WVUE-TV spent two years digging through tens of thousands of pages of documents that uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in oil leases still being paid to descendants of late Governor Huey Long, Louisiana's governor is 1934. 

WVUE-TV linked to all of the source documents through DocumentCloud and also linked to biographies they put together on the key players in this story.   This is part 1 of a multi-part series

"Thousands of vacant homes across South Florida have deteriorated into eyesores that violate local health and safety laws, depress property values and spread blight. The owners of these homes: some of the world's biggest banks."

"In an extensive investigation of foreclosed homes plaguing neighborhoods, the Sun Sentinel found more than 10,300 property code violations lodged against banks in 10 South Florida cities since 2007."

In a joint investigation The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer published the first of a five-part series that looks into the state's nonprofit hospitals. The series, "Prognosis: Profits," shows how urban hospitals are piling up huge profits and driving up the cost of health care.

"Reuters Enterprise team published, “Special Report: Chesapeake CEO took $1.1 billion in shrouded personal loans,” an investigation into how previously undisclosed loans to Chesapeake Energy Corp’s co-founder Aubrey McClendon could put the company’s CEO and shareholders at odds."

The Seattle Times takes a look, in a four-part series, at how Amazon.com, "one of the Internet's most-recognized name brands" compares to other big companies in the Seattle area when it comes to local charitable givings.

"Last year, amid a troubled economy, United Way of King County said it received record donations from some of the area's largest companies.
Microsoft made a corporate donation of $4 million. Boeing gave $3.1 million. Nordstrom, nearly $320,000. And Amazon.com? Zero."

Aly Van Dyke of The Topeka Capital Journal has found, using computer-assisted reporting, a startling connection between property values and the city of Topeka's, as well as any city's, health.

Using the data she collected, Van Dyke has included a slide-show of the 50 highest-valued homes in Topeka's county and a database to search residential properties with a map of the highest property values in the Topeka and surrounding areas.

An expired federal program aimed to benefit former logging communities means massive budget wholes for hundreds of schools and communities across the country, an investigation by California Watch found.

The Secure Rural Schools and Communities Self-Determination Act provided nearly $3.8 billion for schools and roads in more than 700 counties in 42 states in the past decade, but the fund will be out of money by the year's end.

The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, along with the Miami Herald and Florida NPR, has found that "since the collapse of the economy in 2008, Florida’s student population has become poorer each year, with almost all school districts in the state experiencing spikes in the number of kids who qualify for subsidized meals."

"The Center also found that children have become homeless at an alarming rate as well, with an 84 percent increase since 2007."

In a special report from Reuters it has been found that at least two countries offer what is known as citizenship by investment, burgeoning programs that bestow on foreigners the benefits of being a citizen - namely, a passport - for a price. The main appeal for the wealthy, escaping taxes.