
Scott Taylor
Investigative Reporter at WJLA-TV (Arlington, VA)
Investigative Reporter at WJLA TV 7 News in DC. Awards: Multi-Emmy/Edward R. Murrow/Genesis/SPJ Dateline/AP/National Press Club TIPS: [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
wjla.com | Scott Taylor
BETHESDA, Md. (7News) — Earlier this month, the U.S. Navy shut down all experiments on cats and dogs. That specific research killed five dogs. It all comes after years of public and congressional pressure to find alternatives to animal experiments. 7News has discovered the NIH was recently planning on continuing those experiments through 2026, which would have meant another 19 beagles dead.
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1 month ago |
wjla.com | Scott Taylor
FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Last month, 7News cameras caught foul balls flying over the netting at Oakdale High School in Frederick County, smashing into homes and crashing into traffic. There's so many foul balls — parents are banning their kids from playing in their backyards. Foul balls landing in home owner's backyards. (Yakov Elizarov)"Whenever the game starts here, we ensure our kids aren't coming to the backyard.
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1 month ago |
wjla.com | Scott Taylor
WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — D.C.'s Department of Buildings (DOB) is telling 7News it is coming after landlords, who are allowing their tenants to live in rat-infested and dilapidated apartments in the district, in a much different way. Director Brian Hanlon says the DOB has created a new inspection initiative targeting specific landlords who are not following the DC Housing code, specifically those who have thousands of violations. Hanlon's department is ramping up re-inspections and enforcement.
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1 month ago |
wjla.com | Scott Taylor
WASHINGTON (7News) — According to his work bio, which is online at History Makers, Elias Rodriguez lives in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago. That's where law enforcement visited on Thursday morning in Chicago. 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez was seen pacing in front of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington moments before two Israeli embassy employees, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were shot and killed.
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1 month ago |
wjla.com | Scott Taylor
Crews standing on the W & OD trail after cutting down trees. (7News)
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