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2 weeks ago | 
nbcwashington.com | Katie Leslie |Steve Jones |Jeff Piper |Derrick Cheston
By the time Amy Dant had been promoted to lieutenant in the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, the firefighter paramedic had been diagnosed with cancer twice. With no history of cancer in her family, she said she first thought she was terribly unfortunate after being diagnosed with cervical cancer at 27 years old, followed by thyroid cancer nearly a decade later. Now, she told the News4 I-Team, she believes it was caused by something else: toxic exposures she endured on the job.
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4 weeks ago | 
nbcwashington.com | Katie Leslie |Steve Jones |Derrick Cheston |Carlos Olazagasti
Research shows firefighters are at increased risk for developing cancer due to toxic exposures on the job, but while all 50 states and the District have created laws to provide benefits for firefighters with certain cancers, the News4 I-Team found many say the process in getting that help is fraught and the list of covered cancers is too narrow.
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1 month ago | 
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Katie Leslie |Steve Jones
Jack Brooks' family has been in the Maryland blue crab business on the Eastern Shore since 1890, running what they say is the oldest working crab-processing plant in the world. But even as he hands off the business to his son, Brooks said he isn't sure how much longer they can hang on. "There may be one or two survivors, but I don't think this will be one of them," Brooks said of the crab industry near his plant in Cambridge, Maryland. "One hundred and thirty-five years...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough |Andrea Swalec |Steve Jones
Gun violence is now the leading cause of death for all children and youth in the United States. In D.C., children were twice as likely to be victims or witnesses of violence compared to the national average, a study by the DC Policy Center found. Gunfire affects nearly every school in D.C. Just two of the District's 566 public and charter schools went 10 years without a single shooting nearby, a joint investigation by the News4 I-Team and The Trace Gun Violence Data Hub found.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
romesentinel.com | Steve Jones
ROME — New Hartford will be looking to defend its title at last year’s Davidson Automotive Group High School Hockey Tournament when this year’s event takes place Friday and Saturday.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough |Steve Jones
In her son Stafford's empty bedroom, Liz Nibley dropped to her knees and prayed, "God, please keep Stafford alive."The Bethesda resident didn't pray for a cure for her youngest son, only that he was still alive. "We love you. Give him another chance. We never, ever want to lose you," her prayer continued. That night came years into Nibley's fight to get her son off drugs. Stafford ran away from a drug treatment program. Liz said it wasn't the first time he had done so.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
nbcwashington.com | Caroline Tucker |Jeff Piper |Steve Jones
Malcolm Kent's parents paged through family photo albums in their home in Northern Virginia and pointed out their favorites. The pictures show the teenager together with his family and wearing his school wrestling and lacrosse uniforms. Malcolm loved sports and volunteering with children at his family's church. The Kents, a military family, had high hopes for their oldest son. But everything changed last January. Malcolm died at home in Annandale of fentanyl poisoning.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
aol.com | Steve Jones
September 4, 2024 at 9:00 AMA restaurant, bar and wedding venue has had its licence restored after it was suspended following the discovery of a cannabis farm on the premises. Calderdale Council imposed the restrictions preventing Casa Brighouse from selling alcohol or holding events after police found 2,000 cannabis plants in the building on 5 August. West Yorkshire Police arrested two people in connection with the matter, including the venue's owner Jack McDaid.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Steve Jones
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Rick Yarborough |Jeff Piper |Steve Jones
With weeks to go before the 2024 election, experts in extremism and political violence are issuing warnings to families who see loved ones gravitating toward extreme ideology. "The first thing you should do, if you believe a loved one is going down a rabbit hole, becoming radicalized is to try to assess exactly how far down the rabbit hole they are," Brian Hughes told the News4 I-Team.
