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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner briefed the public on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Beta made landfall and brought torrential rain to Houston and the surrounding region.

The Milwaukee Police Department’s chief apologized Wednesday as footage showing the tasing and arrest arrest of Bucks guard Sterling Brown.

In South Windsor there’s a celebrity who spends his days at a Paulie’s Professional Barber Shop. Just below the front door bell of the barber shop, there is a doggy in the window — he’s a star named Teddy.

Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20. The animal’s owners announced the cat’s death late Saturday in a statement.

How well do you know Maryland? We’re talking Ocean City, Old Bay and the Orioles.

Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. A suspect was shot and killed by police.

The majority of D.C. Council members say they will vote to remove Jack Evans from office. If the final vote goes the same way, it will be the first time that the D.C. Council has voted to remove one if its own. Mark Segraves reports.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

As he labors to win over black voters whose support is vital to his Democratic presidential bid, Pete Buttigieg found a receptive host on Sunday in a civil rights activist who has sought to continue the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for a racially diverse national campaign against poverty. After attending services at the Rev. William Barber’s Greenleaf Christian...

Joe Sestak ended his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, telling supporters that he couldn’t raise money because he was unable to break through in the media. Sestak, a former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania who turns 68 next week, qualified for none of the Democratic debates and failed to register even 1 percent in most opinion polls, NBC...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed legislation that strengthens and improves outcomes for survivors of sexual assault. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

A movement to rename a Richmond, Virginia, thoroughfare for groundbreaking black tennis player Arthur Ashe Jr. is cresting just as the state finds itself in turmoil over a blackface scandal involving the governor and attorney general.

WMATA’s Board of Directors voted Thursday to keep a reduced-hours schedule that will allow more time for maintenance work.

One of the most powerful elected officials in Washington, D.C., used government email for personal business, the Washington Post reports, raising questions whether he violated ethics or broke the law.

Questions are mounting over whether D.C.’s longest-serving elected official violated ethics rules or even broke the law. News4’s Mark Segraves talked to other lawmakers about the growing troubles for D.C. Councilman Jack Evans.

News4’s Adam Tuss takes a look at road closures during the March for Life on Friday and the Women’s March on Saturday.

Furloughed federal workers were in line for food when they received news of the proposed deal to end the government shutdown. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors will have a larger role in investigating violent shootings and murders in Washington, D.C., as part of an effort to curb a spike in homicides — but critics of the plan say it undermines the city’s efforts in criminal justice reform and could create problems for the courts.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city is investing more money in surveillance cameras to catch criminals. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.