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Documents reveal decisions that led to bank's demise

Less than a week after Washington state's Bank of Clark County failed, The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) used public records and inside sources to uncover the decisions that sent this financial […]
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Alt-weekly exposes mayor's lie about sexual relationship

Willamette Week, the alt-weekly based in Portland, Ore., broke a story about Portland Mayor Sam Adams. After 16 months of reporting, Willamette Week compiled evidence that Adams had lied in […]
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Illinois gala for Obama supported by lobbyists he banned from donating to campaign

Supporters from Barack Obama's home state held a celebration this week that was paid for, in part, by the same lobbying firms the president-elect banned from donating to his campaign […]
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Official confirms detainee was tortured

In an interview with The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, the official overseeing U.S. military commissions confirmed that treatment of a Guantanamo Bay detainee qualified as torture. "The public record of […]
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Documents detail complaints that FDA managers are too lenient with industry

Internal Food and Drug Administration documents indicate that an FDA official overruled agency scientists and approved the sale of an imaging device for breast cancer after receiving a phone call […]
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Examining the environmental cost of coal mining practice

A year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity details the steep environmental toll taken by the practice of longwall mining, a process employed to quickly and cheaply extract coal. […]
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Coal ash dam in Tennessee had previous leaks

"The chief executive of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the coal-burning power plant responsible for an enormous flood of coal ash in East Tennessee late last month, acknowledged Thursday […]
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Investigation into problems in county program kept secret

Voice of San Diego reporter Will Carless reports that the county of San Diego has kept secret the results of an investigation into a report of improprieties in a program […]
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Citigroup bailed out subprime lender

A report by John Gittelsohn of the Orange Country Register details how Daniel Sadek, a subprime mortgage lender, was bailed out by Citigroup. Sadek was the founder of Quick Loan […]
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AIG's role in financial crisis explored

 In the latest installment of The Washington Post's look at the ways in which Wall Street innovation outpaced Washington regulation, Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Brady Dennis look at the role […]
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