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Louisiana Purchased

Last year, 25 percent of nursing home beds in Louisiana were empty. Yet the state paid $23 million for them. In the third part of a series on the topic, Fox […]
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Body found in hospital stairwell: San Francisco sheriff details what went wrong

In September, Lynne Spalding checked into San Francisco General Hospital for a bladder infection. Soon after, she went missing. No one ordered a full search for Spalding until nine days after she […]
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Almost Without Hope: The State of Health Care on the Rosebud Indian Reservation

The physical complications of poverty, joblessness and epidemic rates of alcoholism, diabetes and depression spill over into the wards at the only hospital on the Rosebud Reservation, which has a […]
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Private Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain

“Patterns of rape, riots and squalor are found in lockups. Some incidents are tied to too few and often inexperienced guards. Some examples: An inmate left alone in horticulture class […]
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Waste Lands: America’s forgotten nuclear legacy

The Department of Energy says it has protected the public health, and studies about radiation harm aren’t definitive. But with the government's own records about many of the sites unclear, […]
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Prosecutorial misconduct alleged in half of capital cases

In half of all capital cases in Arizona since 2002, prosecutorial misconduct was alleged by appellate attorneys. Those allegations ranged in seriousness from being over emotional to encouraging perjury. Nearly […]
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Special report: Addicted nurses keep licenses

Some nurses continue to steal narcotics or practice while impaired under state monitoring that’s supposed to stop them.
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Law to keep ammonium nitrate facilities secure may put Texans at risk

An investigation by The Dallas Morning News found that a state law designed to keep ammonium nitrate secured from would-be terrorists sets a lax standard for keeping Texans safe. According […]
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California agencies gamble on pension bonds to cover debts – and lose

“Some public officials and investment bankers have portrayed pension obligation bonds as a good way to shore up pension funds … But that gamble is not panning out so far […]
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Hidden priests, secret pasts: Church silent about where it houses credibly accused clerics

“Cheplic, who has denied the allegations, is one of at least seven alleged sexual predators quietly placed in the Rutherford retirement home in the past decade, The Star-Ledger found. Some […]
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