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Local Oregon Officials and Community Members Weigh in on Repeated Attacks...
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Malheur County, Oregon was stunned by terrible violence in recent years. In 2016 a man named Anthony Montwheeler was released from the state hospital, nearly two decades after...
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Chicago Task Force Will Take on Ticket and Debt Collection Reform
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ The city of Chicago on Thursday took a potentially big step toward reducing the harmful impact of its ticketing and debt collection practices on...
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Judge in Joe Bryan Case Rejects Defense Pleas for New Trial
by Pamela Colloff Despite compelling evidence that the forensic testimony used to convict former Texas high school principal Joe Bryan of murder was wrong, a Texas judge today recommended that Bryan’s...
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FBI Moves to Fix Critical Flaw in Its Crime Reporting System
by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting NEW ORLEANS — The FBI will fast-track a fix to address flaws...
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What Chicago Voters Can Look Forward to in a Very Crowded Mayoral Election
by Lakeidra Chavis With the Chicago mayoral election approaching, ProPublica Illinois reporter Mick Dumke and Chicago Reader reporter Ben Joravsky talked City Hall politics at their monthly show,...
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Judge Calls for Examination of Quality Controls in New York Supported Housing...
by Joaquin Sapien At a court hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis questioned New York state officials and disability advocates about people with mental illness dying or coming to...
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An Elkhart Police Officer Was Convicted of Drunken Driving — Then the Chief...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Elkhart, Indiana, Police Chief Ed Windbigler is currently serving a 30-day suspension, in part for misleading a civilian...
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Federal Judge Puts Independent Review of Troubled Psychiatric Hospital on Hold
by Duaa Eldeib A federal judge Friday suspended an independent inquiry at a troubled Chicago psychiatric hospital that is set to lose its federal funding. After pressure from the American Civil...
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Prominent Doctors Aren’t Disclosing Their Industry Ties in Medical Journal...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times One is dean of Yale’s medical school. Another is the director of a cancer center in Texas. A third is the next president of the...
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How the More Than Me Charity Gamed the Internet and Hollywood to Win a...
by Finlay Young for ProPublica It was the breakthrough moment for More Than Me. On Dec. 7, 2012, Katie Meyler’s tiny New Jersey-based charity defeated 24 other nonprofits to win $1 million at the...
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Stung by Controversies, Police Chief Resigns in Elkhart, Indiana
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Elkhart, Indiana, Police Chief Ed Windbigler announced his resignation Monday after recent reports by the South Bend Tribune...
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How the IRS Was Gutted
by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger In the summer of 2008, William Pfeil made a startling discovery: Hundreds of foreign companies that operated in the U.S. weren’t paying U.S. taxes, and his employer,...
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“Trump, Inc.” Podcast Honored With Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
by ProPublica Columbia Journalism School honored the ProPublica and WNYC podcast “Trump, Inc.” with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award honoring outstanding audiovisual reporting in the...
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What We Now Know about Manafort, Cohen and “Individual-1” — “Trump, Inc.”...
by Ilya Marritz, WNYC Court filings by prosecutors last week shined a light on the business lives of two men who worked get Donald Trump elected president: former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen...
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ProPublica Picks 14 Newsrooms and Investigative Projects for Year 2 of Its...
by ProPublica ProPublica named 14 newsrooms and local reporters on Wednesday who will participate in the second year of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network, a program aimed at supporting...
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Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?
by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger When Natassia Smick, 28, filed her family’s taxes in January, she already had plans for the refund she and her husband expected to receive. Mainly, she wanted to catch...
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Criminally Insane in Oregon Attack Twice as Many People Than Previously...
by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise People freed by Oregon officials after being found criminally insane are charged with new felonies more often than convicted criminals released from state...
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Illinois Regulators Are Investigating a Psychiatrist Whose Research With...
by Jodi S. Cohen Illinois regulators have launched an investigation into a prominent former University of Illinois at Chicago psychiatrist whose research into children with bipolar disorder was shut...
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“Landmark” Maternal Health Legislation Clears Major Hurdle
by Nina Martin Congress moved a big step closer on Tuesday toward addressing one of the most fundamental problems underlying the maternal mortality crisis in the United States: the shortage of...
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Elkhart’s Acting Police Chief Has Previously Been Demoted, Reprimanded and...
by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Jeff Parrott, South Bend Tribune When Ed Windbigler was suspended last month as the police chief in Elkhart, Indiana, his No. 2, Todd Thayer, became the Police...
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