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South Hampton Roads pays millions in overtime for public safety workers
In police and fire departments across South Hampton Roads, a small number of employees work substantial amounts of overtime, while others receive little or no OT pay – at a time when there have been few raises. Twenty public safety employees in South Hampton Roads each worked more than 1,000 hours of overtime in the…
Read MoreHealthcare quality for poor varies from state to state
A review of data from the nation’s 306 healthcare markets, as well as interviews with scores of experts and visits to communities from Maine to Hawaii, points to many common features of America’s healthiest places. More people have health insurance. Doctors and hospitals cooperate more closely, ensuring patients get preventive care and don’t fall through…
Read MoreMultiple safety violations found in Owego firefighter’s death
A November state Department of Labor investigation cited 11 safety violations, of which eight were designated as serious, in connection to the fire on Jan. 21, 2013, when volunteer firefighter Matthew Porcari fell into the basement after the one-story home’s floor collapsed. The Press & Sun-Bulletin obtained the report last week through a Freedom of…
Read MoreBrown County, Wisconsin police officers involved in seven fatal shootings since 2002
Since 2002 in Brown County, police have been involved in 11 shootings, seven of which were fatal, according to Press-Gazette Media analysis of records involving the largest departments in the state’s fourth most-populous county. That’s about one every 14 months. Green Bay police officers have been involved in five fatal shootings since 2002, Press-Gazette analysis…
Read MoreCalifornia prison practices questioned after inmate suicide
A confidential corrections department report, obtained by The Sacramento Bee, summarizes the findings of a suicide review team assigned to investigate inmate David Scott Gillian’s death. All suicides in California state prisons are reviewed by a team of corrections officials. The report obtained by The Bee, based on the review team’s interviews with prison staff…
Read MoreSecond strike offenders crowding California prison system
California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions. The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining a nearly 3-year-old law pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation restructured…
Read MoreDelaware Chief Medical Examiner subject of criminal investigation
Delaware Chief Medical Examiner Richard T. Callery, who was suspended with pay on Feb. 25, is the subject of a criminal investigation into whether he misused state resources to run a private business, The News Journal has learned.
Read MoreState Attorney Angela Corey has put 21 on death row since 2009
Since taking office in 2009, State Attorney Angela Corey has had the chance to speak to a lot of people trying to get their loved ones’ killers sentenced to death. She has put more people on Death Row than any other prosecutor in Florida. Corey’s office has sent 21 people to Death Row, and 18…
Read MoreCompanies still storing large amounts of toxic chemicals in Louisville
The number of Louisville companies storing dangerous quantities of toxic chemicals has dropped significantly in the past decade, but hundreds of thousands of area residents remain at risk of being sickened or killed in the event of a catastrophic leak. Federally required safety records analyzed by The Courier-Journal show that 21 firms report storing deadly…
Read MoreCabbies in Nevada taking the long way, preying on locals and tourists
The Nevada Taxicab Authority, the state agency that regulates the taxicab industry, has a lax record of enforcing the law, with its citations to drivers dropping significantly in 2013, an investigation by the Las Vegas Review-Journal found. The authority, a law enforcement agency with 26 officers, issued just two tickets in December 2013 to cabbies…
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