After a night out, Efrain Sarmiento fell asleep on the couch in his one-bedroom apartment. In the middle of the night, he woke up to the smell of smoke. He didn’t hear any fire alarms go off.
Community Safety
The recent deployment of the National Guard and California Highway Patrol onto San Francisco’s streets to crack down on drugs comes amid intense public pressure to address open air drug use and sales.
The proposed reforms aim to fix long-standing structural issues in the child care system, among them problems The San Diego Union-Tribune detailed in an in-depth series on the real costs of child care.
As part of its "Safer Sidelines" project, The Courier Journal created a database of every sudden death of an athlete in the U.S.
Amy Silverman and KJZZ reported that abuse and neglect of people with IDD can happen anywhere — it's not limited to the institutions of the past.
A lot of thought and effort went into one outlet's investigation of sudden deaths among high school athletes. Here’s an inside look into how they did it.
Coroners' records reviewed by LAist show a jump in suicides inside L.A. County’s downtown jail complex in 2021.
Two domestic violence advocates explain why "transformative justice" offers an urgently needed alternative.
“I’ve always felt that mental health has never been important to newspapers, to society,” Wan told fellow reporters this week. His stories are trying to change that.
Alison Saldanha reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 Data Fellowship.