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State lawmakers should use their power to hold the Rutherford County Commission accountable for the county's abusive juvenile justice system.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

Despite years of complaints against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, the DOJ has not stepped in to help. Following our investigation, the ACLU renews the call to action and has asked the DOJ to launch an investigation.

Citing a Palm Beach Post/ProPublica report on the burning of cane fields, leading members of Congress have called for the EPA to investigate air monitoring in Florida and to change national pollution standards.

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Commercial aviation in Alaska: Essential and deadly June 24th 11:34 am | Zoë Sobel and Agnel Philip, KUCB and ProPublica   Some say FAA has been slow to account for hazards, putting pilots, customers at risk On a clear day in May 2019, the tourist season was just starting up in Ketchikan, a city of 8,000 that had become a cruise ship hot spot. For Randy Sullivan, that meant another day - his fifth in a row - of flying sightseeing tours and charters. Sullivan and his wife, Julie, owned Mo...

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The federal agency that funds 180 schools for Native American students has failed to tell the public how its schools compare. Our analysis fills in the gap.

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By Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Arizona Republic. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Read how we analyzed test scores to compare the...