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Cheating on standardized tests suspected in one in five Georgia schools

Hundreds of Georgia schools are under investigation for cheating on state standardized tests. This week’s release of a state probe of erasure marks followed more than a year of stories […]
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Many children lack second dose of H1N1 flu vaccine

As many as 80% of children in some states who received a first dose of H1N1 vaccine haven't received a booster dose that's necessary to fully protect them from swine […]
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Bank collapse exposed oversight and inspection problems

A two-part report by The Denver Post examines how the federal and state bank regulatory system collapsed in the last decade, failing to catch fraud at New Frontier Bank, one […]
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Overtime inflates deputies' pay and pensions

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) used payroll records to show that two trainers at a police academy run by the sheriff have far more than doubled their pay through staggering amounts […]
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Distribution of economic development loans questioned

The Buffalo News analyzed loans and grants data to see how the city "spends the federal funds it receives to promote economic development and urban renewal." The analysis showed that […]
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Sexual Assault on Campus series

A nine-month investigation by the Center for Public Integrity looks at sexual assaults on college campuses. "According to a report funded by the Department of Justice, roughly one in five […]
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Mineral rights royalties poorly monitored in Virginia

A series by the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier exposed problems with Virginia's mineral rights leasing program. Landowners have been forced to lease their mineral rights to private companies with the […]
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Shut out of Social Security

Mike Chalmers of The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., found a pattern of "denial and delay" among administrative law judges who have the power to grant or deny Social Security […]
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Tulsa County's poorest spend most on lottery tickets

Using Oklahoma Lottery Commission sales data and U.S. Census Bureau data, the Tulsa World found that some of Tulsa County's poorest areas spend the most money on lottery tickets per […]
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Stimulus job reports riddled with errors, inflated numbers

“A stimulus job report that says more than 10,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin is rife with errors, double counting and inflated numbers based more on satisfying federal […]
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