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An Alaska Airlines plane blew a tire while taking off from Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Thursday and was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles. Passengers braced for a rough ride but the Boeing 737-900 ultimately landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), its scheduled final destination, just after 8 p.m. ...

Fifty mothers are donating their purses to an emergency shelter for unhoused people in Capitol Heights. News4’s Molette Green joins her Jack and Jill of America, Inc. chapter for the Pack a Purse service event.  

Howard University is striving to regain a prestigious distinction for a research university known as R1 status. The American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching gives the classification to universities with high research activity. Howard became the first and only historically Black university with the status...

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportations during his campaign, and sources familiar with the plan tell NBC News the incoming administration is already making plans. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

The head of the D.C. Public Health Association raised concerns about maternal mortality, diabetes and hypertension after anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was tapped to lead the nation’s health department. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A Fairfax County, Virginia, judge sentenced a man to life in prison for shooting and killing his friend before shooting a stranger, blinding that man. Kebbren Leigh-Gaye, who was just 18 years old, died after the shooting on Jan. 8, 2022, on Richmond Highway (Route 1) at Dart Drive, in the Hybla Valley area. He was a friend of the…

Capital Pride Alliance announced the theme for WorldPride taking place in the District next year. Three million people are expected to travel to the DMV in May for “The Fabric of Freedom.” “The concept of freedom is what we knew a couple of years ago that we wanted to build toward,” Capital Pride Alliance Board President Ashley Smith said. Organize...

Capital Pride Alliance announces the theme for WorldPride taking place in the District next year. Also on The News4 Rundown: Montgomery County Public Schools looks to address a shortage of speech pathologists.

The Prince George’s County Council passed a bill to give seniors a break on their property taxes, but some are raising questions about the cost and confusion over how it would work. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Online job listings for Montgomery County Public Schools show Ashburton Elementary is one of eight schools looking for an SLP who can start immediately.

Protections for reproductive rights, marriage equality and the restoration of voting rights for some felons could be enshrined in the Virginia state Constitution, if a measure begun on Wednesday in the state’s General Assembly is seen through to the end.

Police say as far back as December of last year, Portillo began sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl and at one point, according to a charging document, “claimed” her as his “girlfriend.”

News4 alum Craig Melvin will co-anchor the Today Show in 2025. News4’s Eun Yang shares his D.C. connections.

For the first time since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ted Leonsis reached a $500 million deal to keep the Capitals and Wizards in D.C., the public got a chance to weigh in. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.