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Spa shooter sidestepped police
Following a mass shooting inside a suburban Milwaukee spa, reporters John Diedrich and Gina Barton dug into the history of shooter Radcliffe Haughton with police in his community of Brown Deer. They uncovered a series of failures by police that left a dangerous man on the street, emboldening him to become more violent. Let down by police, Zina Haughton sought protection with a restraining order. She was dead days after it was issued. Diedrich and Barton found Brown Deer did not follow the state’s mandatory arrest law in such cases and failed to uphold its most basic duty: protecting the public. The most remarkable finding was that Brown Deer police actually retreated from a standoff with Haughton even though officers had saw him point what appeared to be a rifle at his wife. The police chief was defiant. Elected officials in Brown Deer deferred to the chief, who operates with little oversight in the village, the reporters found. The case revealed a loophole in state’s domestic violence laws: No one could hold local police accountable for failing to follow the law as designed by legislators. Data reporter Ben Poston joined the effort to examine how many domestic violence cases referred to prosecutors result in charges, thus holding other parts of the criminal justice system accountable.
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The Fort Hood Shootings
The investigation showcases the unraveling of the Fort Hood massacre. It chronicles the repeated failure of U.S. intelligence to take substantive action against the assailant, Nidal Hasan, and the bureaucratic decisions that ultimately snowballed into a tragedy.
Tags: Anwar Awalki; Fort Hood; Brian Ross; military; massacre; shooting; jihad; Nidal Hasan; terror; Al Qaeda; Yemeni; bureaucracy; Texas; army base; psychiatrist;
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Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
An investigation into "the science, history and brutal political war over Lyme disease and its co-infections." It exposes firsthand experience with the illness, while also exposing misconceptions about its unpredictability.
Tags: Lyme disease; tick-born illness; deer tick; chronic illness
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Felons Hunting with guns slip past state law
More than 850 felons had been found to hunt and kill deer with a "modern firearm," which is not allowed by state law. It was discovered that state agencies did not run background checks on felons before issuing a hunting license.
Tags: deer season; game tag; Arkansas Game and Fish Commission; convict; weapon; rifle;
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Leave it to Beaver: As Forest Reclaims American East, It's Man vs. Beast
Animal populations in the American East are rising, and causing more and more damage. In particular, larger animals like bear, moose, coyotes, beavers, turkeys and deer are making a comeback. This population chance created a market for "wildlife damage-control professionals". These people, sometimes ex-trappers, make thousands of dollars removing wild animals that people complain about. Nuisance wildlife is now a multi-million dollar business. The article discusses which factors contribute to the growing population, how animals and humans interact, and how state wildlife agencies, along with private companies, are handling the problem.
Tags: nature; animals; beavers; trappers; reforestation; ProPaw
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No Way Out: When a child reports abuse at school, then kills herself, what is the school's responsibility? Kerby Casey Guerra's parents want to know.
The Independent tells the story of Kerby Casey Guerra, a 13-year-old Colorado Springs girl who was incessantly tormented by her peers at Eagleview Middle School. According to her parents, she and her friends were pushed into lockers, cussed at and threatened. Guerra, her parents and her friends parents all spoke with school administrators about their treatment, but the abuse continued. In March of 1999, Guerra killed herself with a deer rifle, driven, presumably, by the constant harassment. Guerra's parents believe the school should have done more to help their daughter because peer abuse has become worse in the late 1990s.
Tags: Kerby Casey Guerra; teaching; school; education; violence; Columbine; death; Colorado Springs; Colorado; Eagleview Middle School
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The Killer Among Us
Milwaukee Magazine looks at Chronic Wasting Disease in Wisconsin, the number one deer hunting state with two million white-tail deer. Only recently had scientists realized just how contagious this disease is. Nohl notes that while government officials were telling residents to feed venison to their children, they were privately discussing using gas masks and moon suits to protect themselves.
Tags: deer; Chronic Wasting Disease; CWD; Wisconsin; hunters; venison; disease; wildlife; CDC
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License to Kill
"This Fox 6 investigation found many of Wisconsin's registered deer hunters are breaking the law every time they head into the woods -- and the state is allowing them to do it." Using two databases from the Wisconsin Office of Court Operations and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Fox 6 "cross referenced the two lists, revealing the state is selling gun-deer permits to more than 1,200 convicted felons -- people who aren't legally allowed to hold a firearm, let alone hunt with one."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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One Marsupial Too Many
Discovery Magazine investigates the problems Austrialia is having with koalas. Australian islands are over-populated with the animals. Koalas, who do not have any natural predators, are rapidly destroying gum trees. However, Australians become outraged when politicians or scientists suggest culling the cute animals. "One Marsupial Too Many" explores a possible solution to the problem -- giving koalas vaccines that will essentially make them steril. Such a vaccine would be valuable in the Americas, with its problem with deer over-population.
Tags: koalas; deers; Australia; immunocontraception; over-population
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Pills Fuel Political Donation
The Times found the Republican gubernatorial candidate Stephen Goldsmith's biggest instate political contributor was marketing a legal but controversial asthma drug that teenagers in Indiana and other states widely use to get high. Fifty-five thousand dollars worth of political donations from Richard A. Deer came as the FDA and other states were cracking down on the sale of his obsolete, over-the-counter asthma remedies. He them sold by mail order, over the Internet, at truck stops, convenience stores, mini-marts and liquor stores. (August 25, 1996)
Tags: Corcoran Taylor CAR Pills fuel political donation Contest entry Politics 22 pgs.