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David McMillan shared his experience on social media, calling the pharmacist “a hero.” News4’s Darcy Spencer has the reaction from Giant, which is backing their pharmacist for making sure the vaccine didn’t go to waste.

David McMillan is not a first responder or healthcare worker. So even he was surprised when a Giant Food pharmacist asked him and his friend if they wanted to get the Moderna vaccine.

Two D.C. pharmacies at Giant grocery stores — the one at 8th and O in Northwest and the one on Alabama Avenue in Southeast — are among the first places that aren’t hospitals or clinics that will offer the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19.

Here’s how Giant pharmacies are vaccinating healthcare workers in the district. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A grocery store chain in the mid-Atlantic region is apologizing for an unfortunate blunder with a Thanksgiving advertisement printed in the latest edition of its magazine.

Expect big changes this week in how two grocery store chains in the D.C. area try to keep shoppers safe. Giant Food and Safeway each announced they will implement one-way aisle traffic and limit store occupancy in all D.C.-area stores by the end of the week. Giant will have the policies in place Thursday and Safeway will have them...

A judge has ruled the man accused of fatally stabbing a jogger in D.C. is now competent to stand trial, reversing an earlier ruling.

Wendy Martinez was jogging near D.C.’s Logan Circle when a stranger stabbed her to death. That man was sentenced Friday to spend three decades in prison.

The man who stabbed 35-year-old Wendy Martinez to death near Logan Circle last year was sentenced Friday to decades in prison. News4’s Darcy Spencer is outside the courthouse.

The man accused of fatally stabbing an avid runner in Washington, D.C. in September, has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced Friday.

A 23-year-old suspect in the fatal stabbing of jogger Wendy Martinez was found competent to stand trial. Anthony Crawford is accused of fatally stabbing Wendy Martinez near Logan Circle on Sept. 18, 2018.

The suspect in the death of a woman who was stabbed while jogging in Logan Circle is not competent to stand trial, a mental health screening determined.

An army of robots named Marty is coming to some grocery stores in Maryland and Virginia.

Pennsylvania-based GIANT Food Stores plans to deploy new robots nicknamed “Marty” to assist with clean ups and tripping hazards at its 172 stores, including 15 stores in Maryland and Virginia.

A D.C. police detective’s testimony revealed new details Thursday in the case of a young woman who was stabbed and killed while jogging in Logan Circle.

A group of 11 friends who play the lottery together will split $1 million after missing last week’s $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot by one number.

Thousands of children’s shoes were on display outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence.

A group of activists collected thousands of children’s shoes for a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence since 20 children and six adults died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newton, Connecticut, in December 2012.

CVS Health has agreed to continue sales of SmarTrip cards in the Washington region’s 200 CVS stores after previously saying it would stop selling the cards due to challenges with Metro.