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D.C. Water is touting new pumping capacity and a third active flume as signs of progress at the site of the massive Potomac sewer pipe break, even as the utility warns the threat of another overflow won’t subside until a rock dam inside the damaged pipe is removed. The...

Local news is alive and well in the D.C. area. The layoffs at the Washington Post earlier this month were a major blow to coverage of sports, courts, transportation and other topics for which the Post was one of the few outlets (or only outlet) to have dedicated local beat reporters. But it was not a death blow to...

A man is dead after he was found shot outside a gas station in Washington, D.C., in broad daylight on Friday.

Purple and white balloons filled the courtyard at Park Crest Gardens Apartments during a vigil for Rayven Edwards, the 34-year-old who was gunned down outside the building where she lived with he three children.

The DC Police Department has issued a critical alert for a missing 14-year-old girl, Camila Perdomo. Perdomo was last seen on the 1600 Block of Park Road, Northwest, last Thursday. The department turned to social media in hopes of gathering any information that could assist in locating her. They have asked anyone...

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WASHINGTON — Over the weekend, crews with WSSC worked for hours to contain a sanitary sewer overflow in Adelphi. The overflow was detected at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday near Cherry Mill Drive. It took crews nearly six hours to contain the overflow; by then, an estimated 10,386 gallons of...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. (7News) — There are concerns in Prince George's County about what could be ahead for the school district's foreign language immersion programs. 7News spoke to parents and the Academic Dean of the Chinese Immersion program at Paint Branch Elementary in College Park. They're worried about...

MARYLAND — A man was killed and three others were injured in a shooting late Monday night outside Mondawmin Mall in Baltimore, police said. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of the TGI Friday’s restaurant in the 2400 block of Liberty Heights Avenue. Two vehicles at the scene were heavily damaged. Baltimore...

Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last month, resulted in an overflow of roughly 243 million gallons of wastewater as of Feb. 6, according to DC Water....