WASHINGTON (AP) - Four candidates for an at-large D.C. Council seat will be sitting down for their first televised debate.

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Incumbents Vincent Orange and Michael A. Brown and challengers Mary Brooks Beatty and David Grosso will appear on NewsChannel 8's "NewsTalk" program on Thursday.

Two at-large seats are being contested this November, and the top two vote-getters win.

Orange is expected to win election easily as the only Democrat on the ballot.

But the second contested seat is reserved for a non-majority party. Brown and Grosso are independents, and Beatty is a Republican.

Grosso is the best-funded candidate for that seat after Brown reported that the entire balance of his campaign account was stolen.

Police are investigating the missing money.

Three additional at-large candidates will debate on the program next week.