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News4’s Tony Perkins speaks to Washington Nationals Philanthropies CEO Tal Alter about the team’s fundraising efforts, plus how fans can join in while having some fun.

A woman was taken into custody at midnight Thursday after a standoff with police on Richmond Highway (Route 1) in the Hybla Valley area that shut down the road for 36 hours, Fairfax County police said.

Months after the Virginia attorney general announced an investigation into how Fairfax County Public Schools notified students who received a national merit certificate, the school system is releasing results of its own third-party investigation. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Three men were shot on Georgia Avenue in Northwest D.C. on Wednesday night.

Spotsylvania’s superintendent informed parents 14 books, including Pulitzer Prize-winning “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, will be removed from public school libraries this week due to sexual content.

Ashely Sowls is making history as the first African American prosecutor for St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Sowls said she didn’t realize until after she’d taken the job that she was breaking that barrier. She joined the state’s attorney’s office in January. “It means progress. It means the ability to reach back, and, hopefully...

Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets showing a poster promoting a “trans day of vengeance” protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Republican members of Congress are coming after another Washington, D.C., law. The News4 Rundown has more on this and other stories.

A U.S. Senate staffer is recovering after he was stabbed in a random attack Saturday night in Northeast D.C.

A suspected retail thief stole a car and struck four vehicles while making a getaway Wednesday afternoon in Southeast D.C.

Several children were inside a Southeast D.C. apartment Wednesday when police say a masked man shot two men, killing one of them. The shooting happened inthe 3000 block of 30th Street just after noon. Police said the wounded man is stable. His mother told News4 he was shot in both feet. Ward 8 Council Member Trayon White came to the…

A D.C. mother says her two sons were the victims of crime and harassment on Metro recently while going home from school, and she’s concerned for their safety.

Two teenagers who tried to carjack a man didn’t get far when they car they stole was a manual transmission and they didn’t know how to drive it.