Virginia State Police

Police responded to a shooting to find one person dead and eight injured. Then, police responded to a second shooting to find another victim dead in an unrelated incident.

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. ...

A young couple from Northern Virginia were found shot to death in the median of a rural highway hours away from home, relatives say.

A young couple from Northern Virginia were found shot to death in the median of a rural highway hours away from home, relatives say.

Virginia Tech sophomores Heidi Lynn Childs and David Lee Metzler were found fatally shot in 2009.

A former reality TV star will serve 16 years in prison for killing a U.S. Coast Guard technician in a drunken wrong-way collision on a Virginia highway. News outlets reported that Melissa Hancock was sentenced Wednesday after earlier pleading guilty to manslaughter, driving the wrong way and failing to obey a highway sign.

At least one person was killed after a helicopter crashed into a residential structure in Virginia, authorities said. Virginia State Police confirmed the fatality in a statement Sunday evening. Police said they are still working to locate and identify the pilot of the helicopter, which crashed in a residential area in Williamsburg and started a fire at a townhouse.

A Virginia National Guard soldier who stole an armored personnel carrier and led police on a more than 60-mile chase through central Virginia was under the influence of drugs, authorities say.

The Stafford County sheriff released dramatic dashcam video showing the pursuit on Interstate 95 of a man suspected of gunning down his wife, then opening fire on police and shooting himself in the head as he attempted to flee.

After a weekend of deadly violence and chaos in Charlottesville, regular operations resumed at the University of Virginia with officials again denouncing white supremacy and insisting that the community “will not surrender” to hatred. Virginia President Teresa Sullivan said Sunday evening that the school went back to its regular schedules, which include open houses later this week, after she canceled...

The young man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally was fascinated with Nazism, idolized Adolf Hitler, and had been singled out by school officials in the 9th grade for his “deeply held, radical” convictions on race, a former high school teacher said Sunday. James Alex Fields Jr. also confided that he...

Authorities have charged a 20-year-old Ohio man for the deadly car ramming incident in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, as the Department of Justice announced a civil rights investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash. James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing Heather Heyer,...

For the 30th year, the annual Rolling Thunder “Ride for Freedom” rumbled into Washington with hundreds of thousands of bikers. The official events started Friday evening, with the “Blessing of the Bikes” at Washington National Cathedral....
Since 1988, thousands of bikers and spectators have converged in Washington to honor military veterans and members of the military missing in action. More than...

Virginia State Police are investigating a plane crash at an airport near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

A Virginia police trooper died after a man shot him at a bus station in Richmond on Thursday, police said.

Authorities in Virginia are trying to round up cattle that are wandering on an interstate after a tractor-trailer carrying the livestock overturned.

The lawyer for the man charged in a UVa. student’s disappearance says police haven’t told him what evidence they have against his client.

A family of five, including three children, was found fatally shot in their Culpeper, Virginia, home in what appears to be a murder-suicide.