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Utility workers are hurt, a home is damaged and cars are destroyed after a gas line explosion and fire Wednesday in Northern Virginia, officials say.  Three workers were taken to a hospital with burns and injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, the Fairfax County fire department said. Aerial footage from Chopper4 shows tall, orange flames leaping into...

The flames of an explosion that injured three Washington Gas workers in Springfield finally burned out before 4 p.m. News4’s Chis Gordon reports.

Utility workers were hurt, a home was damaged and cars were destroyed after a gas line caught fire and exploded in Northern Virginia on Wednesday.

A third person died Saturday afternoon who was critically wounded in a shooting at a warehouse in central Illinois where the suspect had fatally shot two coworkers before apparently killing himself, authorities said.

Two employees at the Bunn-O-Matic warehouse in Springfield, Illinois, were fatally shot and a third was critically injured after a fellow employee opened fire Friday morning, police officials said. The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office said officers were called out for a shooting just after 11 a.m. Friday at the facility at 1400 Adlai Stevenson Dr. Police said two individuals were…

A 24-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday evening in West Springfield, Virginia, and a man is charged in his murder.

Gunfire rang out in a West Springfield neighborhood, leaving a man dead. Detectives believe the victim was targeted. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

An 11-year-old girl abducted in Springfield was found safe and her alleged kidnapper arrested Wednesday evening after an Amber Alert was issued amid an hourslong search, Massachusetts State Police said.

A family that tailed the car wanted in a Springfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping Wednesday described the tense chase that eventually led to the girl’s recovery and her alleged abductor’s arrest.

The owner of a security company in Springfield, Virginia, is accused of buying tactical gear from China and telling government agencies he made it himself. News4’s Julie Carey reports the owner had hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts.

DNA technology is showing what the killer of two women in 2006 may look like at various ages.

Two women named Marion who lived two miles apart in Northern Virginia were killed in 2006. Now, DNA has been used to predict what the killer looked like. Cory Smith reports.

A teenager accused of killing a man in Springfield, Virginia, on Thanksgiving is in custody in North Carolina, police said.

A teenager shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Springfield, Virginia, Thursday afternoon, police said. Derrick Ward reports.

A teenager shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Springfield, Virginia, Thursday afternoon, police said.

A 21-year-old man from Springfield, Virginia, is accused of soliciting sex from a minor after police say he offered to trade sexually explicit images of children.

A man who worked as a substitute teacher and teacher’s assistant at two Virginia elementary schools has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for trying to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual conduct

A 12-year-old girl who accused three sixth-grade boys of pinning her down and cutting her dreadlocks has admitted to school officials she was not attacked and cut her own hair, her family’s attorney said.

Three sixth-grade boys at a Christian school in Northern Virginia pinned down a black classmate and cut off some of her dreadlocks while telling her her hair was “nappy” and “ugly,” she told News4.