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Office Depot investigated for pricing fraud

"A two month I-Team investigation into Office Depot and its lucrative contracts with local governments and schools, is prompting swift action by Missouri's Attorney General," reports Leisa Zigman of KDSK-St. […]
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Escalator safety issues spotlighted

A story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution details escalator injuries throughout the metro area. Every week in metro Atlanta people are badly injured riding escalators. They fall and crack their heads, […]
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Journalists threatened as Mexico's drug war grows

William Booth of The Washington Post reports that journalists are finding themselves at increased risk as violence escalates in Mexico's drug war.  On November 13, Armando Rodríguez, a reporter for […]
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Some hospitals fail to contain MRSA outbreaks

The Seattle Times published the first part of a series revealing failures by Washington hospitals to control the spread of drug-resistant staph infections known as MRSA. Washington state hospitals are […]
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Health care system allows immigrants to fall through the cracks

Deborah Sontag of The New York Times continued the paper's "Getting Tough" series with an examination of some hospitals' practice of repatriating immigrant patients to their native countries without consent. […]
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Early voting data online

The Monitor in McAllen, Texas, has already posted a searchable database of who has voted so far during the early voting period of the general election, using data released daily […]
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Road repairs slower in minority neighborhoods

Keegan Kyle, Grant Smith and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed more than 11,000 pothole fixes in the city of Milwaukee and found that the city repaired potholes […]
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Water "dead zones" doubling each decade

A recent study shows that the number of "dead zones" in bodies of water across the globe has doubled every decade since the 1960s, reports Joel Achenbach of The Washington […]
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Gun lobby mole revealed

A Mother Jones investigation by James Ridgeway, Daniel Schulman and David Corn reveals that an NRA spy had infiltrated anti-gun groups for the past several years. The investigation shows that […]
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Renters caught in middle of foreclosure crisis

A report by Dina ElBoghdady of The Washington Post reveals that renters are becoming unwitting victims of the mortgage crisis as property owners lose houses to foreclosure. "Several localities around […]
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