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A former deputy in Fairfax County, Virginia, was sentenced to six years in prison for trafficking women and conspiring to distribute drugs and other contraband to a jail inmate in exchange for bribe payments, prosecutors say.

A group of high school students were waiting at their bus stop in a neighborhood of Accokeek, Maryland, early Thursday morning, when two men tried to rob them — and one of the suspects fired a gun, police say. The two suspects pulled up to the kids in a blue Hyundai about 6:40 a.m. in the 15900 block of Livingston…

Metro has finished installing new, taller fare gates at all stations. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports on how the barriers are making a difference in the crackdown on people who avoid paying for their rides.

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The National Park Service plans to add 12 more public bathrooms near the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. The project will be discussed on Oct. 3. 

Girl Scout cadette Emma Fischer decided to do a children’s book drive for the INOVA Cares for Children in Falls Church, Virginia where she collected 650 books. News4’s Molette Green talks to the 11-year-old about why she did the book drive. 

A 13-year-old was found with a loaded gun in a lunchbox Wednesday at a Waldorf, Maryland, middle school, the sheriff’s office said. School administrators at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School were told about 12:40 p.m. that a student had a gun, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said. A school resource office found the student and found the loaded we...

Imagine getting an email that contains your name, a picture of the front of your house and the words, “I’m watching your dirty behavior.” Maryland State Police are warning people about a blackmail scam. Potential victims are asked for large sums of money in Bitcoins. The scammer demands money in order to keep their internet search history from bein...

A bold burglary was caught on camera Monday morning. A truck slammed into a Giant grocery store in Germantown as a group of thieves tried to steal money from an ATM. “What’s going on? Who would do that?” said shopper Sadei Mosely. “That’s crazy. What if somebody got hit?” “Shocking to see the whole truck inside of the store...

The Commanders won their first game since Nov. 5, defeating the Giants. Team insider JP Finlay recaps. Plus, What They’re Saying and the Mailbag.

A grant program is helping bring downtown D.C. back to life by luring new business. The first Vitality Grant was awarded in Jan. 2023. Since the program launched, $2.06 million has been given to six companies, resulting in 813 jobs and 143,475 square feet of leased office space. Travis Rush, CEO of association management firm Kellen, said the proxi...

A video shows a man inside a D.C. business berating a delivery driver for speaking Spanish instead of English. Also on The News4 Rundown: Storm Team4 has the forecast on a rainy Wednesday.

A man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for leading police on a high-speed chase that prosecutors in Virginia called the worst case of eluding they’ve seen in a decade. The afternoon of Oct. 30, Joseph Christopher Daniel fled in a stolen Hummer when Loudoun County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about suspicious activity near......

D.C. police are investigating after the release of a video that appears to show a delivery driver being berated inside a business by an unidentified person for not speaking English. Police said they’re investigating the incident as potentially being motivated by hate or bias. In the video on TikTok, a man can be heard berating the delivery driver i...