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ALERT: Telegraph Road in Lorton is blocked off in both directions after a water main break left the street flooded overnight.

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 ...

LORTON, Va. — A mystery that haunted Fairfax County investigators for more than half a century has finally been solved.

The Fairfax County Police Department announced a major breakthrough Monday in a cold case from 1972. Police identified the ...

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

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.

When Lorton opened in 1910, it was a showplace of prison reform. Its famous architect, Snowden Ashford, also worked on what’s now Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the Greek Revival beauty in ...

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 ...