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Friends and family of Aiden Vining got a chance to speak for him, and about him, at Monday’s sentencing for Cesar Alexander Lopez, 26, of Hyattsville, Maryland. Last November, Lopez pleaded guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for selling counterfeit Percocet found to be laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl. Aiden Vining, who was 17, was found unres...

Maryland lawmakers ended the legislative session Monday night, approving a $67 billion budget that includes $1.6 billion in tax and fee increases, as well as cuts to erase a structural deficit. State legislators faced a $3.3 billion deficit and hundreds of millions in cuts from the Trump administration. The approved budget includes a 3% IT services...

Some people rallying outside OPM claimed the Trump administration fired them because of training programs they participated in under the previous leadership. Also on The News4 Rundown: Additional tariffs on China are scheduled to take effect at midnight.

Two eye-opening reports released Tuesday are raising concerns about safety on Metro. One details how two trains came within 400 feet of a head-on collision, and another could delay automatic train operation from moving beyond the Red Line. Safety investigators said a communication breakdown led to the close call between two trains that ended up on ...

Three people died and three others were taken to hospitals after a shooting in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

Changes to the federal government’s guidance on fluoride in drinking water nationwide could have impacts on the D.C. region. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to stop recommending fluoridation in drinking water nationwide. He’s creating a task force to study the issue. The ...

A former Department of Education worker says she was let go for doing what she was told to do on the job. At a rally outside the Office of Personnel Management Tuesday, Qua Crowner said she was laid off for participating in a diversity, equity and inclusion training course she was instructed to take under the previous administration. “We foll...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. The goal is to make D.C. “the pride of every American to whom it belongs,” according to the White House. The task force, which the White House said will include members of “key government agencies,” is directed to increase police presence ...

Almost a month after a Maryland man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, the Supreme Court is considering his case. Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation and the legal battle that has followed is being seen as a test case on the Trump administration’s deportation authority. The Supreme C...

Metro’s general manager, Randy Clarke, is expected to stay in D.C. for a while longer.  At a meeting scheduled for Thursday, Metro’s board is set to amend Clarke’s employment agreement with the transit agency, and News4 has learned Clarke will sign a contract extension.  The exact details of the contract extension are not yet avai...

News4 is sharing this message from Leon Harris: “Many of you have kindly asked about me over the past few months. As you know, I took time off to focus on my health and family. After 40+ years of nonstop work and the dramatic changes in the news and television industry, I’ve made the difficult decision to step away from…

“We’re here to say no.” Protesters rallied at a Medicaid March in D.C. on Tuesday. One Medicaid recipient explained how the health care gave her treatment she needed to be able to walk again and finish her degree. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Some Democratic-led states and cities are pushing back on a Trump administration threat to cut education funding over diversity, equity and inclusion programs, creating a standoff that could test how far the White House is willing to go to press its demands on the nation’s schools. State leaders in Minnesota and New York said they will not comply w...

The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes.