Thousands of Police Calls. You Paid the Bills.
The number one place Tampa Bay cops visit: Walmart. And it’s not even close — they average two trips an hour.
The number one place Tampa Bay cops visit: Walmart. And it’s not even close — they average two trips an hour.
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Thanks to a single court case, the state of Maryland is releasing almost 150 violent offenders who believed they would spend their life behind bars.
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The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
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In bleak farmlands of East Anglia, the first wave of Eastern European migrants learned exploitation and extortion from their own experiences with day labor. Then they began to prey on fellow immigrants, luring in them into debt and then forcing them to commit crimes to pay it off.
Felicity Lawrence The Guardian May 2016 25min Permalink
Searching for the source of British Columbia’s grim flotsam.
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An investigation into sexual abuse at elite New England schools.
Jenn Abelson, Bella English, Jonathan Saltzman, Todd Wallack Boston Globe May 2016 25min Permalink
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David Vincenzetti says his company, which sells spyware to world’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is helping to thwart terrorism. Others say it’s a danger to citizens, dissidents, and journalists alike.
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The horror of being mentally ill in Florida’s prisons.
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Paul Le Roux could have been Mark Zuckerberg. Instead he became a 21st century John Gotti, running a massive criminal empire from his computer until he became an asset of the United States government.
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Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.
Matt Wolfe Oxford American Apr 2016 15min Permalink
The activists fighting for police reform in the wake of a video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop.
Ben Austen New York Times Magazine Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?
Oliver Bullough The Guardian Apr 2016 20min Permalink
They were florists working in Amsterdam’s largest flower market. They were also members of one of the most powerful arms of the Italian mafia. An investigation into how organized crime has gone global.
Steve Scherer Reuters Apr 2016 Permalink
How America’s first serial killer terrorized the city of Austin on Christmas Eve, 1885.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2016 15min Permalink
How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.
Flinder Boyd Rolling Stone Mar 2016 20min Permalink
A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.
Sonia Faleiro The California Sunday Magazine Mar 2016 20min Permalink
Why ISIS is winning the social media war.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink
“He was untouchable, or he thought he was. But that era is over, for all those guys.”
Jia Tolentino Jezebel Mar 2016 30min Permalink
Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.
Christie Thompson, Joe Shapiro The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.
Rebecca Solnit The Guardian Mar 2016 20min Permalink
On a November morning, Olympic rower and financial advisor Harold Backer left for a bike ride and never returned. His disappearance remained a mystery – until letters began arriving at the homes of his investors.
Kip McDaniel Chief Investment Officer Feb 2016 25min Permalink
Park Service and Forest Service employees face sexual harassment and assault in America’s wild places.
Kathryn Joyce Huffington Post Highline Mar 2016 30min Permalink
Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.
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A jailhouse interview.
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