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Authorities in Indiana and Ohio have launched investigations into suspected serial killings after a Scripps Howard News Service study of FBI computer files found many alarming clusters of unsolved homicides of women across the nation.
A widespread method of extracting natural gas by fracking, or shooting chemical-laced water underground, is a growing threat to water supplies in 28 states, say scientists, landowners and environmentalists.
A behind-the-scenes look at the interactions between lobbyists and legislators over proposed legislation that would allow state alcohol regulators to restrict out-of-state sales of alcohol and help protect the wholesalers' entrenched position as alcohol middlemen.
Thousands of convicted sex offenders are evading state and federal authorities, congregating in regions thought to have lax enforcement, slipping back and forth to Mexico or disregarding laws on reporting their whereabouts.
A four-year international investigation into the backers of hundreds of child pornography websites has identified 30,000 customers in 132 countries, led to hundreds of American convictions and landed the ring running the sites in Eastern European jails.
As student athletes return to competition, their parents likely are unaware that barely a third of America's high schools with a sports program have a full-time professional athletic trainer.
A four-month Scripps Howard News Service review found that for every high school that has one or more athletic trainers regularly assigned to the training room, two other schools rely on a patchwork of coaches trained in first aid and part-time athletic trainers, nurses, emergency medical technicians or team doctors.
This is the Scripps Newspaper Division's Future of News project analyzing major changes under way in the media and in the delivery of information to consumers.
Despite dramatic improvements in DNA analysis and other breakthroughs in forensic science, police fail to make an arrest in more than one-third of all homicides. National clearance rates for murder and manslaughter have fallen from about 90 percent in the 1960s to below 65 percent in recent years.
More than 100 people die every day on America's killer roads. The routine act of driving has become the riskiest thing most Americans do. Yet sometimes the deadliest roads seem disarmingly safe -- a small country lane winding gently through rolling hills or a perfectly straight superhighway stretching across a vast desert landscape.
America's wild hog population is exploding and spreading across the country, more than doubling in size and range in the past 20 years. Two decades ago, somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million wild pigs roamed the United States in 17 states. Now the population numbers between 2 million and 6 million in 44 states.
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Authorities in Indiana and Ohio have launched investigations into suspected serial killings after a Scripps Howard News Service study of FBI computer files found many alarming clusters of unsolved homicides of women across the nation.
A widespread method of extracting natural gas by fracking, or shooting chemical-laced water underground, is a growing threat to water supplies in 28 states, say scientists, landowners and environmentalists.
A behind-the-scenes look at the interactions between lobbyists and legislators over proposed legislation that would allow state alcohol regulators to restrict out-of-state sales of alcohol and help protect the wholesalers' entrenched position as alcohol middlemen.
Thousands of convicted sex offenders are evading state and federal authorities, congregating in regions thought to have lax enforcement, slipping back and forth to Mexico or disregarding laws on reporting their whereabouts.
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