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Lax regulations compromise safety of cargo flight industry

In a 9-month investigation, The Miami Herald uncovered inaccuracies regarding the government's reporting of the frequency of fatal cargo crashes. Through the analysis of extensive government documents dating back to […]
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Dallas school district credit card abuse

Kent Fischer, Tawnell D. Hobbs and Molly Motley of the Dallas Morning News analyzed local school district credit card transactions to find that "only a fraction of purchase receipts are […]
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Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks a dangerous playground

Mike Sherry of the Kansas City Star used federal data to determine that the Lake of the Ozarks is the "third-most accident-prone waterway in the country." The Lake of the […]
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$1 million grant issued to study restrictions on public records

Richard Willing of USA Today reports that "The federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million. . .to produce a national "model statute" that state legislatures and Congress […]
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Ag programs spend billions to prop up suburbanites, temporary price dips

Dan Morgan, Sarah Cohen and Gilbert M. Gaul of The Washington Post analyzed payment records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in an investigative series. People who don't farm at […]
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Officials responsible for overseeing NASA expressed concerns regarding launch of Discovery

Michael Cabbage of the Orlando Sentinel studied e-mails sent from NASA's Office of the Inspector General to an agency administrator and the chairman of an advisory panel that monitors NASA […]
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Enquirer wins records, shows health department let lead paint violations slide

Sharon Coolidge of The Cincinnati Enquirer won a two-year battle with the Cinncinnati Health Department to obtain records of properties cited for lead contamination violations. Coolidge analyzed the city health […]
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Companies find new way to win contracts

Michael Forsythe and Jonathan D. Salant of Bloomberg analyzed Federal Election Commission records and found that a growing number of companies had found "a new business model: locate facilities in […]
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City Hall list reveals 'All-Stars' of insider clout

Steve Warmbir, Art Golab, Natasha Korecki and Mark J. Konkol of the Chicago Sun-Times did a computer-assisted analysis of 5,743 requests for city jobs, promotions or transfers made to the […]
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Mistaken identity questions raised in 1989 Texas execution

Maurice Possley and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune reviewed thousands of pages of court records and found that Texas may have executed an innocent man in 1989. "<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-tx-htmlstory,1,781241.htmlstory?coll=chi-news-hed […]
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