Investigations

Multiple federal law enforcement officials and sources confirm a former Southwest Airlines pilot is being charged with committing a “lewd” indecent act mid-flight from Philadelphia to Orlando in August.

A February incident in the nuclear reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg potentially emitted more radioactive material than initially thought, according to federal records reviewed by the News4 I-Team. Though well below safety limits, the agency said its further review of the mishap found samples of radioacti...

National PTA leaders are asking the Maryland attorney general to review the Maryland PTA. The National PTA revoked Maryland’s charter last week after a report by Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team.

The National Parent Teacher Association revoked the charter of its Maryland chapter three days after a News4 I-Team investigation revealed a series of allegations of mismanagement and a series of recent criminal charges against the Maryland PTA president in unrelated cases.

The Justice Department is accusing a Florida man of being part of the planning and organizing of the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Scott MacFarlane reports on how and when the planning might have started.

The president of the Maryland PTA is defending herself against criminal charges of theft in Maryland and Washington, D.C., as she also tries to save the embattled organization from a takeover by national PTA leaders.

Kevin Onyona spent more than a year and nearly $2 million to launch a restaurant in downtown D.C. Within days of opening, the pandemic set in.

News4 has obtained a copy of security and body camera video, which prosecutors said shows Emanuel Jackson of Maryland attempting to beat police with a metal baseball bat during the U.S. Capitol Insurrection on Jan. 6.

The Department of Health and Human Services is walking back an effort to remove the leading vaccine injury from a program that compensates victims.

As the District launched its new system to register for a COVID-19 vaccine this week, it also announced major changes to help ensure more doses go to people who actually live there.

During the same week the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Maryland in March 2020, state health officials alerted each other of the outbreak of another dangerous illness, according to internal emails and public records obtained by the News4 I-Team. The state faced a fast-rising number of congenital syphilis cases last spring — a spike that was potential...

The Washington DC VA Medical Center is trying to reopen its troubled mammography program.  The flagship hospital of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has suffered a series of setbacks in providing breast cancer screenings for hundreds of its patients since the summer of 2019, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.  ...

With in-person visits suspended at Maryland prisons during the pandemic, officials say they are seeing an increase in contraband in the mail. The News4 I-Team’s Scott MacFarlane reports.