A memorial service will be held later this month for the former Shenandoah County Sheriff’s deputy who died in the line of duty in May while conducting a criminal investigation for a New Mexico police department.

WOODSTOCK — The Mount Jackson man who didn’t return to custody after being allowed to leave the Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren County Jail for a doctor’s appointment was arrested Saturday.

FRONT ROYAL — Three Front Royal residents have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries and thefts from local businesses, according to the Front Royal Police Department.

WOODSTOCK — More charges have been filed against the Front Royal man accused of possessing child pornography he obtained while working at an afterschool camp in Shenandoah County.

A Shenandoah County man has escaped from Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren Regional Jail custody, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Office.

Former Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Executive Director Jennifer Rae McDonald now faces federal fraud and money laundering charges and, if convicted, could serve at least two years in prison.

WOODSTOCK - In October 2020, Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were shot at by a Woodstock man with a rifle.

Catalytic converters are being stolen out of vehicles in Shenandoah County, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Drug overdoses — a nationwide problem that the Centers for Disease Control said increased by 30% in 2020 — remain a problem in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.

A committee made up of lawmakers, law enforcement and addiction professionals is working to create a drug court program in Warren County to provide offenders treatment rather than put them in prison.

FRONT ROYAL — A Front Royal man and New Market woman were arrested after they were found with drugs in a hotel room Tuesday morning.

Criminal incidents fell 10% across Virginia - 338,784 in 2020 from 375,639 in 2019, according to the annual "Crime in Virginia" state police report.

FRONT ROYAL — Tristen Brinklow had been 20 years old for four days before his murder in September 2019.

FRONT ROYAL — It’s a night intended to bring law enforcement and the community together to show they are working as one to prevent crime.

WOODSTOCK‌ ‌— The trial of a Woodstock man accused of beating and sexually assaulting a woman was scheduled for next year by Judge Kevin Black on Wednesday.

WOODSTOCK - A Tennessee man involved in a police pursuit chase that reached speeds of more than 100 mph on I-81 in April has been sentenced to a year in prison after being indicted by a Shenandoah County Circuit Court grand jury earlier this month.

A Front Royal man is facing child pornography charges from the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office.

FRONT ROYAL — The case involving the September 2019 murder of Tristen Brinklow is not going to trial.

Gun-related legislation approved by Virginia's General Assembly last year won't do much to reduce crime, local law enforcement leaders say. 

The Strasburg man who pleaded guilty to helping his son elude police last summer was recently charged by the Bridgewater police department on sex offense charges.

WOODSTOCK — A Mount Solon man was arrested after authorities concluded that DNA evidence linked him to a break-in at an Edinburg residence in March.

FRONT ROYAL — A Front Royal woman was arrested in connection to an alleged Tuesday stabbing near the Royal Arms Apartments off Criser Road.

FRONT ROYAL — Three town residents were arrested last week as part of what the Warren County Sheriff's Office describes as a "theft ring" responsible for stealing six all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) in June.

As of July 1, Virginia became the first Southern state to decriminalize the possession of marijuana. But the new law is a bit confusing, and local law enforcement says it takes a clear head to understand what is and isn’t allowed.

Following the 2020 deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police, protesters across the country took to the streets demanding that police work be done differently.

A Leesburg man was charged Saturday in connection with an overdose that occurred in Front Royal earlier this month.

FRONT ROYAL — A Warren County man who once taught at Christendom College was charged last week by the Warren County Sheriff's Office on sexual assault offenses.

FRONT ROYAL — A Florida man was arrested last month after allegedly sharing sexually explicit material and having consensual sex with a 14-year-old girl in Front Royal in 2019.

A Warren County man was charged Sunday with attempting to set his own house on fire.

WOODSTOCK — A Stuarts Draft man was booked at the regional jail last week as he faces child pornography charges in Shenandoah County after being convicted of similar charges in other jurisdictions.

A police officer and firefighter from Shenandoah County who died Friday in the line of duty in New Mexico is being remembered as a “good guy” with a “servant’s heart” by fellow officers in both the Shenandoah Valley and in New Mexico.

A Front Royal man currently serving a prison sentence for attempting to burglarize the American Legion in 2019 was charged Tuesday with allegedly breaking and entering another establishment in town in October.

A 29-year-old old Mount Jackson man was arrested and charged with soliciting child pornography last week.

The Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren Regional Jail still has more out-of-compliance inmates compared to what it normally has, the Personnel & Finance Committee of the Authority Board discussed at a recent meeting.