The bill’s passage comes a year after APM Reports revealed that dozens of hospitals violated the 49-year-old law.

In June 2010, David Balash took the stand in the courthouse in Winona, Mississippi. As a court-appointed forensics expert, Balash had been tasked with reviewing the ballistics evidence in the Curtis ...

The number of convicted people entering the nation's prisons rose steadily through the 1980s and 1990s but has since peaked. At the same time, the population of those being released from prison each ...

Ever since the 2008 economic recession, the state of Oklahoma has struggled with worsening teacher shortages. As in many states, the problem in Oklahoma is two-fold: A growing number of teachers have ...

But more men are going into teaching. There was a 22 percent increase in the number of male teachers between 1988 and 2012. The increases were especially large among Hispanic and Asian men. However, ...

After Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989, a pastor named Thomas Gillespie of the St. Joseph Parish offered support and comfort to the Wetterling family. He invited them to dinner, opened the church ...

In spite of years of pressure from advocates, access to emergency contraceptives remains difficult for women who rely on the health care systems run by or on behalf of their tribal nations. APM ...

Cheryl Thompson, 62, sits for a portrait near her home in Southern Illinois in March 2024. Thompson said she was sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve and was not offered a forensic exam at Union ...

Co-reported by Tom Scheck of APM Reports and Scott Tong of Marketplace.. WASHINGTON — Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year made critical changes at the eleventh hour to ...

The police subjected Jacob Wetterling's parents, Jerry and Patty, to polygraph testing after their son was abducted in 1989."It's horrible," recalled Patty, who was tested by the Minnesota Bureau of ...

As President Trump prepares to release a list of projects that could be included in his $1 trillion infrastructure plan, groups are aggressively lobbying to make the cut. Over the past five months, ...

Pressure is mounting on two universities to change the way they train on-the-job educators to teach reading. The Ohio State University in Columbus and Lesley University near Boston both run prominent ...