Alexandria VA

Nobody Called It “Spite House” Until the 1900s. The famous blue building wasn’t always known as the Spite House. For decades, locals just called it “the alley house” or “Hollensbury’s folly.” The first documented use of “Spite House” appeared in a 1950 newspaper article, over a century after it was built.

After a victim was robbed at gunpoint in Tysons on Thursday, her boyfriend's home was burglarized. Police suspect the two incidents are connected.

Several arrests were made at D.C. parks on Tuesday, prompting outrage on social media. One TikTok user with the profile name MaiFlower posted that while sitting in a park Tuesday evening, she witnessed partially uniformed U.S. Park Police officers in an unmarked vehicle arrest a man for smoking marijuana. The...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — A routine bond hearing in Alexandria circuit court on Thursday morning revealed graphic new details about the way a local pet groomer allegedly engaged in acts of animal cruelty, resulting in the death of a three-year-old golden retriever in one case, prosecutors say. Until his...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A man was injured after a shooting in Northeast, D.C., late Wednesday night that saw numerous homes and cars damaged, with suspects still sought, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Officials said the man was found shot and injured in the 1500 block of Benning Road,...

A massive vehicle explosion caught on camera rocked a parking lot in a major Washington, DC, suburb Thursday. The fiery explosion was confirmed on Facebook by Arlington Fire & EMS in Virginia, saying that it resulted from a “BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) from the fuel tank rupturing.” The car...

Some mornings you want a fancy brunch with bottomless mimosas, and other mornings you need the kind of breakfast that feels like a warm hug from your favorite grandparent – Barnside Diner in Alexandria, Virginia delivers exactly that second kind, and Virginians are happily making the pilgrimage from miles around.

Two teenagers were arrested and another person is being sought in connection with an attempted strong-arm carjacking in Bethesda.

Firefighters responded around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 23, to the 5000 block of Dunstable Lane in the Kingstowne area, where flames and smoke were seen pouring from the rear of several units, according to the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. A second alarm was quickly called as crews worked...

A Chillum man was sentenced Thursday for a pet-selling fraud scheme that resulted in over $900,00 being stolen from victims.