Investigations

Many communities offer cash rewards for tips from the public to solve difficult cases, but the News4 I-Team found there’s little scrutiny of how effective those programs are.

You can buy just about anything on platforms like Facebook Marketplace, Ebay and Craigslist — but how do you know you’re getting the whole truth from the seller before you hand over your money?

A D.C. family was hoping for their loved one to be released this month after serving 12 years in prison for armed carjacking and robbery – crimes he committed as a teen in 2012. Instead, 29-year-old Robert Jeter is dead, and his family is fighting to find out what led to his passing in federal custody last fall. “I have…

For at least seven months in 2020 and 2021, the D.C. area’s largest police department was the only legal gun dealer in the nation’s capital. It was the only place D.C. residents could legally get a handgun. That much was reported at the time, but now the News4 I-Team has the federal documents proving a concerning number of guns...

D.C. taxpayers still don’t know the finer details of this deal. But D.C.’s elected leaders do, because they heard about them in a meeting the public had no idea about.

Since the cargo ship Dali collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, engineers have differed on whether anything could have been done to protect it. Here’s what some experts say.