Investigations

Unemployment fraud continues to be a monumental problem nationwide. In Virginia alone, more than $100 million of taxpayer money was paid out to fraudsters since the start of the pandemic, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

For many families, cancer is the fight of their lives, but the News4 I-Team found some are having to endure another fight they never expected: getting their treatment covered by insurance.

Everyone’s been told to read the fine print, but what if a customer doesn’t get that fine print until after a service is already completed and then ends up having a problem? Montgomery County’s Office of Consumer Protection is warning customers about such language.

A former student from Duke Ellington School of the Arts is suing the school; the Washington, D.C., school district; and the man she says sexually abused her while he was her teacher.

D.C. Public Schools says it plans to assume full operation of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and is in discussions for what that transition would look like.

Adults have gotten the message that it’s safer for kids to ride in the back seat properly restrained, but when it comes to their own safety, there is a common misperception that buckling up is optional.

Quite a bit has been said about wireless carriers upgrading to 5G, but what hasn’t gotten much attention is getting rid of older 3G technology to make room for it and other advanced network services.

The News4 I-Team recently heard from patients concerned they never got their test results after visiting a local pop-up site in Maryland.

Former teachers from one of D.C.’s most prestigious high schools are speaking out about allegations of abuse uncovered by the News4 I-Team. They say administrators at Duke Ellington School of the Arts knew more than they first indicated about Mark Williams, a teacher accused of abusing two students a decade apart.

Ransomware attacks have doubled in each of the past two years, according to a new report from the nonprofit group Identity Theft Resource Center, and the group said hackers demanding payment could become the number one cause of data compromises this year, surpassing phishing schemes.

A D.C. Council member is calling for changes in oversight at Duke Ellington School of the Arts just days after a News4 I-Team investigation raised questions about how the school, the school district and police handled sex abuse claims against the same teacher years apart.

Washington, D.C.’s acclaimed Duke Ellington School of the Arts admits it failed to keep personnel files or human resources records on its teachers prior to 2017, which may have hindered how it handled two sex abuse claims against the same teacher a decade apart, an investigation by the News4 I-Team found.

D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department has assigned a new detective to investigate two abuse allegations against a former Duke Ellington School of the Arts writing teacher, Mark Williams, filed 14 years apart. Neither resulted in charges.