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Extra Extra Monday: Hospital ‘trauma’ charges, police and fire overtime, toxic chemical danger zones

Image from Newseum Insult to injury | Tampa Bay Times Trauma patients, who have no choice in where the ambulance takes them, are being charged as much as $33,000 the […]
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National Flood Insurance Program, taxpayers around $24 billion in debt

There are 534 properties in New England alone that are considered Severe Repetitive Loss properties, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which manages the insurance program. Often, these National […]
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Florida trauma centers charging patients expensive ‘trauma response fees'

Trauma patients, who have no choice in where the ambulance takes them, are being charged as much as $33,000 the moment they enter a Florida trauma center. That money doesn’t […]
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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 […]
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Healthcare 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 […]
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Multiple 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 […]
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Brown 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 […]
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California 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 […]
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Second 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 […]
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Delaware 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 […]
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