Virginia

Thousands of gun-rights activists rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday under a heavy police presence, protesting plans by the state's Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.

Del. Lee Carter, a Democrat from Manassas, will spend Monday in a safe house after he said he received death threats ahead of a rally that’s expected to draw crowds of gun activists to Virginia’s capital.

FBI agents on Thursday arrested a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two Maryland men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group and were believed to be heading to a pro-gun rally next week in Virginia’s capital.

Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in an effort to have it added to the U.S. Constitution.

Police in Virginia responded Monday to a report of an active shooter in the area of a Henrico County middle school but said they did not find any evidence of a shooting.

A battle over gun control in Virginia with national implications is heating up as the legislature prepares to vote on sweeping new restrictions and localities band together to defy them in growing numbers.

A man visiting family for the holidays was hospitalized and jailed after a father found him partially naked in his children’s bedroom just days after Christmas, authorities say.

Authorities said that the man would film, produce, direct, and carry out violent rape and sexual abuse of a child.

The holidays came early for some Virginia families struggling to pay school lunch debt.

A viewer sent Fox 5 a photo of the aftermath. 

Megan Grimes of Virginia said she likes to make costumes for her kids that “push the limits.”

A Virginia sheriff has vowed to deputize residents in his county if the new Democratic-led legislature enacts gun control measures.

A 14-year-old Arlington girl fought back when a man attacked her in the street Tuesday night. 

Newlyweds Lauren and Matthew Urey were among the 47 people on White Island when a volcano suddenly erupted on Monday.

According to Hopewell Police, 33-year-old Lieutenant Ashley Berry was shot and killed with her child beside her.

Matteo Lambert has ran 120 miles in 35 races across the U.S. and Canada and raised $65,500 for children with cancer.

A Virginia woman faces a felony animal cruelty charge after authorities say she admitted to hanging her ex-boyfriend’s puppy from a tree.

You would hardly call this Trump country. In fact, in Fairfax County in 2016 President Trump collected just over 28 percent of the vote.  

Former ‘American Idol’ contestant Antonella Barba has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for carrying nearly two pounds of fentanyl in Virginia’s Hampton Roads area.