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

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 ...

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.

At the time his death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma, but there were no leads on the case until now, police said.

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

A man who was caught on camera repeatedly hitting and dragging a senior bus driver in Lorton, Virginia, earlier this month has been arrested, Fairfax County Police Department authorities said on ...

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.

But what that future holds remains to be seen. Below are five questions that the Lorton area and the rest of Fairfax County face as EnviroSolutions Inc. prepares to shut down its 250-acre landfill ...