The San Francisco Chronicle and The Chauncey Bailey Project report that Yusuf Ali Bey IV, leader of the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery, was indicted by an Alameda County grand jury.
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Girl’s death leads to scrutiny of police department
April 29th, 2009 
Beth The Fayetteville Observer investigated a police department’s mishandling of a child abuse case. The department’s actions ultimately led to its loss of felony arrest powers, scrutiny from the Cumberland County district attorney and a grand jury probe of corruption.
Unescorted prisoners transferred on public buses
April 29th, 2009 Beth An investigation by KSTP-Minneapolis/St. Paul discovered that federal prisoners are being transferred unescorted on public buses unbeknown to the bus companies or the public.
Airports with high rates of bird strikes pinpointed
April 28th, 2009 Beth National Public Radio combined the Federal Aviation Administration’s wildlife-strike reports with airport activity figures to calculate airport “strike rates,” an industry measure that is not publicly available and that standardizes bird strikes according to the amount of traffic at an airport. They also provided an interactive map for Web users to find out strike rates [...]
New teachers twice as likely to teach in poor D.C. neighborhoods
April 27th, 2009 Beth “Students in the region’s poorest neighborhoods are nearly twice as likely to have a new or second-year teacher as those in the wealthiest, a Washington Post analysis has found. The pattern means some of the neediest students attend schools that double as teacher training grounds.”
Cities and county failed to inspect fire hydrants
April 27th, 2009 Beth An investigation by Matt Dixon of The Villages Daily Sun (The Villages, Fla.) revealed that fire hydrants in Sumter County have not been regularly inspected. A request for maintenance records by the paper revealed that none existed. Municipalities county-wide had been under the impression that the county was responsible for the maintenance of fire hydrants.
Newspaper reveals problems with narcotics-related warrants
April 24th, 2009 Beth Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker of the Philadelphia Daily News report that, “Again and again, supervisors in the Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit signed off on cookie-cutter applications for search warrants, which are now the subject of an expanding FBI and police Internal Affairs Bureau investigation.”
Tip leads to police corruption probe
April 23rd, 2009 Beth Tony Kennedy and Paul McEnroe of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis wrote a four-part narrative investigation, “The Informant,” to chronicle a public corruption probe of Minneapolis police. Federal agents and the Minneapolis Police Department launched the investigation in late 2006 after an informant’s tip alleging that police officers were providing gang leaders with confidential police [...]
Poisoned Waters
April 22nd, 2009 Beth Poisoned Waters, a two-hour special by PBS Frontline, looks at the nation’s two great coastal estuaries – the Chesapeake Bay and the Puget Sound – as case studies for water quality. Examining the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem, the production team looked at U.S. Geological Survey databases for dozens of emerging chemicals [...]
Tracking pharmaceuticals in waterways inadequate
April 21st, 2009 Beth Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard of The Associated Press report that, “U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked.” The scant tracking by the federal government of pharmaceuticals released into waterways [...]
