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Loudoun County is opening two new schools this year, including Watson Mountain Middle School, home of the yetis. “I have a good feeling about it,” one student said. Photojournalist Dave Carter reports.

The thief went through an abandoned building to get into the store to steal $100,000 worth of gold and watches.

Loudoun County Public Schools is opening two new schools, including Watson Mountain Middle School, the new home of the yetis. Principal Lenny Compton welcomes the middle schoolers to the new school and students share their excitement. 

The husband of a Northern Virginia woman who has been missing more than three weeks was taken out of their home in handcuffs on Thursday morning, News4 video shows.

WSSC Water has lifted the essential water use-only request in the Camp Springs area, in Prince George’s County. Crews completed work to connect an existing water main to the main that feeds the Camp Springs water tank Thursday morning. On Aug. 19, the company asked customers to limit their water use to essentials only to avoid issuing a Boil ...

An SUV nearly plunged from the second floor of a parking garage in D.C.’s Tenleytown area on Thursday morning, near Whole Foods Market.

When students return to Tayac Elementary School next week, a new STEM lab will be there to welcome them. News4’s Molette Green and Pepco surprised an art teacher by funding her Donors Choose wish list for the school year. 

News4’s Jummy Olabanji is back from the Paris Olympics! She talked about her favorite moments from the Olympics, brought back some souvenirs for the team and received a welcome back gift. 

News4’s Jummy Olabanji spoke to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis about this week’s deadly shooting at a Reston, Virginia gym, back to school safety and reflects on Fairfax police officers’ experience going to the Paris Olympics. 

The Rapidan Service Authority told residents and businesses in eastern Orange County, Virginia, to stop all water use immediately. The authority said it’s investigating possible contamination after customers reported a strange taste in water and a diesel smell. 

A store was robbed when the thief broke through the wall and created a tunnel. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A Marine Corps veteran who tried to fake his own death after a falling out with a Virginia-based militia group has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of ricin, a biological toxin. Forty-two-year-old Russell Vane of Vienna, Virginia, had been in jail since his arrest in April. At a plea hearing Wednesday in federal court, Vane admitted that he use...

A woman walking home with her groceries was killed in a hit-and-run in Bladensburg, Maryland, Tuesday night, investigators said. The woman was walking on the sidewalk along Bladensburg Road when she was struck, police said. “She was just walking across the bridge, so she was doing what she needed to be doing,” Bladensburg Chief of Police Tyrone Col...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men organized a sit-in at the library. As they expected, staff called police and had the men arrested for daring to read at a whites-only library…....