ASHBURN

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.

Students in grades 3-5 were instructed to act as runaway slaves and slave owners during a gym lesson for Black History Month. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

Redskins player Montae Nicholson is accused of assaulting a man in Ashburn, Virginia. A witness told News4’s Shomari Stone that Nicholson was calm but his friend was “causing trouble” inside the bar World of Beer.

A group of local students who attend Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia, took money from their own pockets to make stuffed bears for kids with cancer. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

The first snowfall of the season came earlier than usual, and that means the first Pat Collins Snow Stick of the season was awarded early too.

The 20-year-old winner of the first Pat Collins Snow Stick of the season grew up doing the Snow Stick Challenges. 

It was Amy Gorman’s lifelong dream to publish her children’s book, “Superpowers of the Shy Girl,” but she did not live to see it on the shelves.

Ashburn, Virginia, mom Amy Gorman died of cancer before she could see her book “Superpower of the Shy Girl” hit the shelves. But Gorman’s legacy lives on through the book her family published for her. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.