Ron Turcotte is the last surviving member of Secretariat's team as he marks the 50th anniversary of their feat with the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
Here are some stories from his life and career, based on a recent interview with The Associated Press.
A Florida man who police say had an AK-47 rifle in his car was arrested outside a northern Virginia preschool after he told officers he was headed to CIA headquarters, police said Wednesday.
Police and fire officials in Arlington, Virginia, say an image that circulated about the Pentagon under attack is not real and there was no incident at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters across the Potomac from the nation’s capital.
A northern Virginia man charged with assaulting two congressional staffers in their Virginia office with a baseball bat is now facing federal charges as well.
Since the politically divided General Assembly's regular session ended in February without an agreement on adjustments to the two-year spending plan that became law last year, budget negotiators have been meeting sporadically to continue talks.
A man with untreated schizophrenia, according to his father, was arraigned Tuesday on charges involving baseball-bat attacks on three women, including two staffers for U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.
Four months after a 6-year-old Virginia boy shot and wounded his teacher as she taught class, an attorney for the boy’s mother said it still is not clear how the boy got the gun.
A military veteran from Virginia who told an undercover FBI agent about his admiration for Adolf Hitler and discussed a plan to “wipe out” the nation's Jewish population was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.
A large snake snarled traffic on May 2 in Manassas, Va.
The Virginia Department of Elections disclosed last week that over a month ago it “inadvertently” shared the state's registered voter list, which contains personal identifying information, with an unnamed individual.
