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Ashley Wang took four AP classes at Oakton High School as a sophomore, she helps lead a tutoring group at school, she’s danced competitively for 11 years, and she was just crowned Miss Virginia Teen USA.

A new Maryland law will prohibit police officers from conducting a search based solely on the odor of marijuana, but critics say that will be bad for public safety.

A shooting victim who survived against all odds shares his story after a conviction in the case. Also in The News4 Rundown: controversy over a new Maryland law that involves the odor of marijuana.

Four bullets from an automatic rifle fired by a virtual stranger tore Jeremy Tammone’s body apart and changed his life forever. The bullets went through his abdomen, almost severed off his stomach and hit his brain, destroying 10 to 15% of his brain matter, he said as he showed News4 his catastrophic injuries. The gunman, Navy veteran Jaeyoung Lee,...

Three years after the murder of George Floyd, police departments are still tackling calls for reform. Prince George’s County’s police chief told News4’s Darcy Spencer changing policing is only part of the solution.

Students in D.C. will be armed with knowledge and ready to deal with periods no matter when they arrive, thanks to new Menstrual Health Education Standards announced Thursday by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

Two men are dead and two others are hospitalized after a shooting at a home in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Voice actors behind the Transformers testified in support of letting three huge Transformers statues remain outside a house in the Georgetown neighborhood — but District officials said they need to go.

On the heels of a record number of overdose deaths, there’s a bipartisan push to tackle the crisis. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine spoke to News4’s Dominique Moody about the plan.

Two Army veterans who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with fellow Oath Keepers members have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Friday sentenced Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, to eight years and six months behind bars and sentenced Kenneth Harrelson...

Kwame Alexander, the author of 39 books, just released his first memoir, “Why Fathers Cry at Night.” He spoke with News4’s Jummy Olabanji about telling his own story for the first time.

From hauling trash to Harvard. A man who once worked as a sanitation worker in Prince George’s County, Maryland, graduated from Harvard Law School on Thursday.

Maryland’s highest court has issued an order to prevent Adnan Syed’s murder conviction from being reinstated by a lower court, as the court decides whether to hear his appeal of the lower court’s decision. Justice Shirley Watts issued the order on Thursday. Syed’s legal case gained international attention from the hit podcast “Serial.” ...