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1 week ago | 
propublica.org | Mary Hudetz |Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. The director of Arizona’s embattled Medicaid agency resigned this week, just as she was expected to face questions from lawmakers about her handling of a massive fraud scheme that largely targeted Native Americans. Gov.
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1 week ago | 
propublica.org | Cassandra Jaramillo |Lizzie Presser |Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Texas Senate has unanimously passed legislation that aims to prevent maternal deaths under the state’s strict abortion ban. Written in response to a ProPublica investigation last year, Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, represents a remarkable turn among the Republican lawmakers who were the original supporters of the ban.
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2 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |T. Christian Miller |Duaa Eldeib |Patricia Callahan
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. U.S. farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. In Utah, they die by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in the state. A federal program offering Utah farmers free therapy was so successful that it ran out of money in four months.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Heather Vogell |Alec MacGillis |McKenzie Funk |Jessica Schreifels
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices. In one case, workers said an employee used a piece of cardboard from a trash bin to funnel coconut oil, a formula ingredient, into a tank during production.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |McKenzie Funk |Jeremy Schwartz |Dan Keemahill
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The last time Sam met with his therapist, Scott Owen, the session was nothing more than an hour of Owen sexually abusing him, he told a Provo, Utah, courtroom this week. Sam remembers sitting in his car afterward, screaming as loud as he could. “I could feel him all over my skin,” he said.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |J. David McSwane |Mara Silvers |Nadia Sussman
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Utah legislators this session took aim at life coaches who harm their clients’ mental health, but the law that the governor signed Wednesday stops short of prescribing minimum standards or ethical guidelines for the burgeoning profession.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Jessica Schreifels |Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jake Pearson
This story describes explicit details of a sexual assault. This article was produced by The Salt Lake Tribune, a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Former Utah therapist Scott Owen admitted in a Provo courtroom on Monday that he sexually abused several of his patients during sessions.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
sltrib.com | Jessica Schreifels
Note to readers * This story describes explicit details of alleged sexual assault. Utah County prosecutors on Tuesday filed more than a dozen new felony charges against OB-GYN David Broadbent, accusing him of sexually assaulting three of his patients during pregnancy exams. These counts are in addition to two felonies Broadbent already faces for allegedly sexually abusing a different patient.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Jessica Schreifels |Trent Nelson
Phoenix, Arizona * She was 14 years old in 2021 when Samuel Bateman decided he wanted her as a wife - and the self-proclaimed prophet took her as one of 20 women and girls he "spiritually married."Bateman was leading a sect that broke off from the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Being a Bateman "wife," the girl said in a victim impact statement, harmed every part of her life. He stripped her of her personality, her dreams and her ambitions, she wrote.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Trent Nelson |Jessica Schreifels
This is the second in a two-part series about the rise and fall of Samuel Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet who sexually abused girls he had taken as his wives. Read part one here. Colorado City, Arizona * A woman in a navy blue dress stood red-faced and sobbing, her head in her hands. Another sat on the floor staring blankly into the distance, looking shocked and confused. Other women hugged each other for comfort.
