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Till Death Do Us Part
The Post and Courier In South Carolina, a woman dies at the hands of a domestic abuser once every twelve days. More South Carolina women have been murdered by former or current lovers than South...
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Shining a Light on Boston Public Housing
Lauren Sutter/Spare Change News Boston has over 26,000 units of public and subsidized housing. Almost 60,000 residents call those units home. It's a huge challenge for the city to keep up the aging...
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Louisiana is Drowning
Edmund Fountain/The Lens The coastline of Louisiana is changing rapidly. In just 80 years, 2,000 miles of land have disappeared. The region is home to oil, gas, commercial seafood operations, shipping,...
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How to Game The College Rankings
Toan Trinh In the '90s, Northeastern University in Boston had a problem. The school was third-tier, overshadowed by a multitude of world-class institutions nearby. It was facing budget cuts and big...
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Halfway Hotels: Inside Vermont’s quick fix for homelessness
Vermont spent over 3 million dollars last year on motel vouchers for homeless families in desperate need of shelter. The Vermont Digger has just published a multimedia investigation into life in these...
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The Most Dangerous Place in New England
Statistically, the most dangerous place in New England may be the XFinity Concert Center in Mansfield, Mass. In the past two and a half years, thousands have been arrested or placed in protective...
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A Data Breach in Arizona
In 2007, a computer programmer for the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center packed up his equipment and returned home to Beijing. Lizhong Fan had worked for the center for five months....
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In Ferguson, Court Fines and Fees Fuel Anger
Tensions between the community and police in Ferguson captivated the world this summer. Protests broke out after the death of teenaged Michael Brown. But distrust between the people of Ferguson and...
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Bread, Milk and Mayhem
(Photo via FairWarning) "Just as Kimmy Dubuque was about to enter a Cumberland Farms convenience store to get a cup of coffee, she was struck and killed by an SUV. Police said the SUV, driven by an...
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Athletes, Assaults and Inaction
Photo via ESPN.com Colleges and universities throughout the country are allowing sexual assault allegations against student athletes to fall through the cracks. ESPN's Outside the Lines launched an...
View ArticleNumber of children placed in MA foster care rises sharply
The number of troubled children in Massachusetts taken out of their homes and placed under state supervision rose steeply in the past year, according to a report released Sept. 11. The number of...
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Foreign Powers Buy Influence At D.C. Think Tanks
In Washington D.C., lawmakers, government officials and the news media rely on think tanks to provide policy analysis and scholarship. These think tanks are supposedly independent, but a new...
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NECIR child fatality stories win Publick Occurrences award
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting will be honored with a prestigious 2014 “Publick Occurrences” award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association, NECIR Executive Director Joe...
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How aggressive police take millions from motorists not charged with crimes
Over three decades ago, at the height of the war on drugs, the government began practicing asset forfeiture. Basically, a police officer can take money or property from you, even if you've never been...
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Asylum seekers living in limbo in Maine
Hundreds of asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa live in Maine's major cities. These men and women live in limbo: they are undocumented, but protected from deportation. However, they cannot work...
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Latino workers die at higher rates in job accidents
Latino workers are increasingly taking on the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in American society--and they're paying for it with their lives. Los Angeles-based investigative nonprofit Fair Warning...
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Need to reach a DSS worker? Can you hold for 78 minutes?
The average wait time to speak to a Connecticut Department of Social Services worker on the phone was one hour and eighteen minutes in August. Seventy-one percent of people who wanted to speak to a DSS...
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Who’s behind the Chinese takeover of the world’s biggest pork producer?
Center for Investigative Reporting One year ago, a Chinese company bought Smithfield Foods. To date, the $4.7 billion deal is the biggest Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company in history. From the...
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Hollywood’s Vaccine Wars: L.A.’s “Entitled” Westsiders Behind City’s Epidemic
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana There's a growing epidemic in Los Angeles--more and more kids are contracting pertussis, or "whooping cough," and the measles. The reason? Wealthy parents are opting not to...
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Event Wednesday 9/30
Wednesday, September 30 at the WGBH Studios, 1 Guest St., Boston, MA Free for WGBH members; $20 non-members What are the Lyme disease wars? Can you know for sure if you are infected? Join us for this...
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