Where Have All the Lawyers Gone?
Taurino Torres was driving home with his 11-year-old son when he made what he thought was a routine turn onto East Gutierrez Street from Milpas Street in downtown Santa Barbara. A police car pulled him...
View ArticleHartford Councilman Faces Ethics Review Over Controversial Land Deal
Hartford City Council member Alexander Aponte is facing an ethics review surrounding his involvement in a controversial land deal that netted the Spanish American Merchants Association, or SAMA,...
View ArticleSpecial Interest Groups Spend Big During Legislative Session
Political action committees operated by some of Rhode Island’s most powerful special-interest groups spent more than $728,000 during the legislative session, according to a WPRI.com review of campaign...
View ArticleWomen Fighting Back On Video Game Misogyny
During a Microsoft press conference in June, a male video game producer and female community manager played a fighting game onstage. While virtually punching and kicking each other, the man and woman...
View ArticleThousands of Nursing Home Beds Empty as State Rebalances Care
At the Governor’s House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Simsbury, 17 of the nursing home’s 73 beds sat empty this spring – a 23-percent vacancy rate that would have been unlikely five years ago....
View ArticleState wants $70k before releasing disclosure forms
To help keep backroom hiring deals from larding the state payroll with nepotism hires, newly-hired state employees must publicly declare if they have any immediate relatives working for the state, and...
View ArticleGroups seek online child care information
More official information is available online about violations of state regulations at nail salons than at child care centers — a state of affairs that doesn’t sit well with some parents and child...
View ArticleAfter Irene: ER wait times for psychiatric patients longer than ever
It has been two years and four mental health commissioners since Tropical Storm Irene inundated and effectively closed the Vermont State Hospital. As a new regionalized mental health system takes...
View ArticleState universities paying agents to recruit international students
This September, among the new students attending the University of Maine’s orientation in Orono will be two students from China and one each from India, Vietnam and Bangladesh. That the students are...
View ArticleI-Team: Army vet files discrimination suit against CCRI
Sgt. Jason Morel served his country in the U.S. Army. He’s now retired. He told NBC 10 he saw combat, and death. “I’d rather not get into the details of that if I could ask you kindly because I lost a...
View ArticleBehind the pharmacy counter: the unseen drug theft problem
Most of the people who fill your prescriptions are honest and do their job well. But some of those people in white smocks are thieves, drug addicts or both. The typical image of drug thieves is armed...
View ArticleYears of warning signs preceded Wakefield child-care worker’s arrest on child...
It does not take much for Kevin to summon the rage that consumed him in April 1989 after learning his 5-year-old son had been molested by a baby sitter. Kevin’s first impulse was to track down and kill...
View ArticleSafeguards failed, so evil got another chance
Even after a quarter-century, it does not take much for Kevin to summon the rage that consumed him in April 1989 after learning his 5-year-old son had been molested by a baby sitter. Kevin’s first...
View ArticleImmigrants held in solitary, often for weeks
WASHINGTON — On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities that make up the sprawling patchwork of holding centers nationwide overseen...
View ArticleSome pharmacists get their licenses back despite history of drug abuse
The sole purpose of the board that regulates pharmacists in Maine is to “protect the public health and welfare,” according to state law. But in thirteen cases over the last decade the board has...
View ArticleWest Roxbury man lived lavishly off Ponzi scheme, police say
Expensive trips to the Bahamas and six-figure gambling debts were just some of the expenses police records show a West Roxbury man paid with what authorities say is millions he stole in a Ponzi scheme...
View ArticleI-Team: High levels of contaminants found at Sam’s Club site
An old, industrial-sized motor and a rusted out 1,500 gallon fuel tank were just a few of the big ticket items pulled out of the ground at the new Sam’s Club site in Warwick off of Bald Hill Road. The...
View ArticleFraud, abuse in free cellphone program costs millions
Team 5 Investigates has uncovered fraud and abuse in a multibillion-dollar government program that’s supposed to be helping low-income individuals find jobs, access emergency services and connect with...
View ArticleFOX Undercover: Former residents casting Boston ballots
Krystina Chan voted in Boston’s Sept. 24 preliminary election, helping whittle down the field of 12 mayoral candidates to the current two. Problem is, she didn’t live in Boston when she voted. Chan...
View ArticleMartha Coakley’s campaign funds in disarray
As attorney general, Martha Coakley has doggedly pursued campaign finance scofflaws, yet Coakley, now a candidate for governor, has also used her own federal political account for questionable...
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