A referee is banned from officiating children’s basketball games in a Virginia city after he singled out a girl who was wearing a common African-American hairstyle.

A mother says a children’s basketball referee singled out her 10-year-old daughter for having blue weave in her hair. He mistakenly said the weave violated rules. WAVY-TV’s Tamara Scott has the story.

A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death in a Northern Virginia neighborhood late Tuesday, and a 19-year-old woman is charged with the crime.

A teenage driver struck and killed another teenager in Southeast D.C. Thursday morning and kept on going, according to D.C. police.

More than 200 people attended a vigil for a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed on a Metro train by a 15-year-old girl and later died. Shomari Stone spoke to the victim’s family.

A man dressed as Elmo in Times Square allegedly groped a 14-year-old tourist who was visiting New York City with a school group over the weekend, police said.

A 13-year-old girl is hurt after a stray bullet flew into her home in Southeast D.C. late Friday.

A 13-year-old girl was shot in her own home in Southeast D.C. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke with her mother.

Police are searching for suspects in a Southeast D.C. shooting that killed 11-year-old Karon Brown Thursday night. News4’s Mark Segraves has the story.

One year after her death, Makiyah Wilson’s parents plan to celebrate her life and hold on to the joyful memories they have of their daughter. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

This time last year, 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson was enjoying a summer night outside her family’s home when men jumped out of a car and started shooting.

Family, friends and neighbors gathered to pray and then walked to the spot where 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson’s life was taken by gunfire.

An eighth suspect has been charged in the murder of Makiyah Wilson nearly a year after the 10-year-old girl was shot while stepping outside her front door in Northeast D.C. to get ice cream.

A Maryland man was indicted for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, the United States Attorney’s Office said in a press release Wednesday.

A contract employee at a D.C. Montessori school is accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, prompting D.C. to suspend all before and after school programs run by the company for which he worked.

Almost two dozen schools in Maryland and D.C. suspended a private company in charge of operating after school programs after one of the company’s employees was charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old student. News4’s Mark Segraves reports on how this one incident revealed a major problem that could impact schools across the country.

A fourth suspect was arrested and charged Thursday in the killing of a 14-year-old girl in Prince George’s County in April.

A 59-year-old man is accused of picking up a 12-year-old girl in Montgomery County, Maryland, and sexually assaulting her, police say.

A 59-year-old man is accused of picking up a 12-year-old girl in Wheaton, Maryland, and sexually assaulting her, police say. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

An Amber Alert was canceled Wednesday morning, several hours after police activated it in Maryland for a missing 12-year-old girl believed to be with a 23-year-old man.