Rick Yarborough
Senior Investigative Producer at WRC-TV (Washington, DC)
Senior Investigative Producer for NBC Washington. Husband, Carolina Boy & Dolly's #1 fan. Send tips: [email protected].
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3 weeks ago |
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough |Steve Jones
Six months into 2025, 19 D.C. firefighters reported being assaulted on the job. That's almost once a week on average. Firefighter-paramedic Dave Brown was one of them, in an attack caught on video. Just before 8:30am May 8, DC Fire & EMS was called to a corner in Chinatown for an unconscious man who appeared to have fallen off his rented bicycle.
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1 month ago |
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough
Former Culpeper County, Virginia, sheriff Scott Jenkins was expected in federal prison on Tuesday but will no longer head there, after a Memorial Day pardon by President Donald Trump. A jury convicted Jenkins in December in a yearslong bribes-for-badges scheme the News4 I-Team has covered extensively. We've heard from sources and from Jenkins himself, speaking on a podcast, that he wanted a pardon and was encouraging people he knew to help make it happen.
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1 month ago |
nbcchicago.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough |Jeff Piper
Just hours before he was reportedly due to report to federal prison, President Donald Trump said he was pardoning former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins. A jury found Jenkins guilty back in December in a bribes-for-badges scheme. A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The News4 I-team first reported the federal investigation into Jenkins before he was indicted. Since his conviction, Jenkins maintained he did nothing wrong and campaigned for Trump’s attention on at least one podcast.
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1 month ago |
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough |Jeff Piper
The Chesapeake Bay is the healthiest it has been, according to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 2024 Report Card gave the Bay a C+ - a grade the Bay hasn't received since 2002. But conservationists and advocates told the News4 I-Team they've never experienced anything like the chaos and proposed cuts of the past five months. According to those experts, it is already putting decades of environmental progress in jeopardy.
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1 month ago |
nbcwashington.com | Susan Hogan |Rick Yarborough
For a while, the road to driving a fully electric vehicle was gaining speed, with tax credits helping to fuel sales and dealer incentives driving up interest. "They were like, 'Hey, we have a two-year incentive to give you free charging with Electrify America,'" EV driver Antonio Zorrilla, of Falls Church, Virginia, said. That sold Zorilla, who said it's been easy to stay on the road in the D.C. area with just a 30-minute charge.
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RT @nbcwashington: Just In: Former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted…
RT @tednbc4: Former Culpeper Sheriff Scott Jenkins sentenced to a decade in federal prison in bribes for badges case. Judge: “The jury deci…
