Judge Hits New Orleans Cops with Harsh Sentences

by A.C. Thompson
ProPublica, April 4, 2012, 5:31 p.m.

A federal judge today sentenced five former New Orleans police officers for their roles in the Danziger Bridge shootings.

A History of FDA Inaction on Animal Antibiotics

by Lena Groeger
ProPublica, April 4, 2012, 10:23 a.m.

Despite years of evidence that feeding antibiotics to farm animals can be dangerous to human health, the FDA has taken few steps to regulate the drugs. Last month, a federal judge ordered them to finally take some action. Here we trace the history.