Tracee Wilkins

Maryland State Police are hoping to settle a U.S. Justice Department investigation into alleged racial discrimination by paying more than $2.7 million to those affected.

A federal judge ruled that an employment discrimination lawsuit brought against Maryland State Police has merit and can move forward, after the police department tried to have the case dismissed.

An ACLU report found Black people are overwhelmingly more likely to be searched by D.C. police.

When people in the District are sentenced to longer sentences, they can be held in federal prisons anywhere in the country. For more than a year, the News4 I-Team has investigated how some of those inmates say they’re often targeted. Since the I-Team started looking into the issue, the recent deaths of two D.C. men were listed as homicides.

For weeks, a private investigator followed Prince George’s County Councilmember Ingrid Watson, who represents District 4. He documented her coming and going from a home outside of her district in Upper Marlboro, but she told News4 she still lives in District 4.

Lawsuit: Money for surrogates disappears; businesswoman turned rapper blamed

People trying to begin or grow their families through surrogacy say they lost thousands of dollars. Surrogates have been left unpaid, and families in our region and around the globe are in limbo according to a lawsuit. Investigative Reporter Tracee Wilkins explains why civil suits and an FBI investigation are focused on one Houston businesswoman turned rapper.

The District has some of the most restrictive record-sealing policies in the country, preventing thousands from moving forward from their past. A new law that…

With early voting in Maryland’s Senate primary beginning this week, leading Democratic candidates Angela Alsobrooks and David Trone are highlighting their differences – including key endorsements — in a race where their policies are closely aligned. Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s county executive, and Trone, a businessman-turned-congressman, share similar views when it comes to reproductive rights, a repeal of the federal…

A Maryland man is facing a federal conspiracy charge in an alleged scheme to sell fake nursing degrees. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland’s…