Virginia teacher back on job after exchange with student

By The Associated Press
February 9, 2020 | 6:51 PM

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach middle school teacher is back on the job after he was placed on leave when a video of a confrontation with a student circulated online.

WAVY-TV reports that Karl Whitley returned to the classroom Thursday at Kempsville Middle School. Whitley, a 30-year teaching veteran, was placed on leave in January after a video showed him engaging with a student in his eighth-grade civics class.

In the video, he pulls AirPods out of the student’s ears after telling him to remove them several times. His students came to his defense after he was put on leave.

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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