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As data breaches proliferate and fraud losses rise, some consumer protection advocates want to update federal banking laws to include victims tricked into sending money to scammers.

Health leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland, say some students are taking fentanyl on purpose. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on an upcoming community forum to help educate students and families.

There’s serious criticism in a Northeast D.C. community about plans to build a new pedestrian bridge. News4’s Adam Tuss explains.

A 16-year-old boy was killed and another teen seriously hurt when suspects in a stolen car opened fire on the teens as they rode a motor bike Tuesday night in Southeast D.C., police say. D.C. police said the gunmen shot the teens near Alabama Plaza, a strip mall near the Suitland Parkway. Traev’on Green, of Southeast, died in the...

A Virginia woman was found guilty of murder in the 2018 shootings of her two daughters.

The Kennedy Center’s RiverRun Festival will feature performances, education and art based on the world’s rivers. The Scene’s Tommy McFly has a preview.

The family of Timothy Johnson, the man shot by Fairfax County Police near Tyson’s Corner Center in February, says body cam video shows he was unarmed and posed no threat when two officers opened fire.

D.C. Fire and EMS said the fire was in the woods near Beach Drive at Piney Branch Parkway NW. More firefighters went to Quincy Street NW to catch up to the fire there and keep it away from homes in the area, fire officials said.

A new IKEA store is opening in Arlington, Virginia, this summer.

Six people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway and struck construction workers there, Maryland State Police said Wednesday.

Cherry-themed food and drink specials are as much of a D.C. springtime tradition as crowds at the Tidal Basin and tourists standing on the left.