Jackie Bensen

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner asked officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to explain how a U.S. citizen came to be detained and handcuffed in Manassas, Virginia, earlier this month. Jensy Machado, who says he voted for President Donald Trump, told Telemundo 44 that on March 5, ICE agents blocked in his pickup truck not…

Two Prince George’s County Public School students died from the flu, the school district superintendent confirmed to News4. The students attended CMIT North Elementary School in Laurel and John Bayne Elementary School in Capitol Heights. A third student also died recently, but it’s unclear if it was from the flu. “It’s disheartening to lose any family member, but we’re talking…

A naturalized Hispanic man says he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were looking for another person on a deportation order, and now the man is questioning his vote for President Donald Trump. Jensy Machado said he is a U.S. citizen and provided News4 documentation of his legal status. Machado said he was driving to work Wednesday…

At a rally in Rockville Thursday night, public school teachers, administrators and the head of the Montgomery County School Board advocated for full funding of next year’s school budget after the governor called for a slowdown of spending for Fiscal Year 2026. “Montgomery County has long believed in the promise of public education and in the promise of our students,”…

A Rockville man was arrested on charges that accuse him of raping a 9-year-old girl after she took trash to a bin outside her home. Charging documents in the arrest of 37-year-old Wilmer Alvarado Gomez accuse him of approaching the girl at about 7 p.m. last Thursday. She was playing outside a home on Parkland Drive in Rockville’s Wheaton Woods…

An 86-year-old Charles County man has been missing since going for his afternoon walk in chilly weather three weeks ago. LaWan Bowman said she kept her father, Richard Wilson Jr., on the phone for hours when he didn’t return home Jan. 25, trying to get him to describe his whereabouts as police from four agencies frantically searched for him on…

Extra security will be on hand for upcoming performances by the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company at the Kennedy Center after a bomb threat against the group. A threatening email claimed a bomb had been placed in the theater and would be detonated should Shen Yun be allowed to perform, according to the group’s spokesperson. Nothing was found. Thursday’s threat,…

D.C. police were involved in two unrelated shootings in less than a two-block stretch of Georgia Avenue NW on Tuesday evening, with one leaving a man dead, authorities say. A man died after he crashed into a police cruiser, tried to take an officer’s gun and then tried to carjack a woman at knifepoint, police said. Investigators describing the situation…

D.C. resident Bobby Whalen was a proud probationary employee of the National Institutes of Health. He lost his job Friday night along with what is believed to be more than 1,000 other NIH probationary employees. It was a vital job: making sure operating room instruments and equipment were clean and free of germs that could negatively affect the outcome of…

A news report about a possible Trump administration executive order to fire thousands of federal health workers is sparking anxiety in Montgomery County. Administration officials denied that such an executive order is coming, but anxiety and anger in the community remains.