Brendan Banfield, a Virginia husband, is being accused of plotting with his family’s au pair to kill his wife and another man in their home. Banfield was taken into custody by Virginia police nearly a year and a half after the alleged double murder plot.

A Fairfax County police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses from a department store at Tysons Corner is in court Wednesday evening.

A former northern Virginia police officer went on trial in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man suspected of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses.