Prince William County

FAIRFAX, Va. - Over the repeated objections of defense lawyers, a Fairfax County judge set a Nov. 10 trial date yesterday for teen-age sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, who could face the death penalty if convicted in the slaying of an FBI analyst outside...

When Attorney General John Ashcroft selected two Virginia prosecutors yesterday to hold the first trials in the Washington-area sniper attacks, he chose veteran lawyers well-acquainted with the death penalty and high-profile cases. Robert F. Horan, the...

MANASSAS, Va. -- The Maryland man shot as he stopped for gas on his long commute home Wednesday night was confirmed yesterday as the seventh person killed by a roving sniper, whose uncanny ability to disappear after his deadly attacks has bedeviled an...

Contending that the Fairfax County, Va., prosecutors of teen-age sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo are receiving federal help, lawyers for Malvo indicated yesterday that they hope to obtain federal funds toward his capital murder defense. In a highly unusual...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - On the first day of a trial that has attracted worldwide attention, serial sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad stood in a packed courtroom yesterday and answered to charges of capital murder in the death of a Maryland man shot pumping...

The map book - stolen from the Reisterstown Road branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library - could have led investigators straight to their prey. When police searched the parking lot opposite the gas station in Manassas, Va., where last year's serial sniper...

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Lawyers for John Allen Muhammad failed yesterday to prevent a second capital murder trial in Virginia for the convicted sniper, after a judge ruled that another prosecution for his alleged role in the sniper shootings does not constitute...

MANASSAS, Va. - Sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo came face to face in a Virginia courtroom yesterday, looking each other in the eye for the first time since they were charged nearly a year ago in a spate of killings that terrified...

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The Jamaican teen-ager charged in the sniper slayings that sent fear through the Washington region made his first public court appearance Friday, where prosecutors revealed evidence linking him to three of the shooting sites in Virginia...

FAIRFAX, VA. -Prosecutors offered the first details yesterday of their capital murder case against sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, using forensic evidence and a widower's heartrending testimony to argue that the teen-ager should be tried as an adult -...

FAIRFAX, Va. - Attorneys for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo scored a legal win yesterday when they persuaded a judge to turn over to them any statements that the teen-ager has made to authorities about two killings last fall in Virginia. Defense...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - As a dozen relatives of his victims held hands and wept behind him, John Allen Muhammad was found guilty of capital murder yesterday for using a teen-age boy and a beat-up Chevrolet to spread terror and take 10 lives in the...