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The Dallas Morning News has posted a page dedicated to its continuing investigation into sexual abuse at Texas juvenile detention centers. Records obtained by the paper showed that young inmates were being sexually assaulted, and nothing was done to stop it, despite complaints and reports by staffers at the West Texas State School. Included on…
Read MoreDavid Hunn of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on Riverview Garden School District superintendent, Henry P. Williams. Williams “directed at least $85,000 in extra payments to his retirement and insurance accounts,” payments not included in his contract. The paper’s investigation shows that these deposits started about four years ago. In addition to financial improprieties, the…
Read MoreJohn Tedesco, Karisa King and Kelly Guckian of the San Antonio Express-News analyzed six years of San Antonio Fire Department response-time data and found that firefighters reach inner-city structure fires quicker than in the outlying areas where firefighters cover more territory with fewer stations. In response to the Express-News coverage, local officials pledge to address…
Read MoreMichelle Breidenbach and Mike McAndrew of the Syracuse Post-Standard report on the paper’s victory in a lawsuit that forced New York state to reveal how it distributes $558 million in tax credits to businesses. “The state kept the dollar amounts secret for years, even as the public and state legislators questioned how some of the…
Read MoreSteve Weiberg and Jodi Upton of USA Today looked at the salaries of men’s Division I basketball coaches. “USA Today obtained contracts or other documents detailing salaries for coaches at 58 of the 65 schools in the 2006 tournament field. Their average salary this season: nearly $800,000. In the six marquee conferences
Read MoreRon Campbell of the Orange County Register reports on Irvine businessman Mark Ellis who made millions of dollars through his money-losing penny stock company, Winsted Holdings. By reverse-splitting the stock and then flooding the market with billions of new shares, he effectively drove down the stock’s price to a hundredth of a penny.The story explores…
Read MoreDebbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald reports that one of Miami’s leading political and civic figures, Raul Masvidal, was arrested on fraud and grand theft charges. The arrest is the result of an investigation prompted by The Herald‘s “House of Lies” series that exposed rampant corruption in the Miami-Date Housing Agency. Masvidal is one of…
Read MoreReporters Cary Spivak and Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel disclosed that a top official in Gov. Jim Doyle
Read MoreKen Dilanian of The Philadelphia Inquirer found a long list of health and safety violations, a history of substandard care, and a system of state oversight that, until recently, often allowed deficient operators to violate safety rules with virtual impunity in the assisted-living homes of Philadelphia. Since 2000, at least 55 assisted-living residents have died…
Read MoreReforms promised after the story reveals that man under Milwaukee County’s care was dead for days before his body was discovered. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Kissinger continues her year-long coverage of housing conditions for Milwakee’s impoverished mentally ill. The latest story details how a man had been dead for up to four days before…
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