A mob robbed the Chanel store at Tysons Galleria stealing thousands of dollars of merchandise. The robbery on Tuesday afternoon led to an increased police presence at the upscale shopping center where witnesses reported seeing a group of about six individuals, both men and women, fleeing the store with stolen items worth thousands of dollars. This incident is part of a trend of recent retail thefts and organized smash-and-grab crimes in the region, according to the National Retail Federation.
Thousands of cargo containers are finally being taken off a ship in Portsmouth.Preview: A commuter service that runs from Spotsylvania to Union Station in Washington, D.C. will raise some of its rates next week. Adult passengers on the Virginia Railway Express will pay five-percent more for tickets beginning Monday. The increase amounts to a 65-cent increase for a single-ride ticket on the longest VRE route. Another change happening Monday will allow children 18-years-old and younger to ride free on all VRE trains.
Virginia's Gen Z is in debt. That's according to a new analysis from online marketplace LendingTree. Among those living in the 100 largest metropolitan areas, the median percentage of Gen Zers with debt is just over 97-percent. The median non-mortgage debt of those Gen Zers is over 16-grand. The analysis showed that they were most likely to have credit card debt than any other type, with nearly 81-percent owing money on a card.