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Phoenix emerges as kidnapping capital of U.S.

"In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in […]
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Former police informant admits to lying

Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News report that a former police informant in Philadelphia claims that he and a narcotics officer lied about information used to […]
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Salon.com launches series examining Army suicides

Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna of Salon.com have launched "Coming Home," a weeklong series that "focuses on preventable deaths at Fort Carson, a U.S. Army post in Colorado, among troops […]
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ProPublica, WNYC launch project to track stimulus spending

WNYC-New York and ProPublica have started a Web site dedicated to providing "documents, data and original reporting to help citizens monitor the progress and effectiveness of the largest domestic spending […]
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Problems with food safety protection are rampant

A watchdog report by Justina Wang of the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N.Y.) looks at how the latest salmonella contamination exposes vulnerabilities in the protection of U.S. food safety.  Despite […]
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Texas company exploited disabled workers

In an exclusive story, the Des Moines Register reported that a company had been sending mentally disabled Texans to work at a meat-processing plant in West Liberty, Iowa, for 34 […]
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U.S. citizens fall victim to escalating violence in Mexico

Over 200 U.S. citizens have been killed in Mexico since 2004, according to a report by Lise Olsen of the Houston Chronicle. "More U.S. citizens suffered unnatural deaths in Mexico […]
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Homeland Security USA: The Outtakes

The Center for Investigative Reporting files ongoing reports about what viewers don't see in the ABC reality TV series, "Homeland Security USA," which G.W. Shultz characterizes as " 'Cops'-style, heart-pounding […]
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Adding up the cost of football recruits

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Todd Holcomb used Georgia's public records law to compare recruiting budgets for college football programs.  "It has become big business for big-time athletics programs. Each year, they […]
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Crisis deepens in Zimbabwe

"How much lower can Zimbabwe sink? Chronic food shortages, hyperinflation, a cholera epidemic, people abducted for speaking out against President Robert Mugabe's regime -- all this is the stuff of […]
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