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Spinal fusions serve as case study for debate over when certain surgeries are necessary

The rate of spinal fusion surgery has risen sixfold in the United States over the past 20 years, according to federal figures, and the expensive procedure, which involves the joining […]
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Top Seattle parking scofflaws are billion-dollar firms

Washington state drivers who don’t pay parking fines in the City of Seattle face hefty penalties, including the “boot," a tire clamp that immobilizes a car until the owner pays […]
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St. Louis wrongful arrests mount as fingerprint mismatches are ignored

“The Post-Dispatch has identified 100 people arrested in error over the past seven years. Collectively, they spent more than 2,000 days in jail — an average of about three weeks […]
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Breathless and Burdened

“This yearlong investigation examines how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, have defeated the benefits claims of miners sick and dying of black lung, even […]
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Surgeon salesmen? Doctors profit from devices they put in patients

“Reynolds is now suing Sabit for wrongful death. One of his biggest questions centers on the screws and rods used to fuse the spine, which came from a company called […]
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Did 49ers' Aldon Smith Receive Preferential Treatment from Santa Clara County Sheriff?

“Questions center on an expedited jail process and an invitation to the sheriff’s shooting range while the 49ers' star linebacker was under investigation for owning illegal assault weapons”
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Dennis Schrader's "Little Cooperstown" exhibit raises questions about autograph authenticity

“As a grand exhibit opens to honor the “World’s Biggest Autographed Baseball Collection,” a WTSP investigation reveals not only do many of the autographs appear to be forged – but […]
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Raising a stink about spreading sewage on farms

“EPA regulations for the land application of biosolids are some of the most lenient in the world, requiring wastewater-treatment plants to check for just nine of some 80,000 pollutants that […]
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EDD's new software has thousands of defects, some 'critical'

"In the latest in an ongoing investigation by KCRA into the state’s new unemployment department computer system, insiders tell KCRA’s Sharokina Shams that the system’s computer upgrade is a “system […]
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The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street

“Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?”
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