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A D.C. man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for a deadly arson spree in 2020, the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. announced.

WASHINGTON (7News) — After three years leading D.C.'s Office of Unified Communications (OUC), Heather McGaffin is preparing to take a new position in Alexandria, Virginia, leaving behind an agency with significantly faster emergency call-answering times but continuing questions about dispatch errors, transparency and public accountability. McGaffin took over the...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Northern Virginia family filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Alexandria and two of its police officers after their son died while in police custody. What we know:. The lawsuit was filed by Sandra Jones on what would have been the 34th birthday of her...

Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute — Approximate Award Presentation Site. Russ Sullivan became the legal guardian of 22 young people in the Washington, D.C., area over the years, raising 21 boys and one girl who mostly arrived in his home as teenagers. Every one of them went on to college or trade school, and more than 25 young people in total became part of his extended family. On September 29, Sullivan received the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's brand-new Lifetime A

One fire, one covered lot, 27 work trucks. The blaze behind a Verizon-occupied building in Waldorf, Maryland, early Sunday morning took out a whole fleet. A passerby spotted flames at 3:09 a.m. on October 18 in the rear parking area at 3 Industrial Park Drive. That’s according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s notice of investigation. By the time it was over, 27 commercial vehicles, everything inside them, and the roof over their parking area were damaged or destroyed. The marshal’s office pu

The company behind a long-planned medical campus at Washington's Reservoir District says that plan is no longer workable, and it wants permission to fill roughly 1 million square feet of approved healthcare space with something else entirely — housing, offices, a hotel, even a college building. Trammell Crow Company has filed a request to modify the 2018 approval governing two undeveloped parcels at the former McMillan Sand Filtration Site, a signal that one of the District's marquee redevelopme

The family of a 32-year-old man who died in Alexandria Police Department custody last summer has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the officers involved in his arrest. The family of Allan Tucker II is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for relief...

Police closed both directions of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and M Street.

Biff Poggi has expressed his interest in taking over as the next head coach of the Maryland Terrapins. After a disappointing 2-5 start to the season, the program fired Mike Locksley on Wednesday after seven full seasons. Aazaar Abdul-Rahim was named interim coach until the program finds a suitable replacement.

A powerful l El Niño is taking shape in the Pacific Ocean, and it could influence everything from temperatures to precipitation this winter thousands of miles away in Washington DC. The developing weather phenomenon has been labeled a "behemoth" and is forecast to rank among the strongest El Niño events observed in decades. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest winter outlook offers a glimpse of what DC could expect, though snowfall totals remain uncertain. What is El Niño