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The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department has received a grant to provide early cancer screenings to all of its members. Firefighters have a 9% higher risk of getting cancer and a 14% higher chance of dying from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Being in the fire service, you always hear cancer, but in my&#...

Firsthand accounts of the chaos that unraveled during Wednesday’s Metro station shootings. Free tools to help improve finances. And a look back at the year since the Washington Football Team was rebranded the Commanders.

A teenage boy is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times in Germantown, Maryland, Thursday evening, police say. Officers found the 16-year-old boy in the 13300 block of Demetrias Way about 4:15 p.m., Montgomery County police said. Medics took him to a hospital. Two possible suspects were seen running from the area, police said. Polic...

Prince George’s County is getting a major infusion of federal dollars to improve street safety. The county has led the area in the number of road fatalities over the past five years. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss has details on how the county plans to make the roads safer for all.

The former longtime leader of the Prince George’s County NAACP has died. Bob Ross was a civil rights leader and activist for decades and was well respected in the community and beyond. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on his work and his legacy.

For more than fifty years, Wolf Trap has brought fans into a performance environment like no other, and the upcoming summer season has some new additions. News4’s Tommy McFLY has a preview.

After a string of carjackings in Crystal City, business owners are demanding a stronger police presence. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

The man accused of shooting and killing a Metro employee and injuring three others during a rampage at the Potomac Avenue Metro station on Wednesday has a criminal history and suffers from mental illness, according to police records and his lawyer on a separate case. D.C. police records show officers responded to Isaiah Trotman’s home in Sout...

Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the hit podcast “Serial,” appeared in court Thursday in Maryland, where a three-judge panel considered whether the victim’s family experienced improper treatment when a Baltimore court overturned Syed’s conviction last year, allowing his release after more than two decades behind bars....

The former principal of the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher was not aware of reports that the student had a gun before the shooting occurred. That’s according to her lawyer who provided a brief statement to reporters on Thursday. Briana Foster Newton was principal at Richneck Elementary in Newport News on the da...

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A man from Silver Spring, Maryland, was arrested and charged with murdering his wife after police say he walked into a police station and told officers they would find her body in their home. Dennis Morris Hinnant Jr., 29, went to the Rockville City Police just before 1 a.m. on Wednesday and asked to speak with a homicide detective, Montgomery&#823...

D.C.’s most famous marmot, Potomac Phil, predicted an early spring and six more months of political gridlock on Groundhog Day 2023.