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CHANTILLY, Va. — Police have arrested a 19-year-old for a series of burglaries that were reported at restaurants across Chantilly, Virginia. According to the Sully Police District (SPD), an officer was patrolling on Sunday when he noticed a shattered front door at the Megabites Eatery on Sullyfield Circle. Officers...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A jury said a woman should be sentenced for up to 78 years in prison it found her guilty of the 2018 murders of her two daughters. A statement from Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said that Veronica Youngblood shot 15-year-old Sharon Castro and 5-year-old Brooklynn Youngblood, […]

GAINESVILLE, Va. — Police are investigating after a man was stabbed multiple times in Gainesville, Virginia Saturday morning. According to the Prince William County Police Department (PWCPD), officers were called to the Somerset Point Apartments on Equinox Landing Court just after 7:30 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a...

Virginia woman and convicted murderer Veronica Youngblood, 37, was kicked out of court for lashing out during her sentencing hearing for killing her two daughters, Brooklynn Youngblood, 5, and Sharon Castro, 15. The post ‘No, no, no!’: Woman lashes out in court during sentencing for murdering her 2 daughters to spite her Navy pilot ex-husband first appeared on Law & Crime.

Residents around the DMV are noticing a strange burning smell throughout the region on Monday. The odor had people in Fairfax County, Arlington, D.C. and Prince George's County wondering if there was a fire near their neighborhood -- but the smoke and the smell actually came from much farther away.

An Amber Alert was issued in Maryland for Ariana Lockett, a 7-year-old girl last seen in Pikesville, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. According to Baltimore County police, Ariana is Black, 3 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 45 pounds and has black braided hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink coat and purple leggings. Police said a photo is pending.

A Kansas-based meat packer is recalling 3,436 pounds of boneless beef chuck after routine testing discovered E. coli. contamination in its product, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The FSIS said that meat packer Elkhorn Valley Packing of Harper, Kansas, voluntarily recalled its...

Per the State of Maryland: Governor Wes Moore today announced Electronic Benefits Transfer reimbursements for fraud victims. Since beginning outreach to eligible individuals last week, the Maryland Department of Human Services has approved nearly 1,300 claims totaling $761,584 in reimbursed benefits. “My administration is using a direct and swift approach...

Starting March 29, the University of Maryland Medical System will no longer require visitors and employees to wear a face mask in their medical facilities. Speaking with WBAL NewsRadio, UMMS President and CEO Dr. Mohan Suntha said the medical system was encouraged by increased vaccinations and other positive trends to return to what he called “level green,” including the lifting of their mask mandate.

Fairfax County Public Schools is considering a change to its dress code that would ban pajamas and sleepwear in classrooms, as well as prohibit any clothes that "expose underwear."

The Capital Art and Craft Festival wrapped up its final day on Sunday at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Judy Spargo and David Maynard join FOX 5 Sunday Morning to talk about what visitors of the show can expect.

Go to almost any parking lot in Prince William County and invariably you will see discarded gloves and masks, littered reminders of the pandemic we all lived through. Litter tells others what the people in a community think about where they live. If someone walked into your home and there were chip bags scattered on the floor, a week’s worth of fast food containers piled in the corner, ripped-up notebooks in the sink and a few tires sitting next to the couch, it would make an impression – and not a very good one. The same is true for our community.

MANASSAS, Va. — Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection to the rape of a young girl in Manassas, Virginia. According to the Prince William County Police Department (PWCPD), officers were called to a home for a report of a sexual assault just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to a fatal shooting in the Fairfax Village Apartments on Saturday (March 25). Fairfax County police officers were called to the apartment complex in the 10400 block of Viera Lane in Oakton at 7:47 a.m. by a family member of the victim who reported the shooting to 911.

The relative found the victim, 20-year-old Javier Gomez, with a gunshot wound to the upper body, and saw the suspect leaving the apartment...

BETHESDA - Maryland's First Lady Dawn Moore shared with FOX 5 for the first time that she has been living with multiple sclerosis. Moore says she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease a decade ago. "I was diagnosed with M.S. in my late twenties. And, you know, to get a...

The Daily Record has named Judge Amy Lorenzini, Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County to its 2023 listing of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. Maryland’s Top 100 Women was founded in 1996 to recognize outstanding achievements by women demonstrated through professional accomplishments, community leadership and mentoring. Nominees were...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — People in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia started blowing up social media Monday after they smelled something across the area, but couldn’t put their fingers on what it was. DC Fire and EMS actually tweeted about it at 12:14 p.m. after it began receiving calls from people in the District that […]

RESTON, Va. - Detectives in Fairfax County say a man exposed himself to two women in a Reston hotel. The incident happened Friday around 4:30 p.m. at the Extended Stay at 12190 Sunset Hills Road. Officers say a woman was inside a room with her two children and saw a man expose himself outside.

New Maryland provider opening in post-Roe 'abortion desert'. A new Maryland abortion provider is opening next to deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. The Women’s Health Center of Maryland in Cumberland will open in June. The nonprofit facility is opening a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. It will provide abortions to patients across central Appalachia. Clinic operators say the region is an “abortion desert.” The clinic will be the only independent and western-most provider in the state of Maryland that offers surgical and medical abortion and gender-affirming hormone therapy.