Pat Collins

A vandal with a bone to pick spray-painted “Mike is a cheater” on an SUV parked in Washington, D.C. But it wasn’t Mike’s car.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a banana? Ten years ago News4’s Pat Collins dressed up as grapes to rescue 14-year-old Bryan Thompson from a school suspension after he ran across the football field at half time in a banana costume.  “In 48 years I have been a reporter on TV, I have done thousands of stories, but...

A 16-year-old boy charged with killing four people and committing several other violent crimes in D.C. was released from custody just weeks before the homicides because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, sources tell News4.  Michael Mason, of Southeast D.C., was arrested last week and charged in the killings of 31 year-old Terrance Griffin, 20-year-old Jaszel Henderson,...

Video shows three suspects, punching, kicking and pepper-spraying employees while trying to steal wigs from a store in Silver Spring, Maryland.

An 18-year-old man previously arrested and charged in the death of a 16-year-old girl in D.C. is at large, police say.

A school resource officer accidentally fired his gun inside a middle school in Alexandria, Virginia, during school hours on Tuesday, police say. No one was hurt.

The man who shot a congressman, a congressional staffer, a Capitol Police special agent and a lobbyist lived in a white cargo van in Alexandria for months. News4’s Pat Collins reports on what we know about James Hodgkinson.