An investigation by The Washington Post takes a hard look at charter schools in Washington, D.C. Approximately one-third of city's children attend charter schools.

Some Georgia schools made astonishing improvements when their failing students were re-tested, according to an analysis of testing data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ian Demsky of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. found that nearly a third of the voters in Pierce County cast their ballots for Democratic president-elect Barack Obama and Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi.

The News Journal’s three-part series on Delaware’s volunteer firefighters exposed slow response times, manpower shortages, archaic rules and lopsided funding formulas, as well as potential solutions and alternatives to the current system.

Over the past decade, there has been a marked increase in the number of Army aviation accidents, according to a report by Michael Fabey of Aviation Week.

Oklahoma voters gave Republican Sen. John McCain one of his largest margins of victory over Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential election earlier this month. But an analysis of precinct results from across the state by The Oklahoman shows Obama claiming heavily populated urban areas and pockets of support in eastern Oklahoma. McCain outpolled Obama [...]

An Associated Press analysis of federal drug data shows the U.S. government has spent over $200 million since 2004 on drugs that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

A report by the I-Team at CBS-4 in Miami showed many day-care centers in metropolitan South Florida have operated for years without complying with state safety standards, according to public records.  Stephen Stock of WFOR led an investigation that pored through more than 7,000 paper inspection reports. Members of the IRE/NICAR Database Library staff assisted [...]

An investigation by Gavin Off of the Tulsa World revealed serious issues in farm subsidy dollars.

The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind. found that 2,172 voters in Indiana's Allen County had names and birthdates identical to those in Florida.

An analysis by TexasWatchdog.com matched information from Harris County, Tex. voter rolls to Social Security death data and found ballots had been cast in the names of dead people more than 40 times since 2004.

An analysis by The Washington Post found "U.S. government agencies made at least $5 billion in mistakes in their recent reports of contracts awarded to small businesses, with many claiming credit for awards to companies that long ago outgrew the designation or never qualified in the first place."

The latest campaign finance disclosures point to a proliferation of large donors supporting candidates and their parties and much of that money is coming from donors with interests in Washington, according to a report by Michael Luo and Griff Palmer of The New York Times.

A project by CTV-British Columbia and ESRI Canada mapped parking ticket trends in Vancouver.

Jason Kandel of the Los Angeles Daily News reports that overtime pay for Los Angeles police officers has increased almost 150 percent in the past decade.

An investigation by The Seattle Times shows that Congressional earmarks remain a problem despite efforts in ethics reform.

Michael Luo and Griff Palmer of The New York Times report that nearly 3,000 donations to Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign have been in the name of fake donors.

"State senators may be violating a Texas Constitution ban on using taxpayer money for bonuses to government workers by approving temporary end-of-year raises to give staffers thousands of dollars in extra pay," reported Matt Stiles of the Houston Chronicle.

An investigation by D.L. Bennett, Cameron McWhirter, Heather Vogell and data analysts Megan Clarke and John Perry of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found that the apathy and negligence of workers at the Fulton County 911 call center endangered the lives of emergency workers and of those seeking emergency help.

A series by Brad Branan of The Fresno Bee looks at problems with how the city of Fresno, Calif. regulates development.