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Security preparations for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix have tightened across downtown, where no‑parking restrictions began two weeks ago and most routes are now closed for race operations.
U.S. Capitol Police headquarters was evacuated temporarily Friday morning after officers located a suspicious vehicle nearby.
Friday brings sunny, warm conditions with highs in the low 80s, but the quiet weather will be short‑lived as showers and storms move in late tonight and through Saturday.
Just in time for Montgomery County Public Schools’ first day back next week, the district is celebrating the opening of multiple new school facilities.
The FOX 5 crew kept the summer fun going with its latest Zip Trip stop at The Wharf, one of D.C.’s most popular waterfront neighborhoods.
A man dressed as “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader spoke up at a California city council meeting on the decision to acquire Flock cameras.
FOX 5 got a first‑look preview of a lap around the Freedom 250 Grand Prix course from the driver’s seat as Steve Chenevey jumped into a pace car and took a spin around the Washington, D.C. track.
D.C. police have announced two Juvenile Curfew Zones in effect from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday, Aug. 21, through Saturday, Aug. 22, in the Brightwood/Emery Heights Zone and the Banneker Rec Center/U Street Zone.
Eight passengers on board a charter plane were killed after the aircraft crashed in a remote part of western Alaska, according to military officials.
A likely tornado touched down in Dover, Delaware, causing significant damage across the city, police said. Authorities reported no serious injuries.
Lightning struck two people in Cape Charles, Virginia, Thursday, leaving a man dead and a woman injured, according to FOX Weather.
A substitute teacher in Louisiana was arrested after authorities say she triggered false active shooter alerts at five schools, prompting security responses across the district.
Less than a week after two U.S. Army soldiers were killed in a deadly crash in Bell County, the U.S. Army has resumed training missions involving Apache helicopters.
Conor Kennedy was placed on Russia’s wanted list for allegedly assisting Ukraine during the war after secretly joining its International Legion in 2022 before returning to the United States.
President Trump will ride around the Freedom 250 Grand Prix track in his motorcade before the race begins on Sunday, a White House official confirmed.
A domestic shooting in Bowie, Maryland, left a mother of six in critical condition Thursday evening and led to the arrest of a suspect, according to city police.
The family of the “Godfather of Go-Go," Chuck Brown, has pulled their support for this weekend’s “Chuck Brown Day," one of D.C.’s biggest celebrations of Go-Go music.
A Virginia elected official is facing criminal charges after an argument that turned physical followed a public hearing.
A South Dakota mayor and his two children were involved in a paraglider crash northeast of Aberdeen on Wednesday, leaving his 8-year-old child dead.
Investigators have identified a 76-year-old woman as the victim in a deadly home explosion in Annapolis Wednesday that also left a man injured.
