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Portland drug informant’s cases fall apart after questions about his credibility, whereabouts
“Police and prosecutors say checks-and-balances ensure the integrity of the system. But defense attorneys — whose clients faced years in prison because of Jackson’s work — say police wasted thousands in taxpayer dollars putting so much faith in a dubious undercover source,” The Oregonian reports.
Read MoreTruck company vehicles were taken out of service for maintenance problems
“Defective brakes, axle problems and cracked wheel rims were among the most serious maintenance problems state inspectors found on trucks owned by B&E Transport, the firm involved in last week’s crash that damaged a bridge over U.S. 281,” according to a San Antonio Express-News article.
Read MoreNevada chief justice orders courts review after potentially more than 2,400 ruled mentally ill not reported to gun database
“(A Reno Gazette-Journal) report this week found that Washoe District Court in Reno did not send 179 names to the Department of Public Safety’s database of people prohibited from possessing a gun. When the RGJ asked the department how many reports it had received from other courts in the state, the director said only 13…
Read MoreShortcomings seen in response to missing Iowans
“A Des Moines Register examination of missing-person cases revealed ongoing shortcomings in how Iowa responds when its residents vanish.”
Read MoreWoman says KCMO councilman’s sexting scandal connected to taxpayer money, shares story with FBI
“41 Action News has spoken exclusively with a woman who is convinced the taxpayer money was used to help keep a sexting scandal out of the public spotlight. And she’s shared her story with the FBI.”
Read MoreIn Afghanistan, redeployed U.S. soldiers still coping with demons of post-traumatic stress
“A diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder is not a barrier to being redeployed. Not when the Army needs its most experienced soldiers to wrap up the war. Instead, the Army is trying to answer a new question: Who is resilient enough to return to Afghanistan, in spite of the demons they are still fighting?”
Read MorePoway schools rely on Mello-Roos tax machine — for lunches, signs and old school repair
“There is no legal limit and no standardized formula for calculating Mello-Roos taxes. In some cases, the formulas are so convoluted that homeowners have virtually no way of knowing whether they’re paying the correct amount. What’s more there is no state oversight over the funds: at a minimum, the system is far from transparent to…
Read MoreEven Odds
“Being male and black in Oakland means being about as likely to be killed as to graduate from high school ready for college,” a San Francisco Chronicle investigation found.
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Read MoreDocuments show NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to a report from The Washington Post. Based on an internal audi and other top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Washington Post…
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