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Food blogger Brittany Osazuwa witnessed two men trying to break into her home during an Instagram live interview. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A woman found in a burning apartment in Southeast D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood Sunday was shot to death, police said Monday.

Photography is a language more universal than words, and portraits are a window to a person’s soul. News4’s Aimee Cho reports on project aimed at capturing the history and beauty of Anacostia one free portrait at a time.

The auction and the gallery include art pieces created by local artists of Ward 7 and Ward 8.

In the 2000 block of MLK Avenue in Southeast D.C., a new mural celebrates the Crown Act. The new act, passed in a dozen states like Maryland and Virginia, prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s natural hairstyle or texture. The mural was collaboratively sponsored by the JOY Collective and MuralsDC. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated Earth Day by announcing a new program where people can use canoes and kayaks on the Anacostia River for free.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated Earth Day on the Anacostia River announcing a new program where people can use canoes and kayaks for free. News4’s Mark Segraves explains how the program is designed to enlist citizen scientists to track the amount of trash in the river.

Police in D.C. scoured a neighborhood near the Anacostia Metro station after a man was shot on the platform, and then a barricade situation unfolded nearby. News4’s Shomari Stone has the details.

A teacher at Ballou S.T.A.Y. High School and matriarch of a tight-knit D.C. family died of COVID-19 over the weekend, the school announced Monday.

News4’s Tommy McFly and Jummy Olabanji share the best places to be this weekend in D.C., including the Alexandria Warehouse sale and events at the Anacostia Community Museum.

The man accused of murdering a soon-to-be college grad in D.C. was arrested just several weeks prior on a gun charge. News4’s Pat Collins has the latest in the case.

After an outbreak of violence in a market in Southeast D.C., a family mourns a hardworking, young man. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

One person has died after a shooting inside a store at 14th Street and Good Hope Road SE. Police are looking for four persons of interest, News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A man suspected in a shooting in which a 22-year-old college student was killed and four others were injured inside a market in Southeast D.C. Monday morning had been picked up on a gun-related charge last month.  Terrance Oxner of Manassas, Virginia, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed.  D.C. police and medics were called to 14th...

The pandemic has been tough for nearly all businesses, but Black-owned businesses have been hit especially hard. News4’s Aimee Cho spoke with some business owners in Anacostia about how they’re faring.

The pandemic has been tough for nearly all businesses, but Black-owned businesses have been hit especially hard. The New York Times found during the first phase of PPP, three quarters of loans went to businesses in majority-white areas. Along a stretch of Good Hope Road in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, small business owners say sales have been slow. “We were...

Six years after Relisha Rudd’s disappearance, her family and friends haven’t given up hope — and a new age progression photo shows what the D.C. girl may look like at 14 years old.

A new development will bring hundreds of new jobs to Anacostia. It will be called the MLK Gateway. News4’s Mark Segraves takes us inside the project that’s expected to transform the area.

A 4-year-old girl is in serious condition after a car struck her outside her school in Southeast D.C. News4’s Pat Collins reports the driver took off, but then had a change of heart.

A 4-year-old is critically injured after a car hit the child in a school parking lot in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood Tuesday night, fire officials say.