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For the first time in the city’s history, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that the new mental health professionals and crisis workers will be the dispatched through 911, instead of the NYPD, to respond to mental health emergencies in two high-need communities — calling the pilot program a “major innovation.”

Arlington County has a new tool to address the COVID-19 pandemic. News4’s Derrick Ward explains how fire officials say it will change the way some emergency calls are handled during the health crisis and beyond.

DC Police, Fire and EMS spent Monday night at the Georgetown waterfront trying to retrieve a car with one person inside that were submerged in the Potomac. The identity of the person and the events that led to the car being submerged are unknown. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

A toddler was thrown and a teen jumped from a second-story window to escape a fire that tore through a Northeast D.C. home early Sunday, leaving a woman in critical condition. The four occupants of the duplex at 400 block of Madison Street Northeast were all able to escape — and a family dog got out, too. Firefighters say that…

Residents who awoke Saturday to a strong odor in parts of Prince George’s County and D.C. are being told there is no hazardous natural gas leak.

D.C. was wracked by multiple shootings overnight Saturday. Give people, including a girl, were hurt, and a building housing young men transitioning out of incarceration was hit. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Sarah Nicole Henderson, the East Texas woman accused of fatally shooting her two daughters in November 2017, struck a plea deal Wednesday where she’ll avoid the death penalty and spend life behind bars.

Firefighters in Prince George’s County are battling a large house fire that broke out in Bowie Saturday night and police have detained a teen in connection with the blaze.

The westbound lanes of Greenbelt Road remained closed at Kenilworth Avenue as of about 2 p.m. Thursday, police said. Traffic was being diverted onto Kenilworth.

Two people were airlifted following a crash involving an overturned cement truck on Indian Head Highway in Maryland on Wednesday afternoon.

Two people had to be cut from the wreckage after a crash involving a cement truck on Indian Head Highway. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Fire and EMS Chief Gregory Dean gave an update on a massive fire at a senior apartment complex.

A girl was shot in the ankle Thursday night in Southeast, D.C., fire officials say.

Someone shot a little girl in the ankle when they fired a gun in Southeast D.C., police say. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

A pilot is alive thanks in part to a group of rafters who raced into action when his plane crashed into the Colorado River on Tuesday.

Someone fired gunshots in the air amid Fourth of July celebrations in D.C. Wednesday night, injuring an 11-year-old girl, police say.

A child was grazed in the face by a bullet in Southeast D.C. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald has the story.

Northbound New Jersey Avenue NW between E and F streets has been closed for the crash investigation.