Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.

An outsider artist’s odyssey to the center of his daughter’s life.

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.

After flames engulfed an Atlanta highway last year, police arrested Basil Eleby for arson. The fire could have destroyed his life. Instead, it may have saved it.

On the seminal songwriter, who died four years ago today, in his final days before succumbing to dipsomania.

On codeine syrup and Sprite

After Brooke Melton died in a car crash, her parents approached attorney Lance Cooper to investigate. What he found in her 2005 Chevy Cobalt would lead to GM’s 30 million-vehicle recall.

While on a string of tour dates opening for Radiohead, interaction between Mark Linkous’ antidepressants and the Rohypnol he took to sleep caused him to pass out. A hotel maid found him the next morning bent into a position where his legs had been cut off from circulation. When they untangled, built-up potassium shot from his lower body upward, triggering a harmful chain reaction that caused a heart attack and kidney failure.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

Kylee Kimbrough lost her childhood, lost her sobriety, lost her living situation, and finally even lost her son. Then she found the drums.