“This is a responsible approach that keeps initial background checks for sensitive jobs in state government while ensuring that a youthful mistake or wrong decision doesn’t close the doors of opportunity for a lifetime.”

Four college students in North Carolina have invented a nail polish that changes color if it comes in contact with drugs commonly used to render a person helpless in order to rape him or her: Rohypnol, Xanax, and GHB. But there’s been a backlash against the product — from women.

NOVA Police Officer Lt. John Weinstein has been accused, along with the former mayor of the town of Quantico, of selling police service weapons that were owned by the town.

A bomb threat has been called in to George Mason University’s Prince William County campus.

The new assistant chief of NOVA Police is William “Jake” Jacoby.

Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds, 55, is recovering from multiple stab wounds acquired during a tragic altercation Nov. 19 with his son, Austin “Gus” Deeds, 24. The younger Deeds died that day of what police say appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

During the investigation, NOVA Police “got a hit on two computers at a pawn shop.” The police found out who sold the computers to the shop and it led to a NOVA student.

Eight computers were stolen from multiple unattended classrooms at Annandale campus early in the fall semester. This prompted Northern Virginia Community College police to remind faculty not to leave classrooms unattended.

Northern Virginia Community College sent out an alert that for the second time in a few days a female has reportedly been sexually assaulted on campus.

Students at Annandale campus were on guard Friday after a woman was reportedly sexually assaulted in a stairwell of one of the buildings.