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The sister of a construction worker who was trapped in a collapsed building in Northwest D.C. says he is paralyzed and has a long recovery ahead. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

A construction worker who spent more than 90 minutes trapped beneath three stories of debris when a building collapsed in D.C. has a lengthy recovery ahead and is traumatized from what happened, his sister says. Leonardo Moreto DaSilva, 27, was working on a building in the 900 block of Kennedy Street NW Thursday afternoon when it suddenly collapsed. “He remembers…

One of the largest music venues in the District reopened for the first time in more than a year but not for live music. The Anthem at the Wharf in Southwest is being used as a pop-up vaccination site. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Transportation reporter Adam Tuss reports notorious gate 35X is one step closer to going away forever at Reagan National Airport.

After trying to fix a mechanical problem, a construction worker was pinned under a truck bed and killed. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Colombian President Iván Duque ordered a curfew in the nation’s capital Friday amid continuing unrest following a massive march a day before that brought tens of thousands to the streets in a strong message of rejection against his conservative government.

Migrants wanting to request asylum camped out on a U.S.-Mexico border bridge Thursday, leading to a half-day closure of a span linking the Mexican city of Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas. Hundreds of migrants from Central America and elsewhere stretched out on the bridge before dawn, with some lying on mats or their coats. The crowd included children and babies. U.S....

Prosecutors say a U.S. Marine veteran accused of stabbing a construction worker to death at an Oceanside job site in 2017 “missed the thrill” of killing and went out that night looking for a life to take.

The hurricane death toll is rising in the Bahamas, in what its leader calls “this hour of darkness.” Search and rescue teams were still trying to reach some Bahamian communities isolated by floodwaters and debris Saturday after Hurricane Dorian struck the northern part of the archipelago last Sunday. At least 43 people died. Several hundred people, many of them Haitian...

Carrying their meager possessions in duffel bags and shopping carts, hundreds of desperate storm victims gathered at the port in Grand Abaco on Friday in hopes of getting off the hurricane-devastated island, amid signs of rising frustration over the pace of the disaster-relief effort. “It’s chaos here,” said Gee Rolle, a 44-year-old construction worker who waited with his wife for...

Carrying possessions in plastic bags, some weary Bahamians whose homes were smashed by Hurricane Dorian waited Thursday for a flight out of the disaster zone as an international humanitarian effort to help the Caribbean country gained momentum. The death toll rose to 30. A few hundred people gathered at the partly flooded Leonard M. Thompson airport on Abaco island in...

Hurricane Dorian caused limited damage in the northern Caribbean as it left the region Wednesday night, setting its sights on the U.S. mainland as it threatened to grow into a dangerous Category 3 storm.

President Donald Trump is holding a rally in front of thousands of supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, looking to once again demonstrate his popularity with New Hampshire’s Republican voters. The “Keep America Great” rally started with a minutes-long ovation when Trump took the stage at Southern New Hampshire University Arena.

The man suspected of setting ablaze a beloved Japanese animation studio, killing 34 people, was raging about theft and witnesses and media reported he had a grudge against the company, as questions arose why such mass killings keep happening in the country. Police only have said the suspect Shinji Aoba, 41, who is hospitalized with severe burns and unable to...

The archbishop wore a hard-hat helmet, burnt wood debris was still visible and only about 30 people were let inside, but Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday held its first Mass since the devastating April 15th fire that ravaged its roof and toppled its masterpiece spire. Exactly two months after the blaze engulfed the landmark Gothic building in the French capital,...

Police in the nation’s capital have arrested a man accused of fatally shooting a construction worker who was directing traffic.

Families gathered at the March for Homicide Victims in D.C. to demand justice for family and friends who were killed in homicides. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A Northwest D.C. senior living facility is facing a $1 million negligence lawsuit for delays in reporting an alleged sexual abuse incident involving a woman with dementia and a construction worker.

Weeks after the News4 I-Team revealed delays in reporting a sex abuse allegation inside a local senior-living facility, that business is facing a lawsuit. The family of a woman with dementia says the facility waited nearly a week to call police and the woman’s son about the incident — delays that could have compromised an investigation. Investigative reporter Scott MacFarlane...

A stormwater drain overwhelmed by all the rain in the area collapsed, creating a sinkhole that forced the National Park Service to close the northbound lanes of George Washington Parkway in Fairfax County. A News4 investigation revealed the NPS has almost a billion dollar in deferred maintenance on its parkways. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.