Maryland

Police arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of an anti-gun violence advocate outside of a restaurant in Largo, Maryland, early Saturday.

Commuters who rely on a park-and-ride lot in Bowie, Maryland, say the lot’s lights have been out for weeks and they don’t feel safe there after dark. Dozens of people leave their cars at the lot on Northview Drive every day to take public transit to D.C. and elsewhere. At 5:45 p.m. Monday, a News4 crew went to the...

One person is dead after a home went up in flames in Boyds, Maryland early Tuesday morning. The house was in a nonhydrant area and firefighters had to work through excessive hoarding to reach the second floor. 

The Montgomery County Police Department may soon face greater staffing challenges as dozens of officers are eligible for retirement in 2025 and recruitment efforts aren’t sufficient to make up the difference. The department briefed Montgomery County Council members Monday on the shortages they face. “The shortage is not new,” Assistant Chief Darren Francke said. “We just now happen to be…

An organization that gives hands-on baking experience to people with learning disabilities is expanding to also teach cooking techniques. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

Angela Alsobrooks has resigned from her county executive post as she prepares to be sworn into the U.S. Senate. News4’s Darcy Spencer explains what will come next.

The Montgomery County Police Department may soon face greater staffing challenges as dozens of officers are eligible for retirement in 2025 and recruitment efforts aren’t sufficient to make up the difference. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

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Angela Alsobrooks has resigned from her post as county executive for Prince George’s County, Maryland, weeks after winning a U.S. Senate seat.

A Prince George’s County community leader was shot and killed outside a restaurant in Largo, Maryland Saturday. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

A cherished community leader who sought to prevent gun violence died after he was shot Saturday outside a restaurant in Largo, Maryland. Prince George’s County police responded to the 9600 block of Lottsford Court at 12:45 a.m. to a report of gunshots. When police arrived on the scene, they found Cornelius McDonald, of Upper Marlboro, suffering from gunshot wounds. McDonald…

Watkins Park in Prince George’s County flipped the switch on its much loved Festival of Lights. 

When Daniel Franklin began his post as police chief in the small town of Morningside, Maryland, he quickly realized people were struggling. News4’s Paul Wagner shows how Franklin and others in the town banded together to do something about it.

A 58-year-old man was shot and killed in Laurel, Maryland, Tuesday night, police say. Jerome Stocks was found suffering from gunsot wounds in the 12000 block of Silverbirch Lane about 9 p.m., Prince George’s County police said. Stocks died at the scene. Police arrested 31-year-old Darius Jackson of Oxon Hill and charged him with first- and second-degree murder. Stocks and…

A mother of three was killed in a hit-and-run Friday night on a Maryland road nicknamed “the highway of death.” Loretta Lynn Canter, 40, was hit in the northbound lanes of Route 210 near Farmington Road in Accokeek about 9:50 p.m. Friday, Prince George’s County police said. “We’re very devastated and we’re very, just so upset on her passing...

A mother of three was killed in a hit-and-run Friday night on a Maryland road nicknamed “the highway of death.” News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to her family. (CORRECTION: Route 210 Traffic Safety Committee started tracking highway deaths in 2007, not 2017 as was stated in this report.)

A woman charged with hitting and killing a WSSC Water employee while he was working in Montgomery County, Maryland, had a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit and officers found a half-empty bottle of alcohol in her front passenger seat, police say.

A 7-year-old boy riding on a Maryland highway with his grandmother climbed out of his car seat, fell out a window, and was hit and killed by an oncoming car whose driver sped off, authorities say.

A 7-year-old boy riding in a car with his grandmother climbed out of his car seat, fell out a window, and was hit and killed by an oncoming car whose driver sped off, Maryland State Police say, sharing new details about the tragedy.

The parents of a Charles County, Maryland, second grader injured in a school bathroom incident plan to sue the school system. School officials say an alleged accident during horseplay left the boy hanging on a stall hook at Barnhart Elementary School in Waldorf a week-and-a-half ago. He had to be rushed to the hospital. The family says they’re still...