Virginia

A leader of the gang MS-13 was arrested in Virginia early Thursday, top Trump administration officials announced amid a crackdown on immigrants accused of gang activity.

Authorities previously said they had no evidence suggesting Aber’s death was caused by anything other than natural causes.

Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old.

University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, 20, went missing on March 6 while on spring break in the Dominican Republic.

Prosecutors have said Jiang intended to shoot congregation members of the Park Valley Church in Haymarket in September 2023.

Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling by all accounts became the first woman in Virginia given the go-ahead by political leaders to vote remotely after she delivered her child last week. While the freshman delegate juggled nursery prep and committee meetings, LeVere Bolling went into labor just days after lawmakers hit the halfway point of their legislative session. According to this year’s...

An American Eagle passenger plane collided with a military helicopter while on approach to Reagan National Airport.

Here’s what we know so far about President Trump’s executive order on requiring federal employees to return to work in person full-time.

The U.S. Labor Department says Perdue Farms will pay $4 million in restitution after it employed children in hazardous occupations in Virginia.

The zoo says it received 116,000 online and in-person votes from people in 165 countries.

A former Virginia hospital worker was arrested in connection with an incident that left three babies with “unexplainable fractures,” officials said.

The prosecutors wrote that this is believed to be “the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history” and said the defendant is being held on a firearms charge with the chance of receiving more explosives charges.

On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. Now, you can vote to help decide her name.

A George Mason University freshman was arrested by the FBI and charged with distributing information about weapons of mass destruction online, after plotting a mass-casualty attack against people at the Israeli consulate in New York, according to court documents.

A 58-year-old father of five was killed last week in Virginia when a bear that was shot fell on him from out of a tree. The man was on a hunting trip when another shooter fired at the animal.

An incoming West Virginia state lawmaker was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened to kill other state lawmakers.

A grand jury indicted the husband of a Northern Virginia mother missing since July on a first-degree murder charge Monday.

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told NBC News he recently “made a mistake” mixing Ambien and alcohol ahead of a flight and was “briefly detained” by police.

People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the election that told them to report to plantations to pick cotton.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.