All kinds walk through the security checkpoints at the Frederick County Courthouse on any given day, but few manage to turn heads like Giuseppe, Welton, Zeke and Zoey. “We’re just the handlers. They call us ‘the dopes on the ends of the ropes,'” said Francina Baldi with a smile as she led Giuseppe, a 3-year-old mini goldendoodle, toward the stairwell...

The News4 I-Team goes behind bars to see what the District is doing to try to prepare longtime inmates for freedom. Scott MacFarlane reports the D.C. jail has an enormous task: Help the inmates, protect the community and keep peace inside its walls.

Young Men Emerging offers group counseling, one-on-one mentoring, job training and educational programs — all to help prepare the participants for their potential release from custody.

Prosecutors requested the man credited with spurring the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C., get a reduced sentence.

Three brothers were sentenced Thursday in connection with the death of Prince George’s County police Detective Jacai Colson. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on the long and emotional hearing.

The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from a Baltimore hospital where she had been treated for a possible infection. The 86-year-old Ginsburg has returned to her home in Washington, D.C., and is “doing well,” court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Sunday. Ginsburg spent two nights at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was taken there Friday...

Pat Lawson Muse discusses Hunger and Homelessness Week with representatives from local organizations that help address those issues.

A woman hired to oversee the books and finances at a major Washington, D.C. ballet school founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is charged with defrauding the school, including by using its credit cards at MGM National Harbor casino.

Immigrants who are protected by the DACA program defiantly chanted “Home is here” on the Supreme Court steps Tuesday. News4’s Cory Smith spoke to some “dreamers” about the case that is now in the hands of the nation’s highest court.

A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday’s ruling in U.S. District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11...

Immigrants and others who support DACA, a program that shields young immigrants from deportation, camped outside the Supreme Court Monday night. Oral arguments are set to begin Tuesday on whether the Obama-era program can continue. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

A Virginia doctor allegedly performed hysterectomies and tied a patient’s fallopian tubes without consent, federal authorities said in court documents, NBC News reported. Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested Friday and charged with health care fraud and making false statements to federal investigators, according to papers filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. In one case, Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake,...

Felicity Huffman is paying her dues following her 11-day prison sentence. Nine days after being released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. for her involvement in the college admissions scandal, the “Desperate Housewives” alum has begun carving away at her community service hours.

Is stealing a presidential portrait a prison-worthy crime? Or a laudable act of civil disobedience? Courts around France are grappling with this question in response to an unusual new environmental movement that’s aiming to push French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to fight climate change. One by one, environmental activists around France have removed Macron’s official portraits from more...

A Maryland man pleaded guilty Monday in the slayings of five employees at an Annapolis newspaper, and a jury is expected to hear testimony next month about whether he was not responsible by reason of insanity. Jarrod Ramos pleaded guilty in the 2018 massacre at the Capital Gazette newspaper. Judge Laura Ripken accepted his plea Monday afternoon.

The man accused of killing five staffers at the Capital Gazette changed his plea to guilty. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

Top Republican leaders in Texas this week weighed in on two parents’ battle over their 7-year-old child’s gender identity after the case was shared widely on social media and conservative news sites. Former spouses Anne Georgulas and Jeffrey Younger, who live in the Dallas area, have been embroiled in a legal dispute over their divorce and the care of their...

A Virginia judge has ordered the dismissal of decades-old charges against five African-American men stemming from a 1939 sit-in at what was then a whites-only library.

Take a look at six of the most memorable lines from the fourth Democratic presidential debate held Tuesday night in Ohio.