United States of America v. 15.919 Acres of Land (More or Less)
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by Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, and Jason Grotto, ProPublica Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios has never made any secret of his affinity for old-school politics that put a premium on loyalty and...
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View ArticleDEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans
by Ginger Thompson At about 2 a.m. on April 21, 2010, a convoy of gunmen working for the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in the world, rolled into Monterrey,...
View ArticleU.S. Commerce Official Still Holds Stake in Company Linked to Putin Associates
by Dan Alexander, Forbes, and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica The chief of staff for Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Wendy Teramoto, still owns a stake in a shipping company tied to associates of...
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by Katherine Ellison for ProPublica and Nina Martin, ProPublica Leah Bahrencu’s kidneys and liver shut down. Samantha Blackwell spent a month in a coma. Cindel Pena suffered heart failure. Heather...
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by Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, and Marina Affo and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Donald Trump took office, a wave...
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by Logan Jaffe This story was first published in ProPublica Illinois’ weekly newsletter. Sign up for that here. A few weeks ago, I asked for your help making a list of where Illinoisans get specific...
View ArticleArkansas Spurns Warehousing of Floundering Students
by Heather Vogell As Leana Torres began high school, family crises — her estrangement from her father, her stepmother’s terminal cancer — shadowed her through the hallways. She experimented with drugs...
View ArticleHow to Get Away With Bankruptcy Fraud
by Paul Kiel The boxy building that houses JC Foreclosure Service doesn’t look like much. Drive past, and you might miss it among the gas stations and body shops and small homes here in Bell, a...
View ArticleSheriff’s Office Directs Officers Not to Ticket Pedestrians for Failing to...
by Benjamin Conarck, Florida Times-Union, and Topher Sanders, ProPublica The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has told its officers not to ticket pedestrians for not carrying a driver’s license and is...
View ArticleProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Editor-in-Chief Louise Kiernan
by Andrea Salcedo Louise Kiernan, who came to ProPublica Illinois from Northwestern University, where she taught journalism, and previously the Chicago Tribune, believes the most rewarding aspect of...
View ArticleWhat We Discovered During a Year of Documenting Hate
by Rachel Glickhouse The days after Election Day last year seemed to bring with them a rise in hate crimes and bias incidents. Reports filled social media and appeared in local news. There were the...
View ArticleComing Soon From ProPublica and BBC News: ‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’
by ProPublica Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. You won’t believe what didn’t happen next. Sign up to be notified when this ProPublica/BBC News...
View ArticleHow We Measured Birth Complications
by Annie Waldman For our analysis of birth complications, we acquired all inpatient discharge records of hospital stays for a two-year period (2014 and 2015) across three states: New York, Florida and...
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by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones Thousands of times a year, Medicare patients file into Dr. Mark Roberts’ family practice clinic in rural Evergreen, Alabama, for standard office visits....
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