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More than ever before this election year, Virginia election officials are examining whether noncitizens might be voting. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Pop-up Race the District brings go-kart racing to Union Market this weekend. News4’s Tommy McFly tried it out.

Scammers are stealing money from residents who receive SNAP benefits and other public assistance. In the last two years, more than $6.5 million has been stolen in D.C. alone.

As Mamta Kafle Bhatt remains missing from Manassas Park, her husband’s defense attorney challenged some grisly evidence, new court documents show.

Howard University graduate Sydney Satchell was part of Team USA’s victorious seated volleyball team, making her the first Howard alum to win Paralympic gold. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A teenager in Leesburg, Virginia, has been charged with making a series of threatening texts to a crisis line, police say. Texts threatening to harm students came through on Wednesday, Sept. 11, prompting Leesburg police to investigate. Police charged the juvenile with making threats via electronic communications. The threats happened as several Lo...

A former deputy in Fairfax County, Virginia, was sentenced to six years in prison for trafficking women and conspiring to distribute drugs and other contraband to a jail inmate in exchange for bribe payments, prosecutors say.

A group of high school students were waiting at their bus stop in a neighborhood of Accokeek, Maryland, early Thursday morning, when two men tried to rob them — and one of the suspects fired a gun, police say. The two suspects pulled up to the kids in a blue Hyundai about 6:40 a.m. in the 15900 block of Livingston…

Metro has finished installing new, taller fare gates at all stations. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports on how the barriers are making a difference in the crackdown on people who avoid paying for their rides.

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The National Park Service plans to add 12 more public bathrooms near the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. The project will be discussed on Oct. 3. 

Girl Scout cadette Emma Fischer decided to do a children’s book drive for the INOVA Cares for Children in Falls Church, Virginia where she collected 650 books. News4’s Molette Green talks to the 11-year-old about why she did the book drive. 

A 13-year-old was found with a loaded gun in a lunchbox Wednesday at a Waldorf, Maryland, middle school, the sheriff’s office said. School administrators at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School were told about 12:40 p.m. that a student had a gun, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said. A school resource office found the student and found the loaded we...

Imagine getting an email that contains your name, a picture of the front of your house and the words, “I’m watching your dirty behavior.” Maryland State Police are warning people about a blackmail scam. Potential victims are asked for large sums of money in Bitcoins. The scammer demands money in order to keep their internet search history from bein...