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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...

Jurors in Johnny Depp’s libel trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard were shown photos of her with red marks and swelling on her face after their final fight before their divorce. Heard was back on the witness stand Monday for a third day of testimony in a libel suit filed against her by Depp. The high-profile trial is resuming after...

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.

The centerpiece of Amazon’s HQ2 project in Arlington County might not fly with the FAA.

Doctors explain the stress of isolation, loss of work and loss of health coverage are partially to blame — but they’re finding that something else is causing the spike in overdoses.

A high school teacher in Northern Virginia has been relieved of his teaching duties after he cited the death of George Floyd as part of a chemistry assignment.

The National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is opening its doors on Veterans Day.

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.

A Virginia middle-schooler reached for the stars. Alexander Mather, a seventh-grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, won NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. The space agency announced Thursday it will use Alexander’s suggested name, Perseverance, for the next Mars rover. The Mars rover is a robotic vehicle with wheels that can easily move around the surface...

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month sentence for an alleged neo-Nazi from northern Virginia who pleaded guilty last year to weapons violations

The woman who lost her job after displaying her middle finger at President Donald Trump’s motorcade has won a seat on a county board of supervisors in Virginia.

A top weather forecasting official, who oversaw the government’s prediction centers that track ocean, hurricane and even space conditions, has died in rough seas on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. William Lapenta, 58, died Monday after lifeguards pulled him from the surf off the coastal town of Duck, local officials said. The National Weather Service had issued a warning earlier Monday...

Three sixth-grade boys at a Christian school in Northern Virginia pinned down a black classmate and cut off some of her dreadlocks while telling her her hair was “nappy” and “ugly,” she told News4.

A Northern Virginia woman is suing a company that she says refused to hire her after she requested two five-minute breaks to pray during her work shift.

Amazon is doubling the number of workers at his operations in Chicago’s Loop.

The top headlines you need to know as your start your day on Sept. 16, 2019.

Records show the self-cleaning toilet at the Huntington station hasn’t worked since 2017 — this despite years of maintenance that likely totaled more than $500,000.

Fairfax County health officials said they don’t yet have a cause of the respiratory illness that sicked more than 60 residents at a Northern Virginia senior living community.

Amazon reversed course on plans for a new headquarters in New York City, citing the opposition of state and local politicians. The Seattle-based company said it isn’t pursuing another location for expansion, though it will continue building a headquarters in Northern Virginia.