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Government Reverses Course, Sending 4-Year-Old Boy Back to His Father
by Ginger Thompson It looked like a happy holiday reunion: A 4-year-old boy wearing a Spider-Man baseball shirt sprinted across an airport baggage claim area in Austin, Texas, late Tuesday night and...
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Doctors Defending Convicted Child Abuser “Exceed the Limits of Credulity,”...
by David Armstrong A Florida state court judge rejected a new trial for a man convicted of physically abusing his son, and harshly criticized the testimony offered on his behalf by two doctors who...
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Lawsuit Targets Illinois’ Child Welfare Agency Over Children Languishing in...
by Duaa Eldeib The Acting Cook County Public Guardian filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday on behalf of hundreds of children and teenagers in state care who have been held in psychiatric hospitals...
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Chicago Psychiatric Hospital Will Remain Open for Now
by Duaa Eldeib A Chicago psychiatric hospital just two days from losing federal funding, potentially forcing it to shut down, will remain open for now, following a judge’s ruling Thursday. Federal...
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HUD Took Over a Town’s Housing Authority 22 Years Ago. Now the Authority’s...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan This article was produced in partnership with The Southern Illinoisan, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. WELLSTON, Mo. — Twenty-two...
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We Want to Hear About Your Experiences With Vehicle Tickets, So We Created a...
by Helga Salinas ProPublica Illinois has launched its first Facebook group: Driven Into Debt: Chicago Drivers Navigating Vehicle Ticket Troubles. It’s for people affected by Chicago’s vehicle...
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An Unsigned Letter Alleged Mistakes During Heart Transplants at St. Luke’s....
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica After her husband’s failed heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center last year, Judy Kveton received an anonymous...
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Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle
by Ilya Marritz, WNYC, and Justin Elliott, ProPublica When it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people wondered where all...
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Agency Policing Tent City for Immigrant Kids Lacks Experience Investigating...
by Topher Sanders and Michael Grabell The federal agency responsible for primary policing duties at a controversial tent city housing thousands of immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas, doesn’t have...
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6-Year-Old Separated From His Father Tells Judge He Wants to Go Home
by Eva Ruth Moravec for ProPublica Nearly an hour into Judge Anibal Martinez’s afternoon immigration docket, the bailiff called out Wilder Maldonado’s name. The 6-year-old hadn’t made a fuss about the...
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Joe Bryan in His Own Words: On Being Convicted With Expert Testimony That...
by Pamela Colloff Katie Campbell/ProPublica This summer and fall, as Joe Bryan’s attorneys argued that he deserved a new trial, Bryan watched in silence. Although he was at the center of the...
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California Knew the Carr Wildfire Could Happen. It Failed to Prevent it.
by Keith Schneider for ProPublica On the afternoon of July 23, a tire on a recreational trailer blew apart on the pavement of State Route 299 about 15 miles northwest of Redding, California. The...
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Austin Closes A High Number Of Its Rape Cases Without Arrests. The State’s...
by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting WASHINGTON — The Austin Police Department has asked the Texas...
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How We Crunched the Numbers on the VA’s Private Care Program
by Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, and Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact Since 2014, Congress has pumped $19.4 billion into the Veterans Choice Program to buy private medical care for veterans. We wanted to know...
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The VA’s Private Care Program Gave Companies Billions and Vets Longer Waits
by Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, and Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact For years, conservatives have assailed the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a dysfunctional bureaucracy. They said private enterprise...
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Private Construction-Waste Truck Hits Man Outside de Blasio Event
by Kiera Feldman A private construction-waste truck struck and injured a pedestrian in Manhattan on Tuesday morning, the second crash for the vehicle’s owner in 2018. The crash occurred outside an...
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Elkhart’s Mayor Says He Won’t Run for Re-election, Amid Revelations of...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Tim Neese, the mayor of Elkhart, Indiana, abandoned his re-election campaign Tuesday following revelations of misconduct in the...
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In Louisiana, More Than a Third of Ex-Lawmakers Continue to Try to Influence...
by Andrea Gallo, The Advocate Louisiana’s nursing homes are among the nation’s worst. The state ranked 50th in patient quality of care in a recent AARP report, which noted high rates of pressure sores...
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