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A blaze tore through the Victorian roof of a historic Chula Vista home, built in the late 1880s, and injured a firefighter trying to stop it on Monday. The fire started at about 8:30 a.m. at the Hancil Cordrey Residence near 2nd Avenue and F Street, one of the few remaining original Victorian homes built during Chula Vista’s early...

This Victorian home went up in flames Monday. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has details.

Karl Reichstetter says it all started as a crazy experiment. “I had access to my sister’s piano, and she lived in Bernal (Heights) at the time,” he said. “We just decided we would haul it up the hill about 200 feet from her apartment and see what happened.”

A historic mission in San Diego – the first-ever of its kind built in California – will continue ringing in its 250th anniversary this weekend with its “Festival of the Bells.”

Thursday’s event is one of several taking place in 2019 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of San Diego, California

A body discovered over the weekend in a wooded area of Fredericksburg, Virginia, is that of a 16-year-old boy and authorities believe he was murdered in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

A historic mission in San Diego – the first-ever of its kind built in California – will host a festival this weekend highlighting its Spanish and Native American roots as the landmark turns 250 years old.

A historic mission in San Diego – the first-ever of its kind built in California – turns 250 this year, and the landmark’s milestone anniversary will kick off Thursday with a special ceremony.

The historic Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala turns 250 years old Thursday. Celebrations are planned throughout 2019 to mark the landmark’s milestone anniversary.

U.S. troops will not leave northeastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected, a top White House aide said Sunday, signaling a pause to a withdrawal abruptly announced last month and initially expected to be completed within weeks. While U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said there is now no timetable, President Donald Trump...

The leasing rights for Liberty Station have been sold but a historic, onsite chapel – which has been the topic of controversy – will remain a place of worship despite new ownership, a city spokesperson said.

Reports of rodents in the West Wing, frigid temperatures at the Department of Veterans Affairs and a bathroom mishap by a Cabinet secretary have prompted repair requests in Washington, D.C. federal buildings in the past two years.

The National Park Service is exploring whether to require protest organizers to pay for the cost of providing law enforcement and other support services for demonstrations held in the nation’s capital.

Sen. John McCain’s final journey ended Sunday on a grassy hill at the U.S. Naval Academy within view of the Severn River and earshot of midshipmen present and future, and alongside a lifelong friend. A horse-drawn caisson carrying the senator’s casket led a procession of mourners from the academy’s chapel to its cemetery following a private service. The senator’s widow,...

The 77-year-old driver behind the wheel of the school bus that crashed last week while trying to make a sudden U-turn in a highway median last week has been charged with causing the deaths of a student and teacher aboard, law enforcement sources tell News 4.

The school bus driver from the deadly May 17 crash in New Jersey had a lengthy history of license suspensions and moving violations, a spokeswoman for the Motor Vehicle Commission told News 4.

Sources say video from a DOT camera shows the school bus filled with fifth-graders in Thursday’s deadly wreck in New Jersey making a sudden U-turn in a median.

Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a day of racial violence in Selma dating to 1965. A bipartisan group including Rep. John Lewis of Georgia led the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was to recall “Bloody Sunday,” when voting rights protesters were attacked by police as they...

The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump’s presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump’s own making. In the same week that he honored King by making a national park out of the ground where King was born and preached until his death, Trump denigrated practically the entire African diaspora, and left many Americans headed...

White House work orders obtained by News4 include reports of mice and roaches in the West Wing and requests for a new toilet seat for the Oval Office bathroom and a decorator for H.R. McMaster.