On the weekend, we review the top stories and headlines from across Virginia. Here's a roundup of some of the biggest stories across the state. You can also find your local Patch and catch up on those stories by clicking here.
Rescuers formed a human chain to pull a woman from a sinking car in Chantilly last weekend.
A Haymarket woman has been charged with child neglect after police say she left an 8-year-old in a car for an hour on a day when temperatures reached 98 degrees.
Two men have been charged in federal court with participating in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of fentanyl pills throughout Northern Virginia, according to criminal court filings unsealed Wednesday.
Federal health officials are trying to identify the source of a foodborne parasite illness that has sickened people in 17 states, including Virginia, with symptoms that can include weeks of diarrhea.
Virginia Task Force 1, an urban search and rescue unit, was part of multiple rescues in Venezuela last weekend after having arrived in the country the week before.
A woman has been arrested after a man was attacked with bleach early Monday morning, Prince William County police say.
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Virginia, claiming the state's new law restricting the sale and purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms violates the Second Amendment.
Manassas Park police are asking the public for help finding the driver in a hit-and-run crash with a pedestrian on Wednesday.
A former senior U.S. intelligence official from Stafford County has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after being convicted of sexually abusing two women during a government intelligence conference in Williamsburg.
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