Gina Cook

The drunken driver who crashed into a family’s car after Christmas and killed three young children is set to spend two decades in prison.

Thomas Hawks drove a pickup truck into the back of a family’s car, killing three young children. Chris Gordon reports on his sentencing.

A grandmother is sad her home was destroyed by fire but grateful her grandsons are OK.

A police officer in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is accused of breaking into a D.C. office building, police say.

A fight along D.C.’s busy U Street turned into a deadly hit-and-run over the Thanksgiving weekend, police say.

A couple who runs a nonprofit organization that trains service dogs for disabled veterans was elated when they discovered more than 30 acres for sale in southern Fauquier County, Virginia.

A couple who runs a nonprofit in Virginia purchased land in Fauquier County to expand its operation. But they discovered a creek with a racially offensive name runs through the property. Drew Wilder reports they got the state to agree to a name change.

Two children are seriously hurt after their grandmother threw one from a burning building and the other fell from a fire ladder while trying to escape, D.C. fire officials say.

News4’s Shomari Stone spoke to a man who ran to help when a grandmother threw two children out of a window during a fire at a D.C. apartment building.

A woman was found dead in a wooded area of Montgomery County, Maryland, on Friday, police say.

A fight along D.C.’s busy U Street turned into a deadly hit-and-run. News4’s Mark Segraves reports why police are looking for two different suspects.

The National Zoo announced it has increased security measures for ZooLights after two teenage boys were shot near the event on Nov. 30. News4’s Darcy Spencer has more details.

Two teenagers were shot near the Smithsonian National Zoo in Northwest D.C. Saturday night as hundreds of people were in the area for ZooLights, authorities say.

Police say heavy fog may have helped cause a nearly 60-car pileup that snarled holiday traffic on an interstate highway in western Maryland.

A teenager shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Springfield, Virginia, Thursday afternoon, police said.

A woman driving with marijuana edibles in her car nearly drove into a five-car crash scene along northbound Interstate 495 in Fairfax County, Virginia, Thanksgiving morning, police say.

New laws are on the books in California, New York and, most recently, Montgomery County, Maryland, to protect people from discrimination because of how they wear their hair.

A suspect has been arrested in the killing of a woman whose body was found while firefighters battled a brush fire in Bowie, Maryland, this summer.

The new vice chairman of a Maryland legislative committee will deploy to Afghanistan 10 days before the legislative session closes.

Police in Prince George’s County are cracking down on criminals who steal handicap parking placards and say it’s a crime that offends the dignity of people with disabilities.