Fairfax County

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...

The Supreme Court has turned away a plea from parents to block a new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia that a lower court had found discriminates against Asian American students

Police in Virginia have confirmed the identities of four women allegedly killed by Anthony Eugene Robinson. Officials say he is possibly connected to a fifth homicide uncovered in D.C.

Fairfax County police say they have “evidence of an alleged serial killer” after four bodies have been found in Virginia since August.

So many of the victims killed on 9/11 were parents, leaving behind young children who have only faint memories of their mom or dad. One young man in Fairfax County, Virginia, is making sure he lives up to his father’s hopes and dreams, and his mother has been at his side all along, helping him to understand his father’s...

Fairfax and Loudoun continue to seek changes for names of major highways, but many side streets also carry Confederate names, both well known and long forgotten.

For 12 hours a day, he is D.C. National Guard Sgt. Jacob Kohut, one of more than 20,000 National Guard members in the nation’s capitol who will provide security ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. For a few hours each morning on Zoom in his Humvee, he is Dr. Kohut, an elementary and middle school music teacher in...

A special grand jury assembled by the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office indicted two federal officers in the fatal 2017 shooting of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar.  U.S. Park Police officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard were indicted separately on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm, Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said. News4 reported late last year that...

Robert E. Lee High School in Virginia is getting a name change after the school board voted to rename the school after the late congressman John Lewis.

A Virginia State trooper assigned to Fairfax County has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he intentionally coughed on a driver to spread the coronavirus. A separate criminal investigation into the trooper also is underway.  Trooper Jacob P. Gooch was placed on administrative leave in early May and later resigned, state police told News4 on Monday. ...

An online sting operation in northern Virginia has resulted in the arrests of 30 men charged with trolling the Internet to solicit sex from minors.

Authorities in Virginia say investigators solved the killing of a 12-year-old girl who was found slain in a wooded area in 1972

A Northern Virginia police officer was put on leave after authorities say he violated policy by alerting federal immigration authorities he was detaining a driver who missed his deportation hearing.

A 12-year-old girl who accused three sixth-grade boys of pinning her down and cutting her dreadlocks has admitted to school officials she was not attacked and cut her own hair, her family’s attorney said.

An former Navy SEAL says he has the solution to stopping school shootings: He’s training dogs to find them and take them down.

Police declared Gannett’s national headquarters safe on Wednesday after receiving a report that an armed person was seen there, sparking the evacuation of the building and a search for a person of interest.

The deaths of three recent patients at the Washington DC VA Medical Center are raising questions about whether the medical center thoroughly checks on its patients after discharge.

Bitterly cold weather is a nuisance for some and a danger for others. Officer Laurie Reyes advises you to speak up and call 911 if you see someone under-dressed or in need of help during the upcoming winter weather. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.