Fire Destroys Leesburg Home
Firefighters battled a fire in Leesburg, Va., that destroyed a home and was hot enough to melt the siding of a nearby home Thursday afternoon. Two firefighters from Loudoun County Fire Rescue suffered...
View ArticleCheck Out RGIII's New Home
Robert Griffin III is now a northern Virginia resident. The Redskins quarterback just bought a $2.5 million home in Loudoun County. Located in the Creighton Farms golf course community, the home has...
View ArticleMilitary Chopper's Emergency Landing at School
A military helicopter made an unplanned landing on the field of an elementary school in Medford, N.J., Tuesday afternoon, NBCPhiladlephia reported. The chopper, which belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps,...
View ArticleLast Flying B-29 Lands in Manassas
A piece of living history landed in Manassas, Va., this week. The Boeing B-29 super fortress is the same kind of plane that dropped atomic bombs in World War II, and it’s the only one that's still...
View ArticleBusiness Leaders Back "Outer Beltway" in Virginia
Business leaders in northern Virginia throw their support behind plans to build a new "outer beltway” that would connect Interstate 95 in Prince William County, Interstate 66 in Manassas and Dulles...
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Woman Abandoned as Newborn Meets Rescuer 62 Years Later
Abandoned as a newborn, a 62-year-old woman has returned to the Northern California city of Concord in search of her birth mother. Kira Derhgawen was left in the passenger seat of a parked car,...
View ArticleWorker Pleads in Disneyland Dry Ice Blasts
A Disneyland worker pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges involving two dry-ice explosions that forced evacuations at Disneyland’s popular Toontown. Christian Isaiah Barnes, 22, of Long Beach,...
View ArticleNails Strewn on Beltway Cause Flat Tires
Several drivers had to pull over Thursday evening when their tires went flat along the Beltway. According to Maryland Safety Highway Administration officials, nails on the highway caused "several" cars...
View ArticleSlain Drug Cartel Lawyer Was U.S. Informant
The Mexican drug cartel attorney who was slain execution-style in Southlake last week had been a confidential informant for the U.S. government, law enforcement sources told NBC 5. Juan Guerrero Chapa,...
View ArticlePolice Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing at H.S.
A Howard County Police Department helicopter had to make an emergency landing on a high school football field after suffering a mechanical failure. Four flight officers were responding to a call just...
View ArticleMan With Injuries Outside Church Died of Natural Causes
A man who walked up to a Chevy Chase church with a bleeding leg Thursday died of natural causes, according to officials. Police were called to All Saints Church on Chevy Chase Circle north of...
View ArticleJames and Heat Take Game 5, 90-79
LeBron James has given the Miami Heat a number of performances for the ages in his three years with the team, and he delivered another for Miami against the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of the Eastern...
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"One of the Big Ones" on Course for Earth Fly-By
Scientists and amateur astronomers are tracking a 1.7-mile-wide asteroid on course to sail past Earth as it makes a wide U-turn on the way back toward the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter....
View ArticleNY Teen Breaks "German Curse" to Win Spelling Bee
After finishing third each of the last two years, Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old from Queens, New York, won the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee by finally conquering a word of German origin. He...
View ArticleWeekend Metro Work Affects All 5 Lines
There's no avoiding Metro work this weekend -- crews will be working on all five lines. The Dupont Circle and Farragut North station on the Red Line will be closed beginning at 10 p.m. Friday and...
View ArticleSchools Offer New STD App for Students 7th Grade and Up
A tool that lets sexually active people receive and share their STD testing results digitally is now available to junior high and high school students in the Los Angeles School District. Qpid.me relays...
View ArticleStarbucks Bans Smoking Within 25 Feet of Shops
Coffee and cigarettes, for some, are an inseparable pair. But if that coffee is from Starbucks, smokers will have to take a walk if they want to light up. Cigarettes and their electronic counterparts...
View ArticleWhole Foods One Step Closer to Prince George's
Whole Foods is one step closer to coming to Prince George's County. The Prince George's County Planning Board approved the $250 million Cafritz project Thursday night. The proposal will now go to the...
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"Mayday, Mayday": Calls From Crashing Plane
"Mayday, mayday — engine out," said the pilot, in a controlled voice, to air controllers as his small plane struggled to stay aloft early Friday morning. In audio files obtained by News4 Washington,...
View ArticleVa. High School Band Selected for Rose Parade
A Chantilly high school has been selected to perform in the 2014 Tournament of Roses Parade. The Westfield High School Band will be only the third Virginia band to perform in the parade's 125 year...
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