A 21-year-old hospital worker in northern Virginia was arrested on accusations he twice fondled a patient's genitals, authorities announced.Hektor Fernando Alvarez was hired by Metropolitan Healthcare Services (MHS), a company contracted by Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, at the time of the assaults, Fairfax County police said. He has since been fired.On Thursday, July 7, the ...

More than a dozen people were injured Saturday, Aug. 12, when a car drove into a crowd during a benefit for the 10 victims killed in the Nescopeck fire, various outlets and first responders say.The crash occurred at Intoxicology Department along West 2nd Street around 6:30 p.m. in Berwick. Please pray for all the victims and families involved in ID bar and Nescopeck ...

A motorcyclist was killed in a Fairfax County crash Saturday, Aug. 13, authorities announced.The victim collided head-on with a vehicle at Henderson Road and Devereux Station Lane in Fairfax Station around 7 p.m. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A teen was being sought in a stabbing that left one person seriously injured Saturday, Aug. 13 in Fairfax County, authorities said.The victim suffered life-threatening injuries on the 6000 block of Argyle Drive in Falls Church, county police said.The suspect was described as a Hispanic teenager with black curly hair amd dark clothes. Anyone with information is urged to call 9-1-1.

Emmy-winning actress Anne Heche, who died nearly a week after a fiery crash, had New Jersey ties.The youngest of five children, Heche was born in Ohio and moved nearly a dozen times with her family — eventually settling in Ocean City.It was there that she "came into her own," and worked at 76 House Dinner Theater in Swainton as a performer, earning $100 a week, South Jersey ...

More than a dozen people were hurt including two critically when a rideshare driver crashed into an Arlington restaurant Friday, Aug. 12, authorities said.The vehicle slammed into Ireland’s Four Courts on Wilson Boulevard around 6:45 p.m., police said. The restaurant was immediately evacuated with nine patients hospitalized and six treated for non-life-threatening injuries, county ...

A serious motorcycle crash shut a roadway in Ocean County Saturday, Aug. 13.A medevac was called to the 400 block of Manchester Boulevard in Manchester, shutting the road at Hilltop around 3 p.m.

A newly-released video shows the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.The author was attacked while speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in New York Friday, Aug. 12. Police identified Fairview, NJ's Hadi Matar, 24, as a suspect, who was in custody. His home was searched that evening.The Facebook video was posted by audience member Stephen Davies, and shows the chaos that ensued about 15 ...

A man trying to swipe items from Walmart by hiding them in a Pagan's Motorcycle Gang vest was busted with a loaded handgun that he wasn't licensed to carry, authorities in Delaware County said.Patrick Sean Griffin, Sr. was stopped by officers at the MacDade Boulevard store in Darby Township on July 29, after he was captured on surveillance taking several items out of their ...

A 55-year-old rideshare driver was shot and killed while working in Prince George's County this week, authorities said.Officers were called to the 5400 block of Chesterfield Drive in Temple Hills for a welfare check when they found Nesredin Esleiman, of Silver Spring, suffering from a gunshot wound inside of a car around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10. He was pronounced dead on ...