All in Reporting Worth Reading
For the first time since the shooting, the owner of Borderline Bar and Grill hosted a dance for his old customers. Borderline’s brown stucco building in Thousand Oaks has been off limits since the shooting Nov. 7. Esmeralda Bermudez covers the story for the Los Angeles Times.
Madeline Buckley, writing at the Chicago Tribune, continues the newspaper’s in-depth coverage of the tragic weekend in August that saw at least 75 Chicagoans gunned down. The entire series, “75 Shot,” is worth checking out.
Under Louisiana law, you can wind up with a $5,000 fine and five years' jail time if someone comes in contact with your spit — if you're HIV positive. These laws are based on outdated science and multiple organizations are working to change them.
Michael E. Miller shares the story of Isaac Flores Amador, an 11-year-old immigrant boy who was separated from his mother, as Christmas approaches.
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., writing for the Washington Post, shares the story of the pop band Seventeen. They were performing at a private, beachside concert when this week’s deadly tsunami struck. Four people connected to the band remain missing.
Sam Levine, writing for The Huffington Post, shares the amazing story of Crystal Mason.
Casey Parks, writing for The Trace in partnership with Mississippi Today, shares the truly remarkable tale of Roger Stringer v. Remington.
Sean Patrick Cooper, writing for The Baffler, takes a close look at the future of ghostwriting.
David A. Fahrenthold, Matt Zapotosky and Seung Min Kim, writing for The Washington Post, unravel the many investigations mounting against Donald J. Trump.
This touching profile, written by Eli Saslow in June 2013, is worth revisiting as we mark the sixth anniversary of the tragic Sandy Hook shooting.
When Charles Barkley's mother, Charcey Glenn, passed away in June 2015, Barkley's hometown of Leeds, Alabama, came to the funeral to pay respects. But there was also an unexpected guest.
Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, writing for ProPublica and The Atlantic, dive in to this fascinating investigation. What they found is alarming.
The onetime graduate student admits to being a foreign agent who sought to establish back channels to Republicans through the NRA.
Feeling boxed in by her reputation for kindness, the comic is weighing whether to leave daytime TV, as her wife wants, or to stay, as her brother urges.
A California doctor is accused of unwanted sexual advances, medical incompetence, the maiming of women's genitals and the preventable death of an infant, a team reported after uncovering claims from more than 20 women. Yet he continued to practice for decades.
Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton, writing for the Los Angeles Times, have the story.
Factories along the Mexican border pollute the air and water in neighboring cities at deadly rates, while government regulators fail to rein in those responsible, Ian James, writing for the (Palm Springs, CA) Desert Sun, reports.
A Chicago mayor's nephew lost $54 million while managing the city's pension funds. Chicago Sun-Times reporter Tim Novak chased this story, finding the money had been spent on misguided real estate deals and management fees.
Prison employees in Maine kept secret allegations of a supervisor who sent female guards obscene photos and sexually assaulted at least one inmate in the laundry room, Erin Rhoda and Callie Ferguson reports for the Bangor Daily News.
In Texas, children are sexually abused or killed at alarming rates inside daycare facilities with little oversight, Andrea Ball and Tony Plohetski reported. In a yearlong investigation, the team reviewed 40,000 inspection records and built a database to look for patterns.
