Denise Lavoie, Associated Press

Richmond police said the suspect, Amari Pollard, 19, knew victim Shawn Jackson and the two had been embroiled in a dispute for more than a year.

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds violates the Second Amendment

A grand jury sitting in Newport News charged the boy’s 25-year-old mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a firearm.

Students were greeted by a line of police officers, Mayor Phillip Jones, and other adults who gave them high-fives as they walked into the school.

The winter storm that contributed to at least five deaths in the Midwest pummeled the mid-Atlantic region for a second day Sunday,

At first glance, the text messages appear to show a disturbing case of cyberbullying: one teen urging another to kill himself. But the texts were not sent by a school bully. They were from a 17-year-old girl to her boyfriend, whom she called the love of her life.

Police said they have video showing a man who was under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators lunging with a knife at a Boston police officer and an FBI agent before he was shot and killed — an account his brother has disputed.

A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a "kid" who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother.

After months of testimony, the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to begin weighing his punishment this week.

Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are getting ready to hear evidence on what his punishment should be -- life in prison or the death penalty -- as survivors and victims' families weigh in with their views.

Now that a jury has convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all charges, even more is at stake in the next phase of the federal trial: The same 12 people must decide whether the 21-year-old lives or dies.

Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are set to begin deliberations after both prosecutors and his lawyers told them Tsarnaev must be held accountable for participating in the terror attack.

With one last chance to connect with the jury, lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are expected to continue to portray him as an aimless college student who fell under the domineering influence of his radicalized older brother.

It didn't take long for prosecutors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial to convey the sense of fear, pain and grief caused by the 2013 attack. They let victims do it for them.

His life on the line, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing, with prosecutors saying he used a backpack to plant a bomb designed to "tear people apart and create a bloody spectacle."