Derrick Ward

In a video taken last Saturday, 2-year-old Ezechial Nguemezi is full of joy. His mother and grandmother didn’t know the footage would show part of their last hours together.  Ezechial fell from a third-story window of his family’s apartment in Takoma Park at about 1:30 p.m. last Sunday. Neighbors tried to save him but he later died.  “Ezechial, I...

People across the country are coming together to create a quilt on display at the National Mall to honor workers at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

People continued to gather outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sunday to pray for President Donald Trump as he is treated there for COVID-19. Well-wishers sang, left bouquets and held hand-lettered signs, News4’s Derrick Ward shows.

A car careened into a Capitol Heights home, then erupted into flames. News4’s Derrick Ward reports on the fatal crash.

Police are searching for suspects after the shooting behind a spa. Derrick Ward reports.

A group of eight women from the Washington, D.C., area is retracing Harriet Tubman’s trek for freedom, walking 116 miles from Maryland to Pennsylvania. They say the journey holds special meaning now as many Americans stand divided.  The hikers set out on the Tubman Byway on Saturday, starting in Cambridge, Maryland, and making their way north to Kennett Square,...

A group of local women are on a more than 100-mile journey hiking the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway from Cambridge, Maryland, to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. News4’s Derrick Ward has more on their journey to walk in the steps Tubman walked.

News4’s Derrick Ward reports on the covid-19 safety measures Marymount University has adopted as they welcome students students back on campus.

Tropical Storm Isaias caused major damage in Calvert County, Maryland, and some residents are still stranded because of flood waters.  In Huntingtown, neighbors who were once strangers are now friends as they help each other weather the storm.  A dam once carried Ox Cart Road over a lake. But it was no match for the storms that hit Tuesday...

Tropical Storm Isaias caused severe flooding in damage across our region. A gaping hole, left by the storm, in a road to a small community in Calvert County has left families stranded in their neighborhood. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Dozens of people may have been exposed to coronavirus at an event at a Rockville retirement community. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Families come out to celebrate 2020 early at First Night Alexandria. Derrick Ward Reports.

Business owners in the D.C. area are offering deep discounts to holiday shoppers. News4’s Derrick Ward reports some are continuing their Small Business Saturday deals into Cyber Monday.

Gunshots rang out in broad daylight in Southeast D.C. Friday morning, killing one man and hurting two other people, police say.

One man died and a woman and a man were injured in a triple shooting in Southeast D.C. the day after Thanksgiving. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

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.

News4’s Derrick Ward spoke with the father of a woman killed as she was walking along I-95.

Days after hundreds of people mourned five children killed in a car crash in Bowie, Maryland, a man who was a passenger in the car has also died.

At Fletchers Cove, the National Park Service consistently cleans up debris washed up by the Potomac River. But sticks and branches piled up during the government shutdown, inspiring a small army of volunteers to help rangers clean up the area. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A rare Bible used to justify slavery, one of only three known copies, is now on display in D.C.