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Some Virginia school leaders are warning against senior assassin, a game students play with water guns. But others say it’s just harmless fun. “I’ve known seniors who have played it since I was a sophomore and I’ve looked forward to playing it since … I was that age. And now that it’s actually here, I look forward to playing...

The National Park Service announced plans to begin rehabilitation of the historic Rock Creek Park golf course later this year — but the rehab is not without controversy.

“Bodybuilding ballet” is how Laulauga Tausaga-Collins describes the sport that will take her to Paris for the 2024 Olympics. News4’s Tommy McFly tried throwing a discus along with her.

Gallaudet University is credited with creating the football huddle in 1894. News4’s Dominique Moody has that story.

Testimony got underway Wednesday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of a Fairfax County teenager behind the wheel in a horrific crash that killed two teenage girls and seriously injured a third. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Many communities offer cash rewards for tips from the public to solve difficult cases, but the News4 I-Team found there’s little scrutiny of how effective those programs are.

U.S. House representatives and co-chairs of the congressional Financial Literacy and Wealth Creation Caucus Joyce Beatty and Young Kim are hosting a free financial education resource fair for National Financial Literacy Month. News4’s Tommy McFly spoke with Congresswoman Beatty about it.

More than six years after an off-duty D.C. police officer was shot and killed as he sat in a car in Baltimore, a suspect has been charged. Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. died after he was shot in west Baltimore in 2017. He was 40 and had served on the Metropolitan Police Department for 17 years. Baltimore officials announced Wednesday that…

National poetry month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, and encourages people to pay attention to and enjoy poetry. Here are some ways to celebrate around D.C.

Plan the best spring ever with these festivals in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

The nonprofit Central Union Mission, which provides food, shelter and job training to people in need, is opening its first location in Arlington amid a 17% rise in homelessness in the past year, the group’s president said. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

Breaker Sunny Choi helped celebrate the countdown to the Olympics at the TODAY Show Plaza. News4’s Jummy Olabanji reports.