WATCH: Mourners remember Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly

By WTOP Staff
May 27, 2025 | 11:00 AM

Funeral services for the late Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly were held Tuesday at the Heritage Fellowship Church in Reston. Flags in the state of Virginia have been ordered by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to be flown at half-staff in Connolly’s honor.

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Connolly died at home on May 21 after battling an esophageal cancer diagnosis, his family announced at the time. The Democrat was first elected to represent the state’s 11th Congressional District in 2008. He is survived by his wife and daughter, among other close relatives.

‘He was Fairfax’: Va. Rep. Gerry Connolly, Democratic political fixture, dies at 75

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Virginia man charged with impersonating a police officer at a police station

By Ian Crawford
August 22, 2026 | 4:17 PM

Police in Prince William County, Virginia, have arrested a man who they say was trying to pass himself off as a cop. And he picked the one place his story was least likely to fly: at a police station. Officers said the man, later identified as Matthew Bailey Thompson, 45, of Manassas, showed up at the gate to a secure parking lot at their central police station on Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge around 7 p.m. Wednesday. He tried to get into the lot by telling them that he was an officer, too.

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