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"Faces of a Health Crisis: L.A. County's Swine Flu Victims"
The Neon Tommy team takes a look at the people directly affected by the H1N1 virus in L.A. County to find out exactly who was dying from the virus and why. In a review of 44 death certificates, the team found that 22 of the deceased had no "preexisting conditions" before contracting the H1N1 virus. They also found that the majority of those who died from H1N1 were women.
Tags: H1N1; Swine Flu; Los Angeles County; Annenberg Digital News; USC; pre-existing conditions
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O.J. Mayo's Inner Circle
NBA star O.J. Mayo was found to have been involved with a secret bank account and credit card used to finance luxurious gifts, meals, and travel. Mayo's agent Calvin Andrews was suspended by the National Basketball Players Association.
Tags: sports agent; USC; Minnesota Timberwolves; Memphis Grizzlies; NCAA; lobbying;
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Betrayed
A former health inspector and environmental health specialist is now permanently disabled because of his exposure to toxic mold at his workplace, the Southern Nevada Health District's Environmental Health Wing, and he's not the only worker affected. Although his employer knew the problem existed (and was serious, as they are the agency that investigates and shuts down mold-infected sites) they fought correcting the situation, refused to re-locate infected workers, and contested their disability claims.
Tags: Mold; Air quality; Southern Nevada Health District; Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV; rashes; Keck School of Medicine Environmental Sciences Laboratory at USC; Public Employees Retirement System of Nevada; U.S. Department of Labor Family and Medical Leave Act; Dan Pauluk; Apergillus; Stachybotrys; Yellow Rain; Aflatoxin; Saddam Hussein; Biological Weapons
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No title (id: 13292)
The Justice Department has a new weapon to fight police brutality. The U.S. Department of Justice has broadened enforcement powers thanks to 42 U.S.C. 14141-14142, passed in 1994, which allow it to investigate departmentwide "patterns or practices" of misconduct in local police departments and to collect statistics on police abuse.
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No title (id: 7381)
Charlotte Observer discloses USC President Jim Holderman's use of a private university fund to funnel $1 million in public money to secret scholarship program for children of USC's top officials; shows financial abuses abound in such gifts as car deals, wages and trips, May - July 1990.
Tags: NC Monk
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No title (id: 5726)
Charlotte Observer looks into the undergraduate intern program run by the president of the University of South Carolina; finds the program involves mostly male students who traveled frequently and lavishly on university funds, Aug. 21 - 22, 1988.