory handed Republican Robert F. McDonnell mean that voters support his education agenda? Voters and school-choice advocates won't know the answer until after the General Assembly convenes in January and the governor-elect is sworn in.

Fairfax County Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left one man dead on Friday.

Virginia police responding to a report of a theft in progress shot and killed a suspect.

"Energizing Fairfax County - Climate Change and Energy Efficiency!" This will be an opportunity for you to learn about what is happening in our region and in Fairfax County to conserve our energy resources.

Three people have charged for a string of burglaries in Northern Virginia targeting gold jewelry belonging to South-Asian families.

A home in the 12900 block of Cedar Glen Lane was burglarized while the residents were away on Oct.

Virginia leaders will announce Monday that the Ignite Institute for Individualized Health , a new personalized medicine research institute, plans to make Fairfax County its new home, according to sources close to the deal.

After the foundations of Loudoun politics got shaken on Election Day, attention quickly turned from campaigning and glad-handing to governing and addressing serious issues.