Gary Gately

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The Washington Post — September 21 Before she shot six co-workers at a Rite Aid warehouse here, killing three of them, Snochia Moseley, 26, had been beset for years by mental illness as well as emotional turmoil related to her struggle with sexual identity, according to authorities and a close friend of Moseley's.

The Washington Post — August 14 More than 300 Catholic priests across Pennsylvania sexually abused children over seven decades, protected by a hierarchy of church leaders who covered it up, according to a sweeping grand jury report released Tuesday. The investigation, one of the broadest inquiries into church sex abuse in U.S.

talkmedianews.com — WASHINGTON - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump's travel ban imposing tight restrictions on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries, culminating a divisive, tortuous legal battle that dates to the first days of Trump's presidency.

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talkmedianews.com — WASHINGTON - Iowa Republicans who approved the nation's strictest abortion measure predict it will trigger a legal battle that ultimately leads to the Supreme Court's overturning Roe v. Wade. The bill, approved by the state's GOP-controlled legislature Wednesday, would outlaw almost all abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Maryland Life Magazine — Smith Island has weathered storms -- literal and figurative -- for three centuries. It is a place steeled by hurricanes and Nor'easters and floods; seasons when no amount of ingenuity or work ethic could coax a decent catch from the bay’s waters; frigid winter weeks being shut off from the mainland by a frozen bay on every side; “oyster wars” and gunfire over the bivalves, before disease wiped them out; over-fishing and, any local will tell you, over-regulation. And the bay’s forever swallowing Smith Island, sometimes bit by bit, but occasionally, devouring huge swaths of the marshy land all at once. But today, it's fighting for its very survival.

The Guardian — Latonya Bryant can still see Ernest Barnes Jr, her 24-year-old son, smiling and calling out to her in the sunshine that June 2014 afternoon, his words like an echo that keeps getting louder. "He's waving to me in the back yard of our house and saying, 'Ma, I love you,' and I say, 'Baby, I love you, too,'" Bryant remembers.

The Washington Post — Many white people fought alongside African Americans in the civil rights movement. But few made as vital and enduring an impact as Jack Greenberg, a protege of and successor to Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The New York Times — BALTIMORE -- Hardly anybody lives on this blighted block in East Baltimore anymore. On a steamy Friday morning, a few people mill about outside the two row houses that still have life left in them. All the rest of the houses on this block of Bethel Street are boarded shells. On the side of a vacant row house overlooking a playground, long since taken over by a drug gang, there is a spray-painted image of a bullet and the words "Body-More Murdaland." About two miles away, the city's Inner Harbor teems with life. Yachts and paddleboats crowd the water. Throngs stroll the brick promenades. Musicians and mimes perform, and the city celebrates the 25th birthday of the twin shopping and dining pavilions of Harborplace. City benches read "Baltimore -- The Greatest City in America." These sharply contrasting views of Baltimore underlie a sharp dispute between an influential advocacy group, led by clergy members, and a prominent local politician. Last week, angry ministers protested, accusing the City Council president, Sheila Dixon, of reneging on a promise to provide $50 million for the redevelopment of blighted neighborhoods as the council considers building a $305 million hotel just west of the harbor. It would be connected to the existing Baltimore Convention Center and owned by the city.

The Boston Globe — NEW YORK -- In the city beneath the city, a world that pulsates with a life all its own, Natalia Paruz coaxes the sweetest of melodies from a 32-inch wood saw. She's sitting on a stool in the Union Square subway station, playing Bach, Mozart, and Schubert with a cello bow, and something extraordinary happens. As the ethereal sounds of "Ave Maria" reverberate in the cavernous station, hundreds of harried straphangers gather to watch and listen to this slight, red-haired woman making music with a saw. Paruz, a.k.a. "SawLady," has played her saw at Lincoln Center, in Paris, with the Morocco Philharmonic, and with the Israel Philharmonic. I led with Paruz and traveled all over New York City by subways -- and took the readers on a journey with me as the system celebrated its 100th anniversary.

CNBC — Dr. Victor Velculescu envisions a day - not so far off - when screening for cancer will become as simple as a blood test during your annual physical. Unique cancer mutations show up in microscopic fragments of DNA in a patient's blood, which can give physicians a telltale sign of the presence of the disease in almost all types of cancer mutations - within cells or floating freely in the bloodstream. The "liquid biopsies," as the tests are known, have become something of a Holy Grail in cancer treatment among physicians, researchers and companies betting big on the technology.

CNBC — With the reputation of U.S. for-profit colleges in tatters, one company has found a convenient way to circumvent regulation in this country: by operating primarily in overseas markets. Baltimore-based Laureate Education, the world's largest for-profit higher-education company by enrollment (with about 1 million students now enrolled worldwide), operates in a sector plagued by government scrutiny in the U.S. and in which one major for-profit education company, Corinthian Colleges, declared bankruptcy earlier this year. But Laureate gets 84 percent of its revenue from outside this country, most of it from Latin America. Both at its U.S. and foreign schools, critics say, Laureate puts too much emphasis on marketing, advertising, executive salaries and recruitment of students and too little on quality education.

caseygrants.org — The parents, grandparents, educators and clergy have been starving themselves since Aug. 17, subsisting only on water and juice. The hunger strikers, who are now on Day 30 of their protest, joined scores of demonstrators who have taken to marching in candlelight vigils to President Barack Obama's home in Chicago every night.

caseygrants.org — As police face questions about use of force and fatal shootings of unarmed Black men, Los Angeles is retraining its 10,000 police officers to ease tensions. Will it help? Charly Leundeu Keunang had this dream of becoming an actor.

jjie.org — Cindy Sanford had been managing an art gallery in a tiny town in Pennsylvania when she first saw the stunning paintings on leaves. She didn't know at the time a man serving a sentence of juvenile life without parole for his role in a double murder had painted them. All her life, she had considered herself a staunch, law-and-order conservative Republican who believed murderers should be locked up -- for good. But through letters from the inmate, Kenneth Crawford IIII, then phone calls and regular visits with him, she would gradually come to see the goodness in him first through his art, then through the details of his life and his remarkable story of redemption,. Sanford and her husband, Keith, now view Crawford as a fourth son and have legally adopted him.

Center for Public Integrity — They're know as "dual-status youth" -- kids involved in both the juvenile justice and child welfare system -- and their cases typically present enormous challenges: Many of the children are chronic runaways who have suffered from severe physical or emotional abuse, neglect and abandonment. And they typically come from troubled homes often beset by domestic violence, substance abuse and mental illness. But in most places in America, the people charged with helping them in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems hardly speak to one another, much less coordinate services, because of the longstanding gulf between the two systems. My reporting showed this disconnect has contributed to devastating consequences for these vulnerable children, whose numbers are conservatively estimated at 10,000 in the United States. Experts familiar with dual-status youths told me this story was the best they had ever read on the subject, and I think the piece performed a great public service.

Baltimore Style Magazine — More than three decades after he left this earth, I can still see my father best at Christmastime. This essay became an act of love for my long-dead father, and I received more positive feedback on it than for almost any other piece I have ever written.