Brookland

The Humane Rescue Alliance and other D.C. agencies received at least a dozen reports of bear sightings within the past month in a Northeast neighborhood where a bear was caught last year. Elizabeth Knox and her kids stopped what they were doing about 7 a.m. Wednesday when they saw a black bear wander through their front yard in Brookland....

Black bear sightings create buzz in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

The heartbroken mother of a middle school student said she won’t stop fighting for justice after he was shot and killed outside a Metro station. News4’s Walter Morris reports. 

Police arrested a 16-year-old suspect in the shooting of a 14-year-old boy at the Brookland Metro station. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in the killing of an eighth grader this month at the Brookland Metro station, D.C. police confirmed. The victim, 14-year-old Avion Evans, attended Ida B. Wells Middle School. He was on his way to an after-school program the afternoon of April 4 when he was fatally shot after stopping to talk with a friend…

Wells sat on the front porch of her Northeast D.C. home Friday and asked a question that at the moment has no answer: Why did the gunman fire into the crowd?

An eighth grader on his way to an after-school program was fatally shot Thursday afternoon after stopping to talk with a friend at a Metro station, the victim’s mother told News4. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A D.C. woman who says her puppy was stolen off her front porch Saturday has reunited with the French bulldog. Teffiney Worthy said Hendrix was taken from her as she approached her Brookland home by someone threatening to kill her if she refused to give the dog up. “Pretty much I felt paralyzed and was just trying to comply...

Police located the stolen puppy of a woman who lost her previous dog in the District Dogs flood. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Not since Rusty the red panda escaped the National Zoo has there been such an attention-grabbing furry fugitive in the District. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.