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The shooting was reported about 9 a.m. Wednesday at the post office in Lovettsville.

A new nationwide push is changing the way officers collect evidence in an effort to solve violent crimes by connecting them, but the News4 I-Team found some departments aren’t doing it — even though it could help solve crimes in neighboring cities.

Though 20 years have passed since a gunman killed three people and himself at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, some D.C. officers remember the traumatic event like it was yesterday.

Five American journalists subject to controversial surveillance tactics at the border are now suing the Trump administration for allegedly violating their constitutionally-protected rights.

Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while the administration says it’s focusing on quality over quantity in pollution cases, using its enforcement resources to go after the biggest and worst offenders, an Associated Press analysis...

A Virginia man who has been linked by the FBI to a violent neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty on Tuesday to gun charges, one of several recent criminal cases against members of the same far-right extremist group.

A man who repeatedly espoused anti-Semitic views has been arrested in a plot to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue, federal officials said Monday. The co-conspirators in the plot turned out to be undercover agents, who arrested the man shortly before he planned to bomb the synagogue early Saturday morning, according to court documents.

The Secret Service is purchasing Jet Skis, in part to protect President Donald Trump’s family as they participate in water sports.

Three people face federal charges in California for allegedly defrauding foreign investors in a jobs program overseen by U.S. immigration officials, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

A 41-year-old Toledo, Ohio, man was charged Friday in a federal case alleging he made criminal threats against U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Facebook, NBC News reported. According to federal authorities, suspect Timothy J. Ireland Jr., 41, posted on social media, “She should be shot. Can’t fire me, my employer would load the gun for me.” The statement was...

Northern Virginia’s top prosecutor says he’ll push local police agencies to make better use of a nationwide crime-fighting tool that matches shell casings from different locations to help solve violent crimes.

A new nationwide push is changing the way officers collect evidence in an effort to solve violent crimes by connecting them, but the News4 I-Team found some departments aren’t doing it — even though it could help solve crimes in neighboring cities.

Puerto Rico’s former secretary of education and five other people were arrested Wednesday on charges of steering federal money to unqualified, politically connected contractors, federal officials said. Federal officials said Wednesday morning that former Education Secretary Julia Keleher; former Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration head Ángela Ávila-Marrero; businessmen Fernando Scherrer-Caillet and Alberto Velázquez-Piñol, and education contractors Glenda E. Ponce-Mendoza and...

Nearly three years after an explosion killed seven people at a Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment complex, tenants say the smell of gas and gas leaks at the community have continued and they want Washington Gas to act.

A man who authorities say fled to Ethiopia after a double homicide in Virginia in 2016 has been extradited to face charges in the U.S.

A man who authorities say fled to Ethiopia after a double homicide in Virginia in 2016 has been extradited to face charges in the U.S.

A convicted drug trafficker implicated in the 1985 torture and killing of a DEA agent was arrested in Mexico and returned to California to face a charge of probation violation.

A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a Silver Spring apartment complex that killed seven people, the NTSB said Tuesday.

A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a Silver Spring apartment complex that killed seven people in 2016, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Tuesday. NTSB also said the explosion may have been preventable. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Virginia State Police are warning parents about 33-year-old Manassas man accused of finding children online and asking for nude photos.