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The Chancey Bailey Project investigation
"In 2008, The Oakland Tribune and The Chauncey Bailey Project began to shift from investigating the organization believe responsible for the killing to how the Oakland Police investigated the case." Their work revealed failure for the police to document key evidence of conspiracy, a delay in police action to raid Your Black Muslim Bakery during which time Bailey was murdered.
Tags: Chauncey Bailey; Your Black Muslim Bakery; murder; court documents; conspiracy; FOIA; California Public Records Act; Oakland; Alameda County; police investigation
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The Chauncey Bailey Project
After Chauncey Bailey, an editor at the Oakland Post, was "assassinated" the newspaper "leaped on the story. The next day, a 19-year-old employee of a long time Oakland business called Your Black Muslim Bakery was charged with killing Bailey and said in a confession he later recanted that he shot the editor to stop him from pursing stories about the bakery's trouble finances and internal power struggles."
Tags: Arizona Project; assassination; Chauncey Bailey; Oakland; California;
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Plagued By Fear
Dr. Thomas Butler, a plague researcher who "had treated the Black Death's bloated victims in the Third World," was accused of stealing vials of the plague that disappeared from laboratories where he was doing research in the United States, setting off a federal investigation and a trial. Mangels tells Butler's story in seven parts, detailing lax lab security, the trial and Butler's attempt to rebuild his life.
Tags: Yersinia pestis; Black Plague; Thomas Butler; polygraph; lie detector; Texas tech University; research lab security
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Selling Out: A Textbook Example
Relegating academic ethics to the backburner, professors are receiving kickbacks from publishers in return for requiring students to purchase the latter's textbooks. Running on a tip from an executive at a textbook company, the article investigates the world of under-the-table payoffs in textbook sales in higher education. The story also cites concrete examples of cases, for example, when a certain publishing company paid professors a hefty $4,000 in turn for requiring his/her students to buy those books.
Tags: James Williams; Middle Tennessee State University; Amy Staples; North West Publishing; Francine M. Butler; Gerhard Gyrtz; Anna Bates; Aquina College; W.W.Norton; Daniel Bartell; Henry Rosovsky; Winthrop Jordan; Steve Tressler; Pearson Longmann