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52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes, new data finds

52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes, new data finds

CBS News — Police agencies routinely resell or trade in their used duty weapons, a practice that has contributed to more than 52,000 police guns turning up at crime scenes since 2006, according to newly obtained data from the ATF.
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Investigation reveals how thousands of police guns are ending up in the hands of criminals

Investigation reveals how thousands of police guns are ending up in the hands of criminals

CBS News — A joint investigation conducted by CBS News and the nonprofit newsrooms The Trace and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting found that more than 140 law enforcement agencies nationwide sell or trade-in their used weapons when they update their arsenals. Thousands of those former cop guns are later tied to a crime.
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Watch CBS Evening News: How bridges can be protected to lessen impact - Full show on CBS

Watch CBS Evening News: How bridges can be protected to lessen impact - Full show on CBS

CBS — Could anything have been done to prevent the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge? Investigators say the bridge did have some kind of impact protection, but CBS News has learned that a majority of U.S. bridges do not. Stephen Stock has more.
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Traffic deaths rise in U.S. cities despite billions spent to make streets safer

Traffic deaths rise in U.S. cities despite billions spent to make streets safer

CBS News — CBS News analysis shows most federal traffic safety grants go to planning projects, rather than actual construction. Critics say slow progress contributes to rising deaths on America's roads.
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What's causing measles outbreaks? Experts point to vaccination decline, waning herd immunity

What's causing measles outbreaks? Experts point to vaccination decline, waning herd immunity

CBS News — Despite a safe and effective vaccine to protect against measles, a decrease in children getting immunized is leading to a comeback of the highly contagious and potentially deadly virus.
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Life-saving emergency alerts often come too late or not at all

Life-saving emergency alerts often come too late or not at all

CBS News — A CBS News investigation found numerous examples across the U.S. where emergency officials failed to issue timely alerts to warn the public about safety threats - or never issued an alert at all.
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Majority-Black school districts have far less money to invest in buildings - and students are fee...

Majority-Black school districts have far less money to invest in buildings - and students are fee...

CBS News — A CBS News investigation found stark disparities in funds invested in new buildings or facility improvements between school districts depending on their racial makeup.
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Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools

Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools

CBS News — More than 700 children were arrested in U.S. elementary schools during the 2017-2018 school year alone. CBS News National Investigative Correspondent Stephen Stock reports, Black kids and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted.
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Oroville Dam Safety Prompts Lawsuit

Oroville Dam Safety Prompts Lawsuit

KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — An NBC Bay Area investigation into the safety of the Oroville Dam has now prompted the City of Oroville itself to sue the state of California. The six month long investigation dug through tens of thousands of inspection reports, memos, consultant reports, letters and notices and found issues and questions about the safety of Oroville Dam itself.
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Requester's Voice: The Trace's Brian Freskos on using public records to explore gun theft

Requester's Voice: The Trace's Brian Freskos on using public records to explore gun theft

MuckRock — Interview with reporter Brian Freskos about how we did project "Missin Pieces" over the course of more than a year. A team of investigative reporters dug deep into local data to find that across the country, police recovered more than tens of thousands of stolen firearms, the vast majority of which were later connected to crimes including carjackings and kidnappings, armed robberies, sexual assaults, and murders.
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US Marine Deported 15 Years Ago Returns to United States

US Marine Deported 15 Years Ago Returns to United States

NBC BayArea KNTV — After our reporting on the issue of honorably discharged US Veterans who were deported by the US after they later got into trouble with the law, a story that first aired in February, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown issues clemency to three of those veterans. That cleared the way for one of them to return to the US legally just days before Christmas.
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Marine Veteran Deported 15 Years Ago Returns to US

Marine Veteran Deported 15 Years Ago Returns to US

NBC Bay Area KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — For the first time a US military veteran who had been deported for criminal acts after leaving the service returned, legally, to the United States. After 15 years living in Tijuana, Mexico, since being deported honorably discharged from the US Marines, 45-year-old Marco Chavez returned to the US Thursday morning.
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Missing Pieces: Stolen Guns, Stolen Lives

Missing Pieces: Stolen Guns, Stolen Lives

KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit teamed with a dozen other NBC stations around the country along with the non-profit journalism organization The Trace to compile data on the impact Stolen Guns have on communities around the country including the Bay Area.
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Officials Order Safety Review of Entire Oroville Dam

Officials Order Safety Review of Entire Oroville Dam

KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — The California Department of Water Resources announced this week the Oroville Dam will undergo an overall safety review. The action follows a six month long investigation by NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit that raised questions about the overall safety of the dam itself in wake of the failure of the dam's spillway system in February, 2017.
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Records Raise Safety Questions Surrounding Oroville Dam

Records Raise Safety Questions Surrounding Oroville Dam

NBC Bay Area — An NBC Bay Area examination of 20 years' worth of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD) inspection reports, engineering studies, Federal Part 12D independent consultant inspection reports, consultant letters and memos-nearly 10,000 pages of documents in all-repeatedly identified problems with the stability, safety and monitoring of Oroville Dam.
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Navy Vet Fights Deportation to Stay in US With His Children

Navy Vet Fights Deportation to Stay in US With His Children

NBC Bay Area — Joaquin Sotelo found himself only days away from being deported. That would have meant living in Sinaloa, Mexico, which he left with his mother and sister when he was 9 years old. It would also mean leaving behind his three children in the United States.
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California Company Sold Bogus Plane Parts Despite FAA Order

California Company Sold Bogus Plane Parts Despite FAA Order

NBC Bay Area KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit found thousands of instances where bogus and potentially dangerous airplane parts were surreptitiously installed on planes including major commercial airliners. In the aviation industry, every component of an aircraft must be tested and certified to ensure that it can withstand the rigors of commercial flight.
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Veterans Deported by US

Veterans Deported by US

KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — At first glance, it may seem like Tony Romo is living the good life - an apartment on a beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico. But in fact, the place where the retired Marine now lives has become, for him, a private hell. NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit travels to Mexico and uncovers hundreds of honorably discharged US Veterans who later got in trouble with the law after leaving the service. Those veterans were then deported under a policy first enacted during Bill Clinton's presidency.
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Unapproved Airplane Parts Creating Safety Risk in Aviation

Unapproved Airplane Parts Creating Safety Risk in Aviation

NBC Bay Area — According to NTSB data compiled and analyzed by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit, unapproved aviation parts played a role in nearly two dozen crashes that killed seven and injured 18 others since 2010. The Federal Aviation Administration logged at least 135 different instances of unapproved parts found in airplanes, including commercial passenger jets, in the last five years.
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Stolen & Lost Guns

Stolen & Lost Guns

youtube.com\NBC Bay Area — NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit teamed up with the investigative units at other NBC stations throughout California to build a unique database of guns connected to crime and then matched that with a database of all stolen and/or lost guns, tying thousands of those guns to later use in other crime.
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Hundreds of Guns Missing From Bay Area Police Agencies

Hundreds of Guns Missing From Bay Area Police Agencies

NBC Bay Area KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — An NBC Bay Area investigation into the loss and theft of police firearms uncovered more than 500 weapons have gone missing from eight different law enforcement agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and six local departments since 2010.
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Surviving the Drought

Surviving the Drought

NBC Bay Area KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit investigates California's water crisis by traveling to the Middle East to see how countries there use a different approach based on technology rather than the weather to address citizens' water needs. Our series asks the question: "If California is such a world innovator in high tech solutions to problems such as greenhouse gases and global warming why can't similar brainpower be used to solve water issues that have plagued the state since its inception?"
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Children in the Fields

Children in the Fields

NBC Bay Area KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — NBC Bay Area's Stephen Stock talks with teenagers who have been working in the fields, sometimes, since they were 8 years old, they say. The series examines how business and the law converge at the issue. After our first stories aired new laws in the US Congress were proposed. The series won an regional Edward R Murrow Award for TV Investigations.
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ICE on the Bayou: The Hidden Hub

ICE on the Bayou: The Hidden Hub

youtu.be — A WBRZ investigation has found that Alexandria International Airport has become the top hub for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights. First aired 6/24/2026
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