Nonprofits are pivoting to help residents in a community facing the worst outbreak of COVID-19 of any zip code in the state, along with high rates of unemployment.
Children & Families
A Florida sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
This story was produced as a joint project led by Nathan O'Neal and Colton Shone, participants in the 2020 National Fellowship, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
City officials say they are trying to get testing sites up and running quickly, and plan to keep improving outreach efforts.
"The problem was, I was being played," writes contributor Bill Heisel. "The giant petrochemical company, Arco, had the city of Butte and the state of Montana outmatched."
The trend raises new concerns that regulators aren’t policing the industry enough during a crisis.
Gerald Chee isn't shy about his battles with substance abuse. Chee, who lives on the Navajo Nation, said he believes he got COVID-19 while partying with others.
Paris Hilton is speaking out publicly about what she says was abuse she endured while at a “troubled teen” facility in Utah in the 1990s.
A third of Black women in the state's only majority-minority Gadsden County have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to state data.
Children haven’t been spared from the racism that Asian Americans have faced since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.