Emily Hamer

2 weeks ago | madison.com | Emily Hamer

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of sexual violence against children. Tucson police are investigating allegations that a longtime member of the Golden Dawn Tabernacle molested a boy in 2012 and the church’s pastor covered it up. A member of a Tucson church admitted he molested a boy. The pastor said he knew and never went to the police, flouting state laws that mandate reporting of such incidents.

2 weeks ago | tucson.com | Emily Hamer |Tim Steller

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of sexual violence against children. Tucson police are investigating allegations that a longtime member of the Golden Dawn Tabernacle molested a boy in 2012 and the church’s pastor covered it up. A member of a Tucson church admitted he molested a boy. The pastor said he knew and never went to the police, flouting state laws that mandate reporting of such incidents.

1 month ago | journaltimes.com | Emily Hamer

Since she escaped from Afghanistan to Wisconsin more than three years ago, Zahra Hakimi has experienced a brightness to her life that would have been stripped from her had she stayed in her native country. She’s studying computer science at Arizona State University and has a job with the university’s web services department. She has snowboarded in Utah, ran marathons in New York and California, visited the Grand Canyon and showcased one of her paintings in an art exhibit.

1 month ago | tdn.com | Emily Hamer

Richard Smith walked into the courtroom in the Coos County Jail in Oregon in early August, chained at his wrists, waist and feet to a line of seven other men accused of crimes. All of them were still presumed innocent. None of them had public defenders. Each took turns standing up in front of the judge so he could tell them the same thing: "No attorneys," Smith recalled. "They just keep doing that over and over and over every week," Smith said from jail Aug. 6. "Nobody seems to know what’s going on.

2 months ago | tucson.com | Emily Hamer

Since she escaped from Afghanistan to Wisconsin more than three years ago, Zahra Hakimi has experienced a brightness to her life that would have been stripped from her had she stayed in her native country. She's studying computer science at Arizona State University and has a job with the university's web services department. She's snowboarded in Utah, ran marathons in New York and California, visited the Grand Canyon and showcased one of her paintings in an art exhibit.