Virginia State Police ramping up enforcement for Fourth of July weekend
We hit the halfway mark on calendar year 2026 with Virginia State Police having recorded 307 fatal crashes on our roadways in the first six months of the year.
We hit the halfway mark on calendar year 2026 with Virginia State Police having recorded 307 fatal crashes on our roadways in the first six months of the year.
A single-engine plane taking a short flight from Richmond International Airport to Tri-Cities Executive/Dinwiddie County Airport south of Petersburg crashed in a wooded area near Interstate 85 at the 62.4-mile marker on Monday evening.
Virginia State Police is requesting the public’s help with information with a reported shooting Saturday night on Interstate 64 eastbound between Jefferson Avenue and J. Clyde Morris Boulevard in Newport News.
Virginia State Police is crowdsourcing its investigation into a fatal crash that occurred Friday morning at 4:08 a.m. on Interstate 95 northbound at the 117-mile marker in Spotsylvania County.
A Harrisonburg man is dead after a crash on U.S. 33, approximately one mile east of the Skyline Drive, on Thursday night.
A crash in Augusta County on Thursday night claimed the life of a Northern Virginia man after his vehicle struck a tree on Route 612.
Virginia State Police will have extra troopers assigned to patrol Interstate 64 on Thursday and Friday this week.
A Virginia State Police contact told us Saturday that the investigation into the Dec. 17 officer-involved shooting of Dustin Griffin is still ongoing.
Multiple vehicles were involved in a crash on Interstate 95 south of Richmond on Wednesday, with several injuries.
A K9 dog named Bandit searched a vehicle following a traffic stop on Route 29 and found illegal drugs in the vehicle, according to police.
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