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Some people incarcerated in Maryland’s prisons may have a chance to have their sentences reduced through a bill being considered now. The Second Look Act would allow younger offenders who have served at least 20 years in prison to ask to judge to release them. The bill has sparked heated debate in Annapolis. “Second Look is not a get-out-of-jail free…

Maryland lawmakers are considering the Second Look Act, which would allow younger offenders who’ve served at least 20 years to ask a judge to release them. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to critics and supporters of the bill.

The Prince George’s County Police Department is celebrating the opening of a new Special Operations Division Headquarters. News4’s Megan McGrath explains why it will help police collaborate more efficiently.

An attorney representing a Maryland man who ICE says it wrongfully deported to El Salvador says he has never seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. government admit to making such a mistake but refuse to correct the error. Kilmar Abrego Garcia had just finished work March 12 and was on his way to a bus stop to pick…

Maryland lawmakers are considering several bills to increase energy supply and control its high cost for consumers. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Linen World has been a family-run business in Oxon Hill for decades, but the owners say that competition has made it hard to keep going.

A California man’s attorneys say he’ll plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Nicholas John Roske say he intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States at a hearing next week. The charge carries...

The attorney for a Beltsville man wrongfully deported to El Salvador said he has never seen the government make such a statement but then refuse to correct the error. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Linen World was a one-stop shop for customers looking to spruce up their homes, but the owners have decided to close. News4’s Dominique Moody takes a final visit to a place that transformed houses into homes.

While Jonathan Roth’s first passion is art, he incorporates another passion into his children’s books: space. The Montgomery County art teacher explains how some of his children’s books came to be. 

Police are monitoring people who speed or don’t move over for stopped vehicles along Route 29. The goal is to ensure the safety of police officers, emergency responders, and stranded motorists on the side of the road. News4 Transportation Report Adam Tuss reports. 

There’s an urgent call to action coming from the steps of Congress. “We have to keep fighting, whether it’s education, whether it’s cuts to government employees,” said Rep. Glenn Ivey, who represents Maryland’s Fourth District. Days after the Department of Education announced it won’t pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds to school districts across...

Days after the Department of Education announced it will not pay school districts hundreds of millions of dollars in promised COVID-19 relief funds, Maryland leaders say they may take the budget battle to court. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

ICE admits it deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father of three, in error as the White House levelled new accusations against him. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says sending a Maryland man with protected status to prison in El Salvador almost three weeks ago was an “administrative error.”

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it was an “administrative error” sending a Maryland man with protected legal status to El Salvador. He is married and has a 5-year-old son with his wife.

The man told police he was “lying in wait” in her closet before killing her, documents said. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

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An 87-year-old woman was found killed inside a home in Potomac, Maryland, Sunday night after her grandson showed up to a police station and confessed to the crime, police say. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, walked into the Rockville City Police station just after 8 p.m. and told officers he killed his grandmother, Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, at her home, according to…

A fire broke out in an Upper Marlboro, Maryland home early Monday morning, according to the Prince George’s County fire department. News4’s Megan McGrath reports as firefighters work to put the fire out.