Good News

The St. Agnes school community in Arlington, Virginia, is buzzing about a teacher’s heroic actions during a field trip to Baltimore.

Students from St. Agnes School in Arlington were on a field trip to Baltimore when science teacher T.J. O’Leary sprang into action to save a father and son from the water. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

The triple transplant performed was one of only about 80 done nationwide over the last 20 years.

After providing memories over the holiday season, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will leave a lasting legacy for one family for years to come.

News4’s Jummy Olabanji surprised the News4 team with some very special breaking news: She’s pregnant!

As rain soaked the North Bay early Tuesday morning, a Marin County sheriff’s deputy successfully pulled a driver out of a car submerged in a flooded creek in a rescue that was captured on the deputy’s body camera.

A police officer in New Jersey sprang into action after an 11-year-old boy walked out onto the ice of a frozen pond, then fell into the frigid waters below.

The news can be tough in a world often marked by suffering, disaster and war. Sometimes you need to stop and remember that good things happen all the time, all across the world, and 2024 was no different.

The nonprofit cafe Emma’s Torch, which opened in D.C. earlier this year, offers paid job training and English lessons for refugees. News4’s Aimee Cho speaks to the founder, a trainer and an employee about how it’s going.

When Yevin Goonatilake began taking classes at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, when he was just 13, he didn’t want to draw attention to his age. Like many other students during the pandemic, at first he wore a mask. “I was still, like, a decent height, so no one, no one knew that I was younger,” he said. “I…

A 15-year-old graduated from George Mason University Thursday. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports when most kids were starting fifth grade, he was taking college course.

A woman in the Sunshine State says she was let go from her job over an act of kindness.

An Illinois officer is being hailed a hero after he jumped into action within minutes when a pregnant woman called 911 to say her brakes had suddenly stopped working and she was quickly approaching a lake.

Spenser Critteron — now a 28-year-old pilot — never dreamed he’d one day fly a plane he’d posed with as a teen.

Now a 28-year-old commercial pilot, Spenser Critterton never dreamed he’d one day fly the exact same plane, down to the registration number, that he’d posed with back when he was a teen fascinated by aviation. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports.

Gloria Lewis, 21, recently reunited with the firefighters who took her in as a newborn after her birth mother gave her up in 2003 by bringing her to a firehouse just days after she was born.