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Polls are open Tuesday in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for two special elections. A special primary election will decide who will be in the final running for county executive. Eleven candidates, including eight Democrats and three Republicans, are vying for the position left open after Angela Alsobrooks was elected to the U.S. Senate. De...

Mark your calendar for these key dates for D.C.’s 2025 cherry blossom season, including peak bloom, the Blossom Kite Festival and the parade.

U.S. Capitol Police will temporarily close roads Tuesday around the Capitol as President Donald Trump prepares to give an address before a joint session of Congress. Police released this list of road closures. The following roads will be closed to the public Tuesday from 12:01 a.m. until the end of the event: The following roads will be closed to.....

Fencing was put up ahead of President Trump’s joint address at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Road closures will be in effect until the end of the president’s address. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports. 

A security guard working inside a Hyattsville McDonald’s has been charged with murder after police say he shot a man during a fight Saturday night. Police say the security guard initiated the fight after the man refused to leave the restaurant, hitting the unarmed man with a baton before shooting him once in the chest. It all began after...

“It was the hardest thing of my life.” Sheila Caldwell spoke about days spent sitting through the trial of Markus Dowdy, 34, of Silver Spring, listening as prosecutors described a previous dispute between Dowdy and her late son Marvin Jefferson, also 34. They got into a fistfight where Jefferson allegedly got the better of Dowdy, and video of the f...

D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson spoke with members of the Dupont Circle Citizens Association, covering on a wide variety of topics and trying to ease some concerns. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Two D.C. police officers convicted in the 2020 death of Karon Hylton-Brown have been reinstated, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The Nationals and Baltimore Orioles ended a legal fight over television rights dating to 2012 when Major League Baseball announced Washington will be freed from its deal with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network after the upcoming season. MLB said Nationals’ games will be broadcast by MASN in 2025 under a new, one-year contract. As part of the settlemen...

An off-duty federal law enforcement officer shot and killed a 61-year-old man in Stafford County, Virginia, during a fight about motorcyclists driving recklessly in the man’s neighborhood. But the victim wasn’t one of the motorcyclists — he was a neighbor. About 6:25 p.m. Friday, a man was revving his off-road motorcycle up and down an otherw...

A French bulldog named Major, who belongs to a Metropolitan Police Department officer and his wife, is missing after being stolen in Fort Dupont on Feb. 17. Kenyatta Smith, the officer’s sister-in-law, was walking 7-year-old Major and her own dog on the trail in Fort Dupont Park. When they exited the trail, Smith said she was leashing the dogs when...

Arlington residents woke up to ICE enforcement activity on their street where at least one person was handcuffed and detained. Also on The News4 Rundown: D.C’s mayor reacts to the budget shortfall ahead.

Residents of an Arlington community woke up Monday to immigration enforcement activity on their street. Video sent to News4 shows what appears a man being handcuffed and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an apartment complex on 4th Street North. Telemundo 44 spoke with a man who said he saw it happen. “He was getting in his car, an...