Animal rescue centers have been buying dogs at auction from the very puppy mills they protest. Those dogs are then adopted out in exchange for significant donations,.

North Carolina’s Alexander County is a Southern Baptist stronghold. It’s also home to Mitchell Gold, an outspoken gay rights activist and the CEO of one of the region’s largest employers.

“It’s not like I told myself, okay, this is it, you’re gonna take the guy outside and throw him off the goddam boat.”

Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?

“If we don’t run, then we won’t achieve.”

At 15, Ruben Urbina couldn’t bear his depression and anxiety anymore. So he called police with a chilling threat.

What happened next for the Barden family.

“Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.”

The short friendship of Kody Robertson and Michelle Vo.

It turns out “Madame Giselle” wasn’t any of these things, couldn’t make her Chevy Chase, Maryland, neighbors rich, and may have been at the center of a massive scandal in Colombia.

Serial arson in rural Virginia: a love story.

When a town becomes divided between those who work and those who don’t.

Life for a Muslim doctor in rural Minnesota before and after the election of Donald Trump.

Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?

“I feel like we sort of choked.”

The story of a school shooting in Townville, S.C. and what happened to the first-graders who saw it all happen.

A federal judge resents the harshness of mandatory drug sentences.

Did a school for spies get conned by a fake spook who molested students?

To be a second-grader contending with violence.

“Sometimes I wake up and think this isn’t happening.”

Between 1996 and 2015, the number of working-age adults receiving federal disability payments increased dramatically — but nowhere more so than in rural America. This is one man’s story.

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.”

Gwen Wright was raised in dozens of foster homes. A new housing experiment could spare her son the same fate.

Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.