The Fairfax County Police Department announced a major breakthrough Monday in a cold case from 1972. Police identified the ...

LORTON, Va. — A mystery that haunted Fairfax County investigators for more than half a century has finally been solved.

A 4-year-old boy who was found dead in Lorton, Virginia, more than 50 years ago, and whose name has remained a mystery, has ...

We could save billions by transforming these shuttered monuments to mass incarceration into something far more useful, humane ...

Police have confirmed the identity of a 5-year-old child whose body was discovered in Massey Creek under the Old Colchester ...

Long before DNA was used to solve crimes, the original detective on the case kept a sample of the child’s hair.

Hair saved in a case file and the latest DNA technology led Virginia police to the name of a 4-year-old boy found dead 53 ...

Laurel Hill Park recently highlighted some common “good” bugs … and one big bad one. No, it’s not the Spotted Lantern Fly ...

A man who was caught on camera repeatedly hitting and dragging a senior bus driver in Lorton, Virginia, earlier this month ...

Lou Husser, a member of the Washington Ship Model Society, restored the model he is holding, which was built by a Lorton prison inmate about a half-century ago. The prison closed in 2001.