PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — In just six days, the $1 million budgeted for Virginia’s witness protection program kicks in. The Commonwealth has had a program on the books since 1994, but never the funding ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Operation Bold Blue Line on Monday. Right now, the Commonwealth doesn’t have a funded Witness Protection Program. “There is really nothing else that ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Earley and Gerald Shur’s nonfiction book WitSec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program is being developed for TV at HBO, from Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment. Justin ...

NORFOLK, Va. — News 3 has been investigating the lack of funds to protect witnesses in the state of Virginia for more than two years now. Many times, a witness of a crime wants to cooperate with law ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Witness intimidation is "nothing new," according to Portsmouth Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Morales. In an interview Wednesday, she said state leaders need to move forward with ...

More than 7,500 witnesses and their families have been relocated over the years. Oct. 26, 2007 — -- Wearing glasses and a mock turtleneck, his temples graying, Carmine Sessa looked more like a ...

For the second year in a row, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that went unfunded for the first nine years of its existence.

NORFOLK, Va. — Tuesday marked two years since the deadly shooting outside Chicho’s Pizza Backstage in Downtown Norfolk. Sierra Jenkins, Malik Harris and Marquel Andrews died in the shooting. Two ...

The Obama administration has been juggling controversies all week. And today, watchdogs at the Justice Department added another to the list. The inspector general released a report citing significant ...

Administrators of the U.S. witness protection program are holding a conference with their foreign counterparts this week, helping them devise similar protections for witnesses who could be targeted ...

Jackee Taylor has been in the US Witness Protection Program since she was 7. Now 51, Taylor is opening up about how difficult her life has been because of the program. She didn't ask to be a part of ...