http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Extra! Extra! is your guide to the latest investigative work. Send comments and suggestions to extraextra@ire.org. en-us support@ire.org 2008-04-28T14:45:11-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_04.html A series by The Washington Post explores the causes and implications of the current global food crisis, the likes of which have not been seen since the 1970s. "A complex combination of poor harvests, competition with biofuels, higher energy prices,... 2231@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ International 2008-04-28T14:45:11-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_11.html The last three decades have seen the Seminole Tribe of Florida ascend from extreme poverty to substantial wealth thanks to their lucrative Indian gaming endeavors. A South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation found that, while this wealth is shared throughout the tribe,... 2138@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Business 2007-11-28T15:33:47-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_10.html In another installment of The Miami Herald's Poverty Peddlers series, reporters Scott Hiaasen and Jason Grotto reveal that the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust, the county's largest anti-poverty agency, squandered millions of dollars on lavish parties, bad loans and insider deals. The... 2069@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Nonprofit 2007-10-05T13:49:36-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_07.html A Chicago Tribune analysis of federal data shows that enforcement efforts in the the war on drugs hits minorities far harder than whites. Darnell Little reports that inner-city dealers are hit much harder than the more discrete dealings in suburban... 2001@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ CAR 2007-07-26T16:23:15-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_07.html A Dallas Morning News investigation into disciplinary records of employees at state schools for the mentally retarded " found hundreds of cases of abuse at the hands of those charged with caring for the mentally retarded – everything from extreme... 2002@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2007-07-26T16:01:00-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_06.html Fred Kelly reports on a two-week investigation by The Charlotte Observer which uncovered an "underground network" of shelters and safe houses, many run by religious ministries, which have sprung up as official shelters face issues of overcrowding. Exact numbers on... 1959@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2007-06-21T12:37:39-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_03.html Investigative Reporter Jeremy Rogalski of KHOU-Houston discovered the state agency that protects abused children may be more likely to leave black children in dangerous and abusive home situations. The story examines whether a Texas program designed to address the large... 1857@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2007-03-01T15:17:15-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_02.html Scott Zamost and Jeff Burnside of WTVJ-South Florida update the 2001 "Selling Innocence" investigation by interviewing Savannah Haile, now 12 years old. Pictures of Haile were posted on a so-called "child-modeling" Web site without her consent, and her story became... 1852@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2007-02-27T12:30:53-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2007_02.html Jason Whitely of KHOU-Houston analyzed street-by-street crime data from the past two years to find out how close the city’s 1,500 murders, rapes and assaults came to Houston public schools. The investigation showed that, within a mile of Benavidez Elementary,... 1850@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2007-02-27T11:34:39-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2006_10.html Rukmini Callimachi and Frank Bass of the Associated Press report on a disparity in post-Katrina insurance claims. Based on analysis of Louisiana's insurance claims, they determined that residents of predominantly white neighborhoods "have been three times as likely as homeowners... 1713@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2006-10-24T15:01:45-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2006_09.html Jenifer B. McKim of The Orange County Register writes about lost opportunities to save a 10-month-old foster child who was returned to his mother and brutally murdered. "The investigation found that nearly two dozen abused or neglected children who had... 1667@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2006-09-18T14:06:47-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2006_08.html In a unique investigation built as a narrative, Lee Hancock of the Dallas Morning News reports on a troubling trend of finacial exploitation of the elderly. This series details the experiences of Mary Ellen Bendtsen. "Her crumbling mansion is now... 1639@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2006-08-18T12:58:58-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2006_08.html Lynette Clemetson and Ron Nixon of The New York Times looked at federal records and data maintained by Cornell University to identify a rise in interracial adoptions. "In 2004, 26 percent of black children adopted from foster care, about 4,200,... 1638@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2006-08-17T10:22:42-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2006_07.html In the story "Leave or Die: America's Hidden History of Racial Explusion," Elliot Jaspin of Cox News Service used Census Data and other documents to expose the systematic expulsion of blacks from counties across the U.S. "Beginning in 1864 and... 1617@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Social issues 2006-07-14T09:34:25-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2006_06.html Mc Nelly Torres and Jeremy Milarsky of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel analyzed the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for 2000-04 and found that "blacks and Hispanics who have applied for conventional mortgage loans in South Florida were denied... 1597@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Housing 2006-06-21T10:22:00-06:00