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It’s a new era for the Washington Spirit women’s soccer team as they just announced Magic Johnson will be joining as a part owner. Johnson and majority owner Michelle Kang paid a visit to Ida B. Wells Middle School on Friday.

Authorities say a student at a Maryland high school has died after being shot by another student during a dispute in a bathroom at Joppatowne High School. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler identified the victim in Friday’s shooting as 15-year-old Warren Curtis Grant. They identified the shooter as a 16-year-old fellow student who fled immedi...

After a man and a group of middle-school-aged girls beat a 64-year-old man to death in D.C. this fall, the girls walked away in a “celebratory” mood, a detective testified that video footage shows. Reggie Brown died after he was brutally assaulted on Georgia Avenue NW early the morning of Oct. 17, 2023. A Metropolitan Police Department detective de...

A hazmat evacuation is in effect in Herndon, Virginia after police issued a search and arrest warrant. Herndon Police Captain Steve Pihonak spoke to News4 about the developing story.

In a court filing this week, one-time D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens denied any wrongdoing while prosecuting hundreds of protesters arrested in D.C. during Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

A man convicted for a crash that killed two teen girls walking home from school in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2022 was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

News4’s Joseph Olmo has what to know about the annual D.C. Bike Ride.

White, who represents Ward 8, is accused of agreeing to accept $156,000 in exchange for using his position to pressure employees of the D.C. Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) and the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) to extend several contracts, prosecutors said. He’s chair of a D.C. Council committee that ov...

A Prince George’s County planning board approved plans to build a logistics warehouse in Fort Washington, disappointing residents who oppose the project.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released age-progressed images of Sarah and Jacob Hoggle, showing what the siblings may look like now.

WSSC has completed work on a water main that required people living in southern Prince George’s County, Maryland to limit water use.

Finding a viable trial defense hasn’t been easy for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Their arguments aren’t swaying jurors who are hearing testimony and viewing evidence. Of the nearly 100 riot defendants who have elected to a trial by jury, none has been fully acquitted. A retired New York police officer, Thomas Webster, was the first C...

News4’s Trinity Rodman sits down with News4’s Jummy Olabanji to reflect on the mindset that helped her win gold with the USWNT at the Paris Olympics, plus shares her next goal. “This whole experience, this whole season has been very hard, and I’ve worked very hard, but at the same time, it’s been so much fun.”

The latest stats on hunger in the D.C. area show that people in almost every neighborhood who are struggling to find their next meal. In Prince George’s County, SHABACH! Ministries, Inc. helps tens of thousands of people every year to get food, diapers and clothing. News4’s Molette Green reports live from the Empowerment Center in Landover.