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Driven To Distraction
This seven-month-long investigation revealed serious crashes, injuries and deaths caused by a danger that now exists in virtually every police car in the United States. Dashboard-mounted technology has turned modern patrol cars into offices on wheels. Computers, cameras, GPS devices, radios, smart phones and license plate scanners compete for the officer’s attention while driving, and the consequences of those distractions can be life altering. The series led to significant policy changes at two of the largest police departments in Texas. It sparked action from the world’s largest organization of police leaders. And our reporting also became mandatory safety training viewing for every highway trooper in one state.
Tags: Police; patrol cars; crashes; injuries; deaths; driving safety; highway trooper
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Critical Delays: Dallas County’s Response to the West Nile Epidemic
In the summer of 2012, Dallas County became the epicenter of the worst West Nile virus outbreak in American history. This investigation revealed critical delays in Dallas County’s response contributed to the health epidemic, where 15 people died and more than 150 others were left with long-term disabilities including brain damage, and muscle paralysis in Dallas County alone.
Tags: Health; West Nile virus; epidemic; Dallas
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The Other Walter Reed
"Wounded veterans of the war in Iraq were housed in substandard quarters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and faced neglect and bureaucracy as they sought medical care." Priest and Hull penetrated the secretive world of the Army's premier medical facility, Walter Reed Hospital, to document in chilling detail the callous mistreatment and neglect of America's war-wounded. Their expose — fueled by immersion reporting and fine narrative storytelling — fired a shot heard around the world and led to decisive action at the Pentagon.
Tags: veteran; military; Walter Reed; wounded; outpatient; medical facility; medicine; health; psychological; Public Service Pulitzer winner
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Damaged Shield?
Most U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have a special chemically engineered shield between the ships' inner and outer hulls. The shield is meant to protect the carriers, but this investigation found that in many ships the shield is ineffective and flawed. The Navy contractor responsible for the shielding job says that it often cut corners and took shortcuts. As a result, many aircraft carriers are at greater risk for damage from attack.
Tags: armed forces; Navy; ocean; shipyards; USS Cole; government contracts; hulls
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The Valessa Strategy
A two-part series on the Valessa Robinson murder case. Ms. Robinson, a 15-year-old girl, was charged with brutally stabbing her mother to death. However, the jury rejected the first-degree murder charge, and convicted her instead of third-degree murder. The article probes into what took place leading up to that verdict, and how Valessa's defense team was able to play down her extensive drug use and sexual experience, and paint her instead as a victim, a vulnerable child. And how on the other hand, her boyfriend -- who wound up on death row -- became the true villain.
Tags: valessa robinson; matricide; jury; stabbing; murder; makeover; adolescent
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Divided Feast
When Fresh Fields opened its doors on Washington D.C.'s low-rent P Street neighborhood in December 2000 many were unsure if the opulent nationwide organic grocer chain could survive in an area known more for "Popeyes and bulletproof windows." As part of a larger revitalization of D.C.'s Logan Circle area that began in the early 1990s, Fresh Fields was lured to P Street by a concerned group of citizens determined to set the neighborhood in a new direction with high quality grocers, a bakery, a hardware store, and upscale bicycle shop. Now Fresh Fields handles 20,000 transactions a week and is transforming not only the face of the community, but also the people who live in it.
Tags: urban renewal; urban development; Washington D.C.; Fresh Fields
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Una Vida Mejor
The Times looks at Mexican immigrant workers and the connection between Palomas Mexico and a fishing village in North Carolina.
Tags: immigrant workers; mexico
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Seattle Times reports that businesses are still using single-hull tankers, which are extremely vulnerable; reports that government agencies are lax in enforcing safety regulations that result in serious accidents, Nov. 12 - 17, 1989.
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No title (id: 3592)
CBS News West 57th examines the White House "private aid network" supplying the contras; major findings include substantiated allegations of White House-sanctioned military aid during the Congressional ban, including training bases and trainers funded with money funneled through the National Security Council; the story centers around the activities of CIA/NSC liason John Hull, June 25, 1986.
Tags: TAPE; 3590; 3591; 3592 AND 3593 ARE ON THE SAME TAPE.
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No title (id: 2948)
Wall Street Journal reports on how the nation's four giant for-profit hospital chains are restructuring their health-care systems, Oct. 10, 1985.
Tags: Hull for-profit chains