A Fairfax County elementary school teacher who is recovering from COVID-19 is sharing her experience on social media about how difficult it was for her and her husband to get tested. Catherine Collett, a 6th grade teacher at Lynbrook Elementary School, said in a Facebook post on Friday that during their first of four ER visits, doctors told her and…

A Fairfax County teacher tested positive for coronavirus. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

The drama director at Fairfax Academy for Communications and the Arts runs his classes like a professional acting academy. After directing at the school for 20 years, Mike Replogle plans to retire. Replogle teaches his students how to succeed as professional actors, not only directing the school’s theatrical productions, but also teaching classes on headshots and resumes. After serving in…

News4’s Leon Harris profiles Mike Replogle, retiring drama director at Fairfax Academy for Communications and the Arts, who influenced a generation of young Fairfax County actors.

When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...

Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.

A Prince George’s County teacher who was caught on camera fighting a student has had all charges dropped. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports from Largo High.

Police arrested two men in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia.

The man who provided the gun used to kill a teacher’s aide was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

The principal at a D.C. public charter school is facing a criminal charge. Prosecutors say she failed to promptly notify the proper authorities that a teacher was accused of sexually touching a student.

A former teacher and teacher’s aide are charged with assaulting students with special needs. The school principal is also indicted for not reporting the alleged abuse. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday. In the months after...

A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down.

A middle school teacher is accused of assaulting an 11-year-old student by holding her upside down. Pat Collins reports.

A teacher at Bowie High School is charged with sexual abuse after police say they learned he had sexual contact with a student on school grounds.

A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...

Teachers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are using an online simulator to learn how to help students who are experiencing a mental health crisis. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

The principal and vice principal of an elementary school in Charles County, Maryland, have been reassigned after parents voiced their disdain with the school’s response to a reported sexual assault incident on the playground.

A teacher has been arrested after he choked an elementary school student earlier this month, police say.

Days after hundreds of people mourned five children killed in a car crash in Bowie, Maryland, a man who was a passenger in the car has also died.