Fairfax County News

Outside the courtroom and the headlines, there are local residents who have been very personally affected by the 11 Virginia churches that broke ... 0 comments - more ... What do you think the General Assembly ...

Former Virginia Sen. Joseph Gartlan, who championed environmental and social causes while representing Fairfax County for 28 years, has died following a brief illness.

Police say Helene Seabrook is wanted on numerous outstanding warrants for allegedly being involved in three burglaries occurring in different homes where jewelry and/or electronics were taken.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has issued a quarantine in Fairfax County to halt the movement of ash trees and products to stem the spread of a tree-killing pest.

POUGHKEEPSIE City of Poughkeepsie Police have arrested two men following a report of a gunpoint robbery behind 307 Main Street shortly before midnight Saturday.

Less than a week before his court-ordered deadline to pack up and leave the country, 13-year-old Boy Scout Jose Andrade ... Witness recounts accident on bus that killed Sterling, Centreville men A co-worker ...

Obama makes second major campaign appearance in Virginia The energy was high at Robinson Secondary School on July 10 as hundreds of people gathered to hear Presidential Candidate ... What do you think the ...

Virginia legislators will return to the state Capitol on Wednesday for a last-ditch effort at finding a solution to fund transportation projects, but few officials expect an agreement, heightening a political ...

Keith and Linda Stetzer found the 3-carat diamond ring two weeks ago in a Tysons Corner parking garage.

The emerald ash borer, a pest that has decimated trees in the Midwest, has arrived in Fairfax County .

The emerald ash borer has been discovered in two locations in Fairfax County. The tree-killing pest was discovered at locations in Herndon and in Springfield this week, the Virginia Department of Agriculture ...

Miles Harrison, 49, of Purcellville, was planning to take his son, Chase, to his day-care center on Tuesday morning, but Harrison left the 21-month-old in his GMC Yukon in the parking lot of his office at 580 ...

A Purcellville man has been charged with Manslaughter after his 21-month-year-old son was found dead in an unattended vehicle at ... Girl assaulted in Vienna A 13-year-old girl reported that she was sexually ...

Results Thursday as the Senate, on a 16-18 vote, killed a measure that would have designated money raised by oil and gas leases off the Virginia coast for transportation projects if Congress lifts the ban on ...

A father has been charged with manslaughter after his 21-month-old child was found dead in an unattended vehicle in Herndon.

Fairfax County police say $326,000 has been stolen from Fairfax Connector bus fare boxes since last year.

Senator Barack Obama will hold a town hall meeting Thursday at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County.

Some local government and law enforcement agencies in the D.C. area are modifying their budgets and making adjustments to keep up with high fuel costs.

For the first time, the number of Asian American students will outnumber their white classmates in the freshman class this fall at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria.

A Fairfax County, Virginia couple is searching for the owner of a $40,000 diamond ring found at the Tyson's Corner shopping center.