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Psychiatric hospital strained by patient needs, funding shortfalls

An investigation by The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer found that some dangerously ill patients who visit Charlotte’s psychiatric hospital are instead given medicine and sent home - sometimes with disastrous results. […]
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Debtors ending up in jail

An analysis of state data by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, shows that "people are routinely being thrown in jail for failing to pay debts. […]
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AT&T, Boeing Buck Anti-Incumbent Trend in Giving to Democrats

A computer-assisted analysis by Bloomberg News reporter Jonathan D. Salant of Federal Election Commission data found corporate political action committees siding with vulnerable Democratic incumbents, the candidates that Republicans need […]
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Schools profit off of student credit card debt

An investigation by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund found "some of the nation’s largest and most elite universities stand to gain millions of dollars from selling the names and addresses […]
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Rig lacked effective oversight

"New government and BP documents, interviews with experts and testimony by witnesses provide the clearest indication to date that a hodgepodge of oversight agencies granted exceptions to rules, allowed risks […]
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Assemblyman cashes in on disability pension

Mark Lagerkvist launches New Jersey Watchdog with an investigation of a state assemblyman who collected $570,000 in disability payments after retiring as a police officer with a bad back at […]
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Loophole keeps gun dealer in business

From almost the time it opened, a Wisconsin gun store has been in trouble with federal authorities. After repeated warnings about problems, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and […]
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Data shows little violence at U.S.-Mexican border

The Associated Press reported that the US-Mexico border is one of the safest parts of America, and getting safer even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight […]
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Safety of rig had been a concern for months

Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, reports that internal documents from BP showed that "there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig far earlier than […]
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Feds investigate possible billing fraud at Texas medical school, hospital

The Dallas Morning News’ Reese Dunklin and Miles Moffeit reported that a Dallas medical school and its teaching hospital are under federal investigation in possible Medicare and Medicaid fraud, billing […]
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