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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.

A Northern Virginia man who has worked in the Environmental Protection Agency mail room for nearly 30 years is feeling the pain of the government shutdown. News4’s David Culver has the story. 

A Northern Virginia teen with autism who has a serious love for peanut butter handed out jars of his favorite food to people affected by the government shutdown.

The partial government shutdown continues to squeeze small business owners, who are seeing drops in sales and cuts to employee work hours.

Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, said Tuesday she would return to teaching art at a northern Virginia elementary school that explicitly bars its employees from engaging in or condoning “homosexual or lesbian sexual activity” and “transgender identity,” NBC News reported. The employment application for the Immanuel Christian School, which was first reported on by HuffPost, asks...

Amazon is moving into New York City and Northern Virginia. The company announced Tuesday it plans to locate its new “HQ2” headquarters in both areas, ending a year-long courtship by metropolitan areas across North America. Each location will receive $2.5 billion in economic investment and see 25,000 new jobs, Amazon said. The company selected the Long Island City neighborhood of...