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The Centre Daily Times sounds the alarm on an unprecedented crisis in firefighting and rescue services across the state.
Vanishing volunteers, rising costs: Evolving pressures put squeeze on Pa. fire departments
Story By Sarah Paez | Video By Abby Drey | Centre Daily Times
The State caps off a months-long, multi-part investigation that shows how disease-carrying bacteria, cancer-causing chemicals, toxic nitrates and brain-damaging metals appear in small-town water systems, and how these poorly staffed and lightly regulated utilities can fail to respond.
Small-town drinking water woes can be fixed. Here’s how these SC communities did it
Story By Sammy Fretwell | Videos By Tracy Glantz and Ashlen Renner | The State and Video By Nicole L. Cvetnic | McClatchy
A real-time reporter reacts quickly to the college admissions scandal, looking at the celebrity angle missed by many news outlets and The Sac Bee team jumps in with extensive coverage of how the scandal got its start in Sacramento.
Famous actresses, CEOs among those accused in admissions scam to prestigious colleges
Story By Don Sweeney | Real-time DC
How the college admission scandal that hit Hollywood and Stanford got its start in Sacramento
Story By Dale Kasler, Sawsan Morrar, Darrell Smith, Michael Finch II and Michael McGough | Sacramento Bee
Miami makes national headlines by discovering that the founder of the massage parlor where Robert Kraft was busted was a generous GOP donor with ties to the president.
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted
Story By Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehamas and Caitlin Ostroff | Miami Herald| Video By Marta Oliver Craviotto | El Nuevo Herald
Wichita connects with its audience with a profile of a couple who eat at the same restaurant six days a week.
Couple has eaten at the same Wichita restaurant six nights a week for 15 years
Story By Denise Neil | Video By Travis Heying | The Wichita Eagle
Columbia and Myrtle Beach team up to examine human trafficking in South Carolina.
‘The devil you know.’ SC residents are selling family members into the sex trade
Stories By Cody Dulaney | The State and David Weissman and Hannah Strong | The Sun News| Videos By Gavin McIntyre | The State and By Nicole L. Cvetnic and Alexa Ard | McClatchy
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