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City Government Investigations
This set of three stories are investigative reports by the Wichita Eagle. The first looks at a mayoral candidate's hidden history of domestic violence. The second story looks at misuse of funds by city officials and other financial frauds like improper donations given by major city contractors. The third story looks at fraud in a job-training program.
Tags: mayoral candidate; Bill Warren; Crojne and Sons; DETAMC; Job training center; Pamela Johnson; George Johnson
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Price of Polygamy
This story investigates the town of Colorado City, on the border of Arizona and Utah. The town is a religious community that has shirked social norms to live according to standards of a fundamentalist sect of the Mormon Church. The citizens practice polygamy, and young women are forced into arranged marriages as teenagers. People who have escaped from Colorado City share horror stories about rape and abuse. Furthermore, because men in these families only legally marry one wife, the other women in the household are considered single mothers and therefore qualify for welfare. What results is millions of taxpayer dollars going to a community where abuse is common and basic human rights are denied.
Tags: human rights; family; polygamy; child abuse; domestic violence; Church of Latter Day Saints; welfare abuse
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Betrayal in the Ranks
These stories covered by The Denver Post are about women being sexually assaulted in the US military. The reporters uncover details of acts of violence against women and report that very often the women were denied justice by the military. The stories are a compilation of a series of narration by the victims and how they have dealt with the problem that very often leads to post traumatic stress disorder years after the incident.
Tags: Sexual assault; US Military and women; rape in the military; post traumatic stress disorder; FOIA
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Buncombe justice on trial
This story uncovers a situation where law enforcers ignore cases against well connected suspects. This investigation that triggered of a State Bureau of Investigation reports the lack of action following an alleged domestic violence incident that involved the son of Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford.
Tags: State Bureau of Investigation; Buncombe County Sheriff; Bobby Medford; domestic violence; Jeffrey Medford
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Killed By Parolees; Did Cornejo & Sons Contribute Illegally?; BOE settlement hidden
City Hall: Mayoral candidate's hidden history of domestic violence complaints; fraud and abuse in publicly funded job training program; misuse of travel funds by city officials; City Hall contract tampering; improper donations by a major city contractor. Parollees: More than two dozen Kansans had died at the hands of parolles in the past four years. Nearly, two-thirds who were killed were on at least their second chance at parole; more than a third of the parollees had broken contact with their parole officers before their arrest; and the state made little effort to find parollees who disappeared. School District: the Wichita school district kept a teach on the payroll eight years after the first complaints about is conduct with young teenage girls, they cloaked its settlement of his rape victim's lawsuit in secrecy.
Tags: City Hall; Parolees; Board Of Education; Kansas Legislature; Department of Corrections; Ethics Commission; Sexual Harassment; Bill Warren; Campaign Finance
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In hard times, shelters empty beds
After Sept. 11, domestic violence shelters suffered a major financial blow, sometimes losing federal, state and local funding. To supplement their funding, some shelters have turned to unique forms of raising money.
Tags: Battered women; abuse; Sept. 11; economy
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Violence Dismissed
This is a series of articles about domestic violence. According to the authors, "The first day story focused on the women who were killed in 2002 by their intimate partners. Almost half of the killers had been in district court before on domestic violence allegations, which were often dismissed. The second day story looked at conviction rates across the state for prosecutors as well as how some judges were handling these cases. The third day story looked at how North Carolina's laws aren't adequate for dealing with domestic violence crimes, specific needs included a non-lethal strangulation law and increased sentencing." The series found wide disparities among North Carolina prosecutors involving domestic violence cases. The story includes several maps which track domestic violence throughout North Carolina. The story also features an *extensive* list of domestic abuse victims with a brief summary of what happened to each one.
Tags: domestic violence; abuse; violence; North Carolina; district court; women; spousal abuse; judges; court; cases; lawyers; prosecutors; crimes; conviction rates; allegations
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Death in the Family
The Rocky Mountain News reports on domestic violence and children and parents killed in murder-suicides.
Tags: murder-suicides; domestic violence; family violence; mental illness
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System easy on repeat abuser
A Denver Post special report on violence in the family reports on chronic offenders and "what victims' advocates call problems with how the state lacks a unified record-keeping system to track repeat batterers, how cities and counties aren't equipped to communicate with each other, and how the courts punish such abusers."
Tags: domestic violence; repeat offenders; restraining orders; crime; abusers; batterers; chronic offenders
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Captain WOW: When is Mental State Of a Pilot Grounds for Grounding Him?
The Wall Street Journal reports on the case of a pilot, Capt. Witter, diagnosed with personal disorder. "The Witter case, offering a look inside the normally closed world of the cockpit shows just how difficult it can be to decide whether a pilot is mentally fit to fly. Of 5.066 pilot groundings for medical reasons in the past two years, 915 involved psychological or psychiatric disorders."
Tags: domestic violence aggression; alcohol abuse; FAA; NTSB; safety; Delta