August 4, 2009 -
City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.
August 3, 2009 -
Detainees at a privately-run detention center in Louisiana waged hunger strikes to protest inhumane conditions at the jail.
August 3, 2009 -
Bonner and Associates, a Washington lobbying firm that's working against the federal climate legislation, has been caught forging letters from African-American and Hispanic advocacy groups to a Virginia congressman.
August 3, 2009 -
For the past two years, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission has been crafting new rules to require water monitoring at factory hog farms, a significant source of pollution in the state.
July 31, 2009 -
By Olga Pierce, ProPublica
July 31, 2009 -
Across the country, states and community organizations continue to prepare their populations for the 2010 Census, underscoring that accurate counts are important to the economic recovery in these states.
