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Recovering after being attacked by an inmate inside the mitchellville womens prison. The man was one of four Corrections Officers injured in the fight. It happened tuesday in the prisons dining hall. The Union Representing the officers says the incident could have been prevented if more staff been on duty. They also say officers should be able to carry pepper spray inside the prison. And here they got the pepper spray locked up in the captains office and ya gotta run back and get permission to get it and by the time thats don the incidents over. Somebody is an inmate could be dead. An officer ...

An unprecedented stream of taxpayer money has been flowing into municipalities. Is it going where it’s supposed to? Are you up to speed on the best ways to…

It’s no easy task to cover your community when people who think civil war is inevitable show up at protests and political rallies. It’s hard to inform the…

This February, Poynter’s Beat Academy starts its second year with two webinars (Feb. 1 and Feb. 15) on covering extremist activity. These sessions will…

Poynter has a terrific program called the Beat Academy that provides training and support for beat writers. And although Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg,…