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 ...

Virginia’s prolonged budget-amendment process has finally come to a close, resulting in compromises on both sides of the political aisle. As prosecutors, we are glad to see the budget include an ...

To combat gang intimidation of witnesses in criminal trials, Durham County is looking to establish what is believed to be the state's first witness-protection program. The city and county officials ...

A bipartisan General Assembly took an important step to fight crime in our communities last year by finally funding a witness protection program in Virginia. The budget agreement approved in September ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The Flint Police Department has another tool to help fight crime. City leaders gave the green light to spend federal dollars on a witness protection program. It's a program law ...

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 ...

In Lewiston, Maine, a man who called himself Abraham helped his neighbors with the trash and rode dirt bikes with his friend. His old life in New York City got him killed. By Ali Watkins The plea by a ...

A row is brewing between the police and the newly created Witness Protection Unit, The Standard has established. Senior police officers are unhappy the force has been locked out of an interim ...

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 ...

Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon on Thursday clarified that mere submission of a sworn statement is not enough for someone to be accepted into the government’s Witness Protection Program ...