FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.  – A Fairfax man was charged Thursday with endangering the lives of aircraft operators.

A county police chopper was flying over Mantua Elementary School, near George Mason University, when the pilot spotted a group of people at the elementary school at 11:26 p.m.


WOODBRIDGE, Va. – Police say a Baptist pastor has resigned from his church and now faces sex charge

A 17-year-old female told police that she and the pastor shared several consensual sexual encounters in April, but that the two began a close friendship in Sept. 2007, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


DUMFRIES, Va. – A bicyclist was shot in the leg early Saturday in Dumfries.

Police said the male victim was riding in the area of Port O Dumfries on Graham Park Road when three men approached him and threatened to drag him into the woods, said Prince William police spokesman Mark Merriman.


Trying to skirt a traffic back-up on Interstate 95 didn’t pay for a Fairfax woman.

When the 28-year-old female driver of a tan sedan tried to bail out of heavy traffic on the southbound lanes in Woodbridge she hit a ditch and got stuck after sometime after 2 p.m. Friday.


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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – You can’t see through the tinted windows of the police car that sits on the median of Va. 610 in North Stafford, but authorities say they can see you.

It’s known as the “decoy car.” A Ford Crown Victoria baring the markings of the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office sits on the heavily traveled six-lane thoroughfare, near Staffordborough Boulevard, to remind drivers to take it easy behind the wheel.


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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – The first man distracted the clerk while the second broke into the manager’s office.

That’s how investigators think a July 7 breaking and entering went down at an Exxon gas station on Courthouse Road.


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