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The NBC4 Allstate Community Shred has been canceled because a snowstorm is expected to hit the D.C. area.

Automakers, dealers and start-ups now offer car subscriptions as an alternative to the traditional financing model, which increasingly involves going into significant debt. The services typically charge a flat monthly fee that bundles together all the disparate expenses of car ownership, including insurance and maintenance. “There’s a reason consumers are gravitating toward these services — what’s out there right now...

Florida’s disjointed property insurance system that relies almost exclusively on small and midsize companies will take a multibillion dollar loss from Hurricane Michael, but has sufficient reserves and backups that providers should be able to pay claims without problems, analysts say. Major national players like State Farm, Allstate and Liberty Mutual write few if any homeowners policies in Florida because...

News4 and Allstate are in Prince George’s County, where residents lined up to get their sensitive documents shredded. News4’s Derrick Ward talks to Allstate agents about why the event is important.

The NBC4 Allstate Community Shred is happening in Montgomery College’s Rockville campus on through 11 a.m. on Saturday. Stop by to have your sensitive documents shredded for free.

Serena Williams says the conversation about stopping domestic abuse shouldn’t just center around women, but men as well.Serena Williams says the conversation about stopping domestic abuse shouldn’t just center around women, but men as well.

Some 60 companies including such leading brands as Subway, Sprint and the NFL are joining forces to help each other follow you around online. Adobe, a company better known for Photoshop and PDF files, says the new Device Co-op initiative it is organizing will help companies offer more personalized experiences and make ads less annoying by filtering out products and...

Young people thrust into activism by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson are leading a new wave of civil disobedience in St. Louis, mentored by a civil rights movement veteran and driven by the belief that change won’t happen until the entire region is confronted with the uncomfortable reality of racism. Protests have been plentiful in St....

A former Prince George’s County school aide charged with taking and sharing cellphone video of children performing sex acts wrote a letter to the judge asking all state charges against him be dropped. Tracee Wilkins reports.