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A teenager who said Afghanistan is the “darkest” place in the world for women and girls is desperately trying to flee the country with the assistance of Chicago-area residents and a non-profit organization.

A West Texas attorney accidentally joined a court hearing with a Zoom filter of a cat turned on—and he couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.

A San Gabriel-based attorney who pleaded guilty to taking part in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that sold temporary green cards to foreign investors was sentenced Friday to one day behind bars and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service.

Fifteen women have alleged they were harassed while working for the Washington NFL team. The allegations do not include allegations of harassment involving team owner Dan Snyder. News4’s Jackie Benson spoke to an attorney who has represented victims in some of the country’s most high-profile sexual harassment cases.

An attorney for a former police officer accused of raping a woman he had in custody says his client is innocent and asked for his release. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports a judge denied the request.

A judge sentenced a man to 40 years in prison with all but nine years suspended in an illegal firearms case.

Authorities say a woman placed a plastic bag over her 3-year-old son’s head and tied his hands as their Santa Paula home burned.

Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in rough weather near Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. A Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop passenger plane, had as many as 12 people on board when it crashed shortly after takeoff about a mile from Chamberlain Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Brule County...

A bill originally meant to help law enforcement investigate cold cases of murdered and missing indigenous women that has floundered in Congress for two years may have the missing ingredients to become law — money and muscle. The money comes from an appropriations subcommittee chaired by Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who told The Associated Press that for the first...

Richard Spencer, who was fired at Navy secretary for his handling of a SEAL war crimes case championed by President Donald Trump, wrote Wednesday that the commander in chief “has very little understanding” of how the American military works. The extraordinary accusation came in an opinion piece published on The Washington Post’s website Wednesday evening, three days after he was...

The woman found dead near the shoulder of I-95 in Maryland last week was hit by a tractor-trailer after she got in an argument in a car and walked along the highway, a source tells News4.

A man entered a U.S. Senate office building on Tuesday afternoon and stripped fully nude, police say.

A U.S. judge in Oregon on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking a Trump administration proclamation that would require immigrants to show proof of health insurance to get a visa. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon said in a written opinion that the proclamation could not take effect while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality makes its way through the courts....

Maryland State Police say the semitruck driver involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 22-year-old woman on I-95 last week was found in North Carolina.

John Bolton’s attorney suggested Tuesday that a court order directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress has no bearing on whether his client and another ex-national security official he represents will testify. The statement from attorney Charles Cooper aimed to blunt public speculation that the judge’s order in the McGahn case could influence the actions of...

Three men incarcerated for 36 years in Maryland were exonerated Monday in the slaying of a Baltimore teenager after a review of their case. Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were released from custody hours after a judge cleared their convictions and prosecutors dropped the charges. They were teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison in 1984....

A woman heard a noise in her apartment and found a man wearing a towel hiding in her bedroom closet.

An environmental crisis is getting Hollywood attention. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports the movie “Dark Waters” is inspired by a true story connecting one of the world’s largest corporations to a growing number of unexplained deaths.

President Donald Trump on Friday touted news reports that a former FBI lawyer is suspected of altering a document related to surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser in 2016. The Associated Press has confirmed reports by CNN and The Washington Post that the finding is part of a Justice Department inspector general investigation into the FBI’s probe of ties...

A Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to take his life has been arraigned. Twenty-one-year-old Inyoung You, a South Korean national, appeared before a judge at Suffolk Superior Court Friday morning where a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Prosecutors say You sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than...