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A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus’ manger arrived Saturday in its permanent home in the biblical city of Bethlehem 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope. Cheerful crowds greeted the ornately encased relic with much fanfare before it entered the Franciscan Church of St. Catherine next...

Charles Schwab is buying rival TD Ameritrade in a $26 billion stock swap, a blockbuster agreement brought about by massive disruption in the online brokerage industry. Bowing to competitive pressure, brokerages have made it free for customers to trade U.S. stocks online. A combination of two of the biggest players in the industry would allow Schwab to save billions of...

A Northern Virginia gymnastics coach has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing an underage athlete more than a decade ago.

A prominent bodyguard to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was shot and killed in what authorities described as a personal dispute, state TV reported Sunday, offering few details on an incident that shocked the kingdom. Tributes poured in across social media for Maj. Gen. Abdulaziz al-Fagham, with many including images of the bodyguard at work. One included him bending down to...

A judge erupted in court as he sentenced a former child care worker who pleaded guilty to child sex abuse involving two boys. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A former after-school child care worker will spend at least the next eight years in prison for sexually assaulting two boys in the program.

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

A former music teacher from Annandale, Virginia, who was accused of sexually abusing former students was found dead on Wednesday, police said.

A 56-year-old music teacher in Annandale, Virginia, is accused of abusing two former students, police say.

Jeffrey Cummins was arrested at Dulles International Airport after he arrived from traveling internationally, police said. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke with his neighbors who said they were in shock.

Police in Fairfax County have arrested and charged a day care employee in Springfield, Virginia, after a child said they had been inappropriately touched.

Rolly Hammond of Burke, Virginia, has been charged with sexual battery in Fairfax County. Police said two children said they were inappropriately touched by Hammond. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A great grandmother who is the primary provider for her two grandsons told News4 she’s worried she won’t be able to get by if the government shutdown doesn’t end soon. She works as a custodian at the Department of Agriculture. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

One by one, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Gallo called the names of 14 defendants who were charged with entering the country illegally. Defense attorneys told him the government had already deported them to Mexico, making it impossible for them to appear. In a rebuke to the government, the judge immediately dismissed all charges and ordered that their bond money be...

Students at an elementary school in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County get weekly instruction in yoga. They said they leave the class more calm than when they entered. “Sometimes I get mad at other students, and I just breathe and then out so I could focus on the present,” fourth-grader Brian Tobias said. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports.

A teacher found a noose hanging from a light fixture outside a middle school building in Anne Arundel County Thursday morning, police say.

An unlikely bond between a Stafford County, Virginia, school janitor and a student has gone viral.

The unlikely friendship between a Virginia high schooler and a janitor has gone viral. News4’s David Culver reports.

More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam’s faithful face five times each day during their prayers. The five-day hajj pilgrimage represents one of the world’s biggest gatherings every year, and is required of all able-bodied Muslims once in their life. The...

People feel happier and less depressed when vacant lots in their neighborhood are cleared of trash or “greened up,” according to what might be a first-of-a-kind study of public space’s effects on mental health. NBC News reported that Philadelphia residents who lived near vacant lots that were filled in with trees and grass or simply cleaned up reported to University...