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Burmese refugees placed in squalid living conditions

In this report, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that Burmese refugees who have fled their home to avoid persecution, have found themselves placed in terrible living conditions. The Lutheran Social […]
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University of Wisconsin closely tied to prescription painkiller market.

After a large wave of deaths in 2006 due to overdosing on prescription pain medicine, the CDC authored a critical study linking deaths from those drugs to an increase of […]
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Sheriff's office in one AZ county ignore children's plea for help.

Christina Boomer and Mark LaMet at KNXV-TV in Phoenix discovered more than 400 sex crimes cases, many involving young children, were ignored by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Detectives never […]
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Minnesota law against bullying one of weakest in the nation

A six-month investigation by Minnesota Public Radio reveals that bullying occurs on a regular basis throughout the Minnesota school district. The state law against bullying is "the shortest in the […]
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The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development fails to use common-sense oversight.

In "Million-Dollar Wasteland," The Washington Post's Debbie Cenziper reports that the federal government's largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or […]
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Social and economic discrimination still rampant in Houston low-income housing.

Yang Wang  reports on the disturbing low-income housing neighborhood conditions in Houston, TX that led to a teens death. Just weeks before 19-year-old Jamesha Floyd was pulled from her burning […]
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The foggy 13-year hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Caren Bohn, Mark Hoseball, Tabassum Zakaria, and Missy Ryan from Reuters report on the grueling, and sometimes questionable, plan to kill Osama bin Laden. The 13-year quest to find and […]
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Lax oversight in the Salt Lake City FBI office could be detrimental to national security.

After nearly a yearlong investigation, including interviews with FBI informants, Lori Prichard and Kelly Just report on the corruption inside the SLC FBI offices. These whistleblowers were interviewed as part […]
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The NJ Casino Reinvestment Development Authority forced by former admin. to make bad loan.

The Press of Atlantic City reports that the former governor of New Jersey pressured the CRDA to make a $4 million loan to another state agency. Corzine's administration pressed the […]
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Florida caretakers leave residents to suffer

In the series, Neglected to Death, Miami Herald reporters Michael Sallah, Rob Barry and Carol Marbin Miller revealed that "caretakers in assisted-living facilities across Florida" were neglecting patients of proper […]
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