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Twenty people, including members of the Colombo crime family, have been charged with a litany of crimes, including racketeering, extortion and loansharking, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

For parents who aren’t ready to give their children cellphones, there is an alternative to keeping tabs on them. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan reports.

Two months after a mother of five vanished from a Connecticut town, authorities say they’re still following up on more than 1,200 tips and leads.

Our technological capabilities were much different 50 years ago when man first set foot on the moon, but the technology that came out of the Apollo 11 mission is still with us today. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

Fotis Dulos knows what the public thinks of him, and has a message for them: Wait until the facts come out.

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The girlfriend of the estranged husband of a missing New Canaan mother has made a request to travel outside Connecticut and she will be in court Friday.

Olli the self-driving shuttle bus rolls down the streets of National Harbor all by itself, sensing everything around it.

Olli the self-driving shuttle bus rolls down the streets of National Harbor all by itself, sensing everything around it. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

Amanda Eller had an emotional reunion on Monday night with the men who rescued her after she was lost for 17 days in a Hawaiian jungle, hugging them tight in thanks for saving her life. “You guys are the heroes,” Eller said during a community gathering. “I am not the hero, I am just the girl sitting here healing my...

Amanda Eller is recovering after spending 16 days alone in a remote Hawaiian forest. Eller, who was lost when she went for a walk in Maui’s Mackawow Forest Reserve on May 8th, said she chose to live during her two week ordeal.

Many parents use GPS apps to track their children. But few parents know what many teenagers do – that their GPS location can secretly be faked.

Marking tires to enforce parking rules is like entering property without a search warrant, a federal court said Monday as it declared the practice unconstitutional in Michigan and three other states. Alison Taylor had received more than a dozen $15 tickets for exceeding the two-hour parking limit in Saginaw. The city marks tires with chalk to keep track of how...

Prince George’s County police start a new crackdown to raise awareness about keeping drivers’ focus behind the wheel. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss took a ride with police.

A couple of drivers in Fauquier County faced gunfire when their GPS took them down the wrong driveway. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Dr. Gladys West watched the film “Hidden Figures” and remembered her own parallel story working alongside the U.S. Air Force. As one of a few African-Americans in her office, she made it her mission to excel — and succeeded.

Two Virginia men accused of setting up an alleged prostitution ring in which women were driven to clients’ doors and replaced with new women weekly pleaded guilty in federal court.

Two Virginia men are charged in an alleged prostitution ring in which authorities say women were driven to clients’ doors and replaced with new women weekly.

A Lyft rider in suburban Phoenix stabbed his pregnant driver, killing the woman and her unborn child before stealing her vehicle and driving nearly 150 miles before being arrested near the California line, authorities said Monday. Tempe police said Kristina Howato, 39, was in her third trimester of pregnancy and is survived by two other young children.