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Cellphones and car devices can accidentally call 911: Here's why you shouldn't hang up
Here’s what alerts your technology can send and how to handle when it’s a false alarm.
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Smart devices make accidental 911 calls, emergency communications centers say
Local emergency service providers are receiving accidental 911 alerts from people’s smart phones and watches. News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke with the director of one of the area’s largest communication centers about the problem.
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‘Bullets were flying': Videos show shooter unload gunfire into DC neighborhood
An 18-year-old suspect is custody after video captured the shooting in D.C.’s Hill neighborhood, police say.
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Temporary Port of Baltimore shipping channel opening for the weekend
Another temporary shipping channel will open for the weekend to allow commercially essential ships to access the vital Port of Baltimore, which was crippled when the Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by a container ship and crumbled into the Patapsco River, killing six road workers. The Fort Carroll Temporary Alternate Channel will open Saturday morning and remain in operation…
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‘Nobody's going to shut me down': Israeli flags stolen twice from house in Woodbridge
A Virginia man says the Israeli flag flying in front of his home has been taken down twice in the past four months. Dan Oxenburg’s Israeli flag and American flag were removed from his home in the Mount High neighborhood of Woodbridge about 5 a.m. Saturday. Security video shows a person in a hooded sweatshirt pulling the large flag...
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Man accused of assaulting teen was on sex offender registry; woman tried to intervene before attack
A man under arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Rockville, Maryland, last week is on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry for a similar crime, News4 has learned.
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Man accused of sexually assaulting girl he followed off Metrobus in Aspen Hill; More victims sought
A man was arrested for allegedly luring a minor into the woods and sexually assaulting her in Montgomery County, and police are worried there may be other victims.
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Family believes Maryland man was killed helping employee remove disruptive men from restaurant
The family of a man stabbed at a Maryland restaurant says he was always quick to intervene and help when he saw someone was about to get harmed, and they believe that quality led to his death. The family told Telemundo 44 they think 23-year-old Lusvin España of Hyattsville died trying to stop two men causing trouble at El Paraiso…
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Opioid overdose deaths in DC reached new high in 2023, report says
A new report from the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shows opioid overdose deaths in the District hit a record high last year. The medical examiner’s office studied 2,595 opioid-related deaths from 2017 through 2023. In 2023, there were 518 opioid overdose deaths in the District, according to the report. That marked a 12% increase from 2022, amounting to 43 deaths…
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Caught on camera: Burglar creeps into Lanham apartment while residents sleep
Four similar crimes have occurred at apartments within a neighborhood in Lanham, Maryland.