Massachusetts GOP demands explanation for $75,000 East Boston earmark
Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Kristen Hughes called out East Boston Democratic state Sen. Anthony Petruccelli today for sponsoring an earmark featured in a recent report by WGBH News and the...
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NECIR wins Publick Occurrences awards for medical and debt investigations
NECIROne of NECIR's 2014 Publick Occurrences Award plaques The New England Center for Investigative Reporting has won highest honors from the New England Newspaper & Press Association for...
View ArticleFederal bill calls for better education for prenatal genetic tests
Worried that too few doctors and pregnant women understand that new prenatal genetic tests can be wrong a significant amount of time, two U.S. Congresswomen from opposite ends of the abortion debate...
View ArticleOut of the shadows
With 110 child abuse and neglect deaths in five years, a third of them under the watch of DCF, the state is failing to learn from the tragic toll.
View ArticleInfographic: Untold stories
An interactive look at 110 Massachusetts child abuse and neglect deaths
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Information denied, children endangered
It is a federal mandate for states to publicly disclose information about child fatalities caused by abuse or neglect so that such tragedies can be prevented in the future. But obtaining that grim...
View ArticleOut of the shadows: Shining light on state failures to learn from rising...
Child abuse and neglect deaths are on the rise in Massachusetts. But with 110 such deaths in five years, a third of them under the watch of DCF, the state is failing to learn from the tragic toll.
View ArticleWatchdog Reporting Workshop: November 12
Date: November 12, 2015 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: Portland Press Herald, One City Center, Portland, Maine The New England Center for Investigative Reporting is hosting a one-day watchdog reporting...
View ArticleACLU Pennsylvania honors NECIR reporter Isaiah Thompson
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting is proud to share the news that reporter Isaiah Thompson has received a 2015 Civil Libertarian Award from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)...
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Loopholes in national railroad policy take communities by surprise...
Click here to return to the original version of this story. GRAFTON, Mass. — In early 2012, residents of this sleepy town began to notice an unusual amount of activity around the Grafton & Upton...
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Loopholes in national railroad policy take communities by surprise
Click here to read this story backed up by primary documents. In early 2012, residents of this sleepy town began to notice an unusual amount of activity around the Grafton & Upton rail yard at the...
View ArticleNECIR Executive Director announces retirement; will remain active with...
Longtime Boston investigative reporter Joe Bergantino, who co-founded the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, announced today that he will be retiring from the position of NECIR’s executive...
View ArticleGov. Baker unveils DCF reforms to ‘keep kids safe’
Gov. Charlie Baker announced today system-wide reforms in the troubled state Department of Children and Families – including policies to better assess safety risks to vulnerable children from the first...
View ArticleSouth America is safe haven for Catholic Church’s alleged child molesters
Catholic leaders have “allowed allegedly abusive priests to slip off to parts of the world where they would face less scrutiny from prosecutors and the media,” GlobalPost reports. The yearlong...
View ArticleYoung prison inmates assaulted in broomstick ritual
Young Florida prison inmates face the “test of heart,” a brutal but apparently routine assault by other prisoners upon arriving in prison, the Miami Herald reports. Gesnerson Louisius, 19, filed a...
View ArticleThe untold story of the Texas biker gang shootout
Last May, a shootout at a restaurant in Waco, Tex., left 9 dead, 20 wounded, and nearly 180 people in police custody. GQ interviewed 22 bikers involved and analyzed the events through the eyes of 22...
View ArticleDid a rogue NSA operation cause the death of a Greek Telecom employee?
A bugging system installed by the US National Security Agency in the Greek telecommunications and security systems for the 2004 Olympics, apparently was never taken away, and was used to spy on more...
View ArticleTrouble behind bars: When jail deaths go unnoticed
At least 154 inmates died in a Kentucky jails during the past 6½ years. “Trouble Behind Bars” – a five-part series by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting – documents how “numerous jail...
View ArticleCell-phone lobby 911 win means ‘more people will die’
Rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission in 2014 intended to make cellphone carrier companies such as AT&T and Verizon provide more accurate caller locations for emergency...
View ArticleWith no U.S. regulation, pesticide use on pot crops is a public health threat
In states where marijuana has been legalized, growers face increasing pressure to maintain healthy cannabis crops. But lack of research and regulation on use of pesticides in marijuana production...
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