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Both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students organized events marking the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

University of Maryland students on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict marked a year since the attack that killed 1,200 in Israel. Pro-Palestinian students had to sue to stop the university from blocking their Monday night vigil. They say it was a matter of free speech, but some Jewish students are concerned about the timing of that event.  On campus…

University of Maryland students on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict are leading events marking a year since the attack that killed 1,200 in Israel. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke with students on campus.

Thousands of people in the D.C. area will mark one year since the Hamas terror attacks in Israel, when Hamas militants killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 250 hostages. News4’s Megan McGrath reports on what to expect in our area.

Ernesto Ramon Mercado is accused of raping six women in D.C. and near the University of Maryland. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

A man has been arrested years after police say he repeatedly broke into women’s homes and sexually assaulted them in D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood and near the University of Maryland.

A federal judge ruled the University of Maryland must allow pro-Palestinian students to hold an interfaith vigil Oct. 7, the day marking one year since the Hamas attack in Israel. The group Students for Justice in Palestine sued UMD for civil rights violations after the school banned all student-run events for Oct. 7, citing safety concerns. “Free speech as guaranteed…

A federal judge ruled the University of Maryland must allow pro-Palestinian students to hold an interfaith vigil Oct. 7, the day marking one year since the Hamas attack in Israel. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Gov. Wes Moore put on a jersey and helmet to participate in football practice with the University of Maryland.

News4’s Eun Yang spoke with Dan Robertson from University of Maryland’s dairy to get the inside scoop on how its delicious treats came to be.

From a logistical, academic standpoint, it might make sense. But convincing Metro riders is another matter entirely.

A professor at UMD has spent the past year studying whether “stand right, walk left” is the best way for people to use the Metro escalators, and he came to a conclusion that some may find controversial. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

Maryland state police have identified the pilot who died flying a small plane to the Easton Airport as 56-year-old Robert Eugene Merlini of Annapolis, Maryland. News4’s Molette Green reports. 

Sister duo Brooke DeBerdine and Emma DeBerdine are trading College Park, Maryland for Paris to continue their joint journey in field hockey for Team USA. News4’s Jummy Olabanji talks to the DeBerdine sisters and their coach Missy Meharg about their path from UMD to the Olympics.  

A locally developed space project designed to help fight global warming will soon be back in action on the International Space Station. Known as the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), the laser makes three-dimensional maps of Earth’s forests – data that is used to measure how much carbon those forests store and would release if burned. The $94 million laser,…

A locally developed space project designed to help fight global warming will soon resume its mission on the International Space Station. News4 I-Team reporter Ted Oberg reports the climate change tool was set to be destroyed in recent years until lawmakers intervened.

A research project reveals the University of Maryland’s ties to slavery. News4’s Dominique Moody reports on its findings and the school’s connection to historic communities in College Park.

“When we’re accepted into American University, they want leaders on campus, and when we as leaders protest and do acts like this, they can’t stand it … can’t stand to see us stand up for all the things happening in the world and in our country,” said Arusa Islam, junior vice president for AU’s student government.

D.C.-area college students are standing in solidarity with students from Columbia and New York universities who have been staging encampments and demonstrations against Israel’s war with Hamas. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

The lawsuit claims the university infringed upon thousands of students’ civil rights’ when the school suspended Greek Life for a few weeks last month, and banned the organizations from speaking to each other.