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A jeweler with autism opened her store at National Harbor on Autism Awareness Day. News4’s Tommy McFly spoke with her.

Linen World has been a family-run business in Oxon Hill for decades, but the owners say that competition has made it hard to keep going.

A California man’s attorneys say he’ll plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Nicholas John Roske say he intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States at a hearing next week. The char...

A woman who worked for HHS for 33 years said she found out she was fired after her badge didn’t work. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Drivers owe the District more than $1 billion in unpaid traffic and parking fines, but D.C. has has been cracking down on what they call the “high-dollar scofflaws.”

The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s increasing support and oversight for the air traffic controller team at D.C.’s airport two months after the deadly midair collision between an American Airlines plane and Army helicopter. The FAA said it will add two more operational supervisors to the staff, review controller staffing numbe...

While Jonathan Roth’s first passion is art, he incorporates another passion into his children’s books: space. The Montgomery County art teacher explains how some of his children’s books came to be. 

Police are monitoring people who speed or don’t move over for stopped vehicles along Route 29. The goal is to ensure the safety of police officers, emergency responders, and stranded motorists on the side of the road. News4 Transportation Report Adam Tuss reports. 

D.C. nonprofit “Only Make Believe” will host a volunteer event called “Craft for a Cause” to make costumes for kids with disabilities on Saturday. News4’s Molette Green reports. 

What’s something that worries you when you drive along Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway? It’s probably the reversible lanes. The National Park Service is asking commuters to weigh in on improving safety in a meeting on Wednesday. News4’s Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss reports. 

There’s an urgent call to action coming from the steps of Congress. “We have to keep fighting, whether it’s education, whether it’s cuts to government employees,” said Rep. Glenn Ivey, who represents Maryland’s Fourth District. Days after the Department of Education announced it won’t pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief...

Former D.C. Ward 8 Councilman Trayon White kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday by collecting signatures from voters. “Trayon White is Ward 8 make no mistake about that,” Ward 8 resident Darryl Williams said. Signature by signature, White is trying to get his seat back on the D.C. Council after being expelled in February. He filed to run in t...

Federal health employees stood outside in line for hours Tuesday at the Department of Health and Human Service’s Public Health Division office in Rockville, Maryland, where people waited to scan their badge and learn if they still had a job. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to cut about 10,000 jobs from the agency to save taxpaye...

Prince George’s County leaders celebrated the opening of a new human services building Tuesday as part of a wider redevelopment project in Capitol Heights. The building, located in Hampton Park, consolidates health and wellness services that were previously spread throughout the county, putting agencies like social services, family services a...