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The Dominican Steroid Problem

As spring training opens around baseball, Mike Fish of ESPN.com takes a two-day look at the state of Major League Baseball's fight against performance-enhancing drugs in the Dominican Republic with […]
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Dodd outpaces rivals in race for money

Jonathan D. Salant and Kristin Jensen of Bloomberg report that Sen. Christopher Dodd has outpaced his political rivals in the race to raise money for a presidential bid. A third […]
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Wisconsin's coal-burning plants pump out more greenhouse gas

Thomas Content and Lee Bergquist of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report on how Wisconsin is responsible for disproportionate contributions to global warming. By examining public records, they found that coal-burning […]
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School bus drivers in Ohio have questionable driving records

Using a database of school bus drivers and public records searches, Randy Ludlow and Jill Riepenhoff of the Columbus Dispatch found that more than 150 school-bus drivers have records of […]
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New conflict of interest concerns arise in state corruption case

As part of a two-year investigation by The (Toledo, Ohio) Blade into the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation and corruption in state government, James Drew and Steve Eder have discovered […]
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Lax monitoring creates security issues at Chicago airport

Dave Savini of CBS 2 - Chicago investigates a breach of security at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Insufficient tracking of employee ID badges at Chicago's O'Hare Airport have created a gaping […]
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Flaws in firefighters' safety gear ignored for 5 years

Bill Dedman of MSNBC.com reports that the U.S. government took 5 years to react to warnings made in 2000 that firefighters' PASS alarms were failing to perform as intended. These […]
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Washington's $8 Billion Shadow

Writing for Vanity Fair, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele uncover the influence of SAIC, a "mega-contractor" in Washington, D.C. SAIC, unlike other contractors, is often called upon for […]
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Lax security leaves airports and community vulnerable

Investigative Reporter Jeremy Rogalski and the 11 Investigates team discovered that local general aviation airports in the Houston area have almost no security funding or regulation. As a result, the […]
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Politics play into road fund allocation

Richard Rubin of The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer investigated how politics determine how money is allocated from a North Carolina road fund. "The $15 million contingency fund is controlled largely by […]
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