Maryland

For the past two decades, residents of Indian Head, Maryland, had to travel almost 10 miles to pick up their essential groceries, but that changed in the fall when a couple opened a new food market to meet that need in a food desert. Mark and Marilyn Steele hadn’t planned to own a food market, but they knew the need…

Accessibility to grocery stores is an issue for people in some of the rural parts of the area, including Indian Head, Maryland, which is why a couple there opened a new food market. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Maryland lawmakers ended the legislative session Monday night, approving a $67 billion budget that includes $1.6 billion in tax and fee increases, as well as cuts to erase a structural deficit. State legislators faced a $3.3 billion deficit and hundreds of millions in cuts from the Trump administration. The approved budget includes a 3% IT services tax and increases in…

Maryland lawmakers ended the legislative session Monday night, approving a $67 billion budget that includes $1.6 billion in tax and fee increases, as well as cuts to erase a structural deficit. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Sad, alone and angry. That’s how Maryland mother Ondraya Graves says she felt after she learned the man accused of killing her daughter was being offered a plea deal. “I actually was at work when they called and so my heart dropped and was very sad… it just made me feel alone…” Graves said. “Essentially he would get away...

A Maryland mother worries her daughter, who was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. in November, won’t get justice after the accused killer accepted a plea deal. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

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Alex Ovechkin is skating into the week as the new GOAT – greatest of all time – in the world of hockey, and Capital One Arena is opening The Ovi Shop on Monday so fans can commemorate the major milestone. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports.

RespectFest in Montgomery County brings awareness to safety in teen relationships. News4’s Molette Green and Melissa Mollet talks to Ava’Marie Arnold, a student finalist in the video contest, the county’s state’s attorney and the county’s sheriff about the event. 

A federal judge said the Trump administration has three days to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a notorious prison in El Salvador. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A federal judge said Friday the government must secure the return of a Prince George’s County, Maryland, man who Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted it deported in error.

A judge will consider on Friday the case of a Maryland man who ICE admits was deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison in error. His wife said, “Kilmar, if you can hear me … I miss you so much … and I’m doing the best to fight for you and our children.” News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Some people incarcerated in Maryland’s prisons may have a chance to have their sentences reduced through a bill being considered now. The Second Look Act would allow younger offenders who have served at least 20 years in prison to ask to judge to release them. The bill has sparked heated debate in Annapolis. “Second Look is not a get-out-of-jail free…

Maryland lawmakers are considering the Second Look Act, which would allow younger offenders who’ve served at least 20 years to ask a judge to release them. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to critics and supporters of the bill.

The Prince George’s County Police Department is celebrating the opening of a new Special Operations Division Headquarters. News4’s Megan McGrath explains why it will help police collaborate more efficiently.

An attorney representing a Maryland man who ICE says it wrongfully deported to El Salvador says he has never seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. government admit to making such a mistake but refuse to correct the error. Kilmar Abrego Garcia had just finished work March 12 and was on his way to a bus stop to pick…

Maryland lawmakers are considering several bills to increase energy supply and control its high cost for consumers. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Linen World has been a family-run business in Oxon Hill for decades, but the owners say that competition has made it hard to keep going.

A California man’s attorneys say he’ll plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Nicholas John Roske say he intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States at a hearing next week. The charge carries...

The attorney for a Beltsville man wrongfully deported to El Salvador said he has never seen the government make such a statement but then refuse to correct the error. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.