
Dan Kane
Staff Writer, Investigative Team at The News & Observer
I'm on the News & Observer's investigative team. Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
charlotteobserver.com | Dan Kane
When people die in the custody of law enforcement, death records such as autopsies play a crucial role in revealing if anyone was at fault. One example: After Forsyth County jail inmate John Neville's died in custody in 2019, an autopsy made public the following year showed that he died from cardiac arrest after deputies restrained him on his stomach, suffocating him.
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2 weeks ago |
newsobserver.com | Cathy Clabby |Dan Kane |Korie Dean |Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan
In just a few years scientist Ralph Baric went from being heralded as a global leader in public-health focused coronavirus research, to a target of unprovenaccusations that he helped start a pandemic. The UNC-Chapel Hill professor spent decades studying emerging coronaviruses, long before the spread of COVID-19 ignited a worldwide health crisis in 2020.
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4 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Dan Kane
A state judge who previously dismissed a defamation case that has revealed secret moves to legalize casinos in North Carolina rejected an effort to remove him from the case, and said he would report the attorneys involved to the NC State Bar for disciplinary proceedings.
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4 weeks ago |
newsobserver.com | Dan Kane
Last year, two North Carolina nonprofits with ties to powerful state politicians took lawmakers on expensivetrips outside of the state. One took them on a distillery tour in the Louisville,Ky., area; the other to the Summer Olympics in Paris. But what the public can learn about who paid for what and who benefited is incomplete, due to limitations in the state's ethics and lobbying laws.
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1 month ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Dan Kane
The Cordish Companies of Baltimore acquired options to buy land. If the legislation had passed, the companies could have had a head start over any competitor.
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