Jackie Bensen is a general assignment reporter for News4. She specializes in reporting breaking news, mostly for News4 at 11.
Bensen joined News4 in 1999 after spending 12 years at WTTG-TV in a variety of roles including news writer, special projects producer and, for the last few years, general assignment reporter. She has also worked for Media General's cable channel and in the Washington Bureau of Outlet Communications.
Bensen is frequently called upon to speak at community and public safety events. She has been a guest lecturer at the FBI's National Training Academy in Quantico. She has also served as grand marshal of the Montgomery County Humane Society's Walk in the Park and the City of Rockville Memorial Day Parade.
A Philadelphia native, Bensen came to Washington to attend American University where she earned a Master's Degree in Journalism and Public Affairs. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
Bensen and her family live in Montgomery County.
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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.
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Baltimore grieves after presumed fatal bridge collapse
News4’s Jackie Bensen reports on the community’s grief and authorities’ responses to the collapse and also spoke to the man whose camera captured the fateful moments.
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‘They're fathers': Loved ones of 6 missing workers hope for a miracle after Baltimore bridge collapse
More than 14 hours after the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in Baltimore, authorities continued search and rescue operations for at least six people who were working on the bridge when it was struck by a container ship early Tuesday.
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‘Monstrous': Woman held captive, raped inside her Virginia business, police say
A Northern Virginia man raped a woman inside her business last week, then attempted to sexually assault a student on a college campus the next day, Fairfax County police said. Kevin Lopez-Altan, 24, of Annandale showed up at an Annandale business before it opened Wednesday and held a 59-year-old woman captive, police said. “He made several efforts to get inside,”…
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Cash-to-gold scammer stole $800K from Montgomery County senior: police
Here’s how police say a scammer fooled a Leisure World of Maryland resident and at least a dozen other Montgomery County seniors.
