Can $750 a month change lives? Fairfax County wants to find out

What happens when you give families an extra $750 a month, place no restrictions on how they can spend it, and offer them free financial coaching? 

Veronica Youngblood sentenced to 78 years in prison for killing daughters in Virginia

A northern Virginia mother who sedated her two daughters with melatonin-laced gummy bears before fatally shooting them was sentenced Friday to 78 years in prison.

Megan Hargan's retrial ends in guilty verdict

A jury has found a woman guilty of murdering her mother and sister, whose 2017 deaths were initially believed to be a murder-suicide. 

Man robbed of cell phones by crooks posing as buyers he met on Offer Up app: police

Police in Fairfax County are warning residents who use online marketplaces for sales and purchases after a man was robbed of two cell phones by two crooks posing as buyers online.

Charges dropped against suspect in Chantilly sex battery case

A Fairfax County judge has dropped the charges against a suspected serial sex assault suspect accused of multiple attacks.

72-year-old charged after touching minor inappropriately in Fairfax

According to the City of Fairfax Police, 72-year-old Timoteo Aleman has been arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery.

Local police departments explore new recruiting efforts, look to Latino communities to pick up staff

Prince George’s County Police tells FOX 5 they’re planning to recruit in Puerto Rico as departments across expand their reach trying to compete for the best recruits amid staffing shortages and rising crime.

Cash, guns, fentanyl seized in Fairfax County over end of summer

Thousands in cash, piles of fentanyl and opiate pills, and several handguns were seized by Fairfax County detectives over the end of the summer, officials say.

Fairfax County police make arrest in grisly 1994 homicide thanks to DNA break through

Police in Fairfax County say after nearly three decades, an arrest has been made in the brutal stabbing death of a mother whose body was found inside her Springfield home.

Multi-vehicle crash on I-66 causes major delays in Fairfax

Authorities say a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate-66 has caused major delays Friday morning in Fairfax.