john thompson

Tracee Wilkins spoke to Jesse Washington, co-author of Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson’s posthumous autobiography. As seen in a special broadcast of “Inequality in America” on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.

John Thompson Jr. was a legend on and off the court, who left his mark on his hometown of D.C. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

The college basketball coaching great John Thompson of Georgetown has died

Former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson, Jr. has died at the age of 78.

John Thompson, 75, was struck and killed by a car Saturday morning while crossing the road at the intersection of Duke and Sweeley Streets.

The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers’ license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked plans to include a citizenship question in its 2020 population count. The two approaches, documented by The Associated Press, alarm civil rights activists. They caution...

 The president’s fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census seems to have ended.

Notorious D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond was sentenced to life in prison. Now, he’s seeking release into a city that has changed in many ways.

Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction was reinstated Wednesday in a sweeping ruling from Massachusetts’ highest court that does away with the legal principle that made the former NFL star innocent in the eyes of the law after he killed himself in prison. The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously found that the legal rule that erased Hernandez’s conviction is “outdated and no longer...

A federal trial began Tuesday for lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a plan that a different court blocked last week. Former U.S. Census Bureau director John Thompson, the first plaintiffs’ witness for the bench trial in Maryland, testified Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross disregarded “long established” Census Bureau protocols in adding the...

The residents of Annapolis, Maryland, came together to mourn the five newspaper employees killed in a shooting. They told News4’s Shomari Stone they are leaning on each other and their city will bounce back.

From Virginia to Massachusetts, about 1 million homes and businesses remained without power Sunday, two days after a destructive nor’easter, leaving some residents unsure when they could return home and schools questioning if they would be able to open Monday morning. Skies were clear Sunday over much of the Northeast hit by the storm, which was blamed for nine deaths,...