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Did 49ers’ Aldon Smith Receive Preferential Treatment from Santa Clara County Sheriff?
“Questions center on an expedited jail process and an invitation to the sheriff’s shooting range while the 49ers’ star linebacker was under investigation for owning illegal assault weapons”
Read MoreSurgeon salesmen? Doctors profit from devices they put in patients
“Reynolds is now suing Sabit for wrongful death. One of his biggest questions centers on the screws and rods used to fuse the spine, which came from a company called Apex Medical Technologies LLC. Apex had no public phone number, website, or listing of its owners. “CBS This Morning” has learned one of its owners…
Read MoreBreathless and Burdened
“This yearlong investigation examines how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, have defeated the benefits claims of miners sick and dying of black lung, even as disease rates are on the rise and an increasing number of miners are turning to a system that was supposed to help alleviate their…
Read MoreSt. Louis wrongful arrests mount as fingerprint mismatches are ignored
“The Post-Dispatch has identified 100 people arrested in error over the past seven years. Collectively, they spent more than 2,000 days in jail — an average of about three weeks each. One man alone was incarcerated 211 days. About a quarter were held repeatedly — one of them, five times — and 15 were locked…
Read MoreWatch now: Google Hangout with Charles Lewis
Tune in to IRE’s Google Hangout with Charles Lewis, an accomplished investigative reporter, producer and bestselling author who founded the non-profit investigative journalism group the Center for Public Integrity. Charles Lewis answered questions about campaign finance investigations, the future of nonprofit journalism and authoring investigative books. If you have questions about Google Hangouts, please visit Google’s information…
Read MoreInternet Archive of TV clips on NSA revelations released
The Internet Archive has released an experimental library of television news clips covering revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The library allows users to search over 700 clips dating back from 2009. The library is searchable by transcripts, speakers, or date. It is currently only accessible via Chrome and Safari browsers. Clips may…
Read MoreOne Law Firm On Both Sides of Controversy Over Alexandria Waterfront
Lawyers at McGuireWoods are on both sides of the controversy over the waterfront, the Alexandria Gazette Packet reports. They are defending Alexandria taxpayers in court while seeking approval from city officials on behalf of three separate developers at the same time. Legal experts say that’s not a conflict of interest, but neighborhood residents say it leaves…
Read MoreOn the Ground With Syria’s News Smugglers: They go where professional journalists won’t
Syria is now the most dangerous country in the worldfor reporters: According to the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, at least 114 journalists have died there since the spring of 2011, the News Republic reports. Among the dead are seasoned correspondents like the American Marie Colvin, who was killed in Homs in 2012, and freelancers…
Read MoreThe War on Rape
As an innocent abroad, Jamie Leigh Jones was a perfect heroine, Washington Monthly reports. And she confronted an unusually good villain. KBR had been plagued with allegations of fraud and overbilling involving its Pentagon contracts in Iraq. It also was closely associated with Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been Halliburton’s CEO before coming to the White…
Read MoreNew reports fuel debate of whether Lisa Steed arrested innocent drivers
Last year, Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Steve Winward sent a memo about the performance on probably the most controversial trooper in the agency’s history: Cpl. Lisa Steed, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. A UHP memo, dated two years earlier, suggested Steed was falsifying reports and arresting drivers who showed no signs of impairment. But Winward’s…
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