ASHBURN

The Ashburn Xtreme Hockey Club won a national championship this week with a game-winning goal in overtime by Kyle Tinschert, who honored his late mother at the game.

One year ago, Kyle Tinschert lost his mom and biggest fan to cancer. A year later, he scored his youth hockey team’s winning goal in the national championship. News4’s Erika Gonzalez reports.

An electric vehicle is believed to have started a fire at a home in Virginia that displaced a family and caused an estimated $235,000 in damage, fire officials say.  A malfunctioning Chevrolet Bolt sparked the blaze Saturday morning in Ashburn, a spokeswoman for Loudoun County Fire and Rescue said an initial investigation found.  “Fortunately, there were no injuries as...

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey talks with an Ashburn teen whose poem for Vice President Kamala Harris became the target of a conservative podcaster.

Jason Stacks of Ashburn won the Pat Collins Snow Stick Challenge with an ice sculpture of a hot cup of cocoa.

Persistence pays off.  Jason Stacks of Ashburn, Virginia, competed in the Pat Collins Snow Stick Challenge five times and made the finals twice — and on Tuesday he was declared the big winner.  Jason, 16, won his very own Pat Collins Snow Stick by building a giant mug of hot cocoa out of snow, complete with marshmallows.  He said...

You may not be surprised to find out the D.C. area has some of the rudest drivers in the country. News4’s Adam Tuss explains the rude rankings.

To help themselves and others fight quarantine boredom, two Virginia fifth graders created a student newsletter. Griffin Cogger and Ryan Farman, two Steuart Weller Elementary School students, created The Lansdowne Letter after getting tired of being bored. And they figured they weren’t the only ones, so they got their friends to help. “We assigned jobs to everyone and now...

A group of fifth grade friends created the “Landsdowne Letter,” a newsletter that comes out weekly on Facebook. News4’s Aimee Cho reports

A man facing animal cruelty charges will soon manage a new pet store in Chantilly, Virginia, documents say.

A man who faces animal cruelty charges is opening a new pet store in Chantilly, Virginia. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

A 54-year-old track coach in Northern Virginia was arrested for sexually assaulting a girl he was training, authorities say.

A track coach in Loudoun County, Virginia, sexually assaulted an under-age athlete and asked her not to tell anyone, police say. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

While most Redskins fans attending Sunday’s match against the Lions donned burgundy and gold, one group in the stands of FedEx Field stood out in black.

It was a dangerously close call for a family of five in Ashburn, Virginia, when ashes from a grill sparked a massive fire at their home, destroying it. News4’s Drew Wilder spoke with the good Samaritan who rushed to help.

Charges against Washington Redskins safety Montae Nicholson stemming from an altercation in December have been dropped.

A Virginia high school student was taken into custody for threatening a school in Florida, authorities say.

Thieves targeted unlocked cars and stole valuables and a gun in Ashburn, Virginia, police say. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

Residents of a typically quiet apartment community in Ashburn, Virginia, were startled Saturday night by gunfire and say one bullet nearly struck a 6-year-old girl.

Someone fired several bullets at a residential community in Ashburn, Virginia, and one of them nearly struck a little girl inside her family’s apartment. News4’s Julie Carey reports.