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APM Reports is a national organization focused on investigative journalism and documentary storytelling, covering a wide variety of subjects. They are also the team behind the popular podcast, "In the Dark."

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Most school districts have lots of kids who struggle with reading. This one is different.

2 months ago | apmreports.org | Carmela Guaglianone |Emily Hanford

The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual. In fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40% of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well. Last year, almost every third grader in Steubenville City Schools scored proficient on the state’s reading test. Statewide, one in three third graders in Ohio missed that mark.
Native women fought for years to expand Plan B access. But some tribal clinics remain resistant.

Oct 21, 2024 | apmreports.org | Allison Herrera |Anika Besst |Claire Keenan-Kurgan |Kate Martin

The emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, which can prevent pregnancy following unprotected sex, has been available over the counter at most American pharmacies for more than a decade. But in more than 100 federally funded clinics and pharmacies run by or on behalf of Native American tribal nations, the medication is harder to access — if it’s available at all.
As murders increased, St. Louis police struggled for resources to solve cases

Jun 5, 2024 | apmreports.org | Tom Scheck |Jennifer Lu |Rachel Lippmann

In the first months of 2019, St. Louis leaders were facing a crisis. The city had endured the highest homicide rate in the nation for five straight years. By May, 70 people had already been killed, including a quadruple homicide. The city had budgeted for 100 more officers than were on the job; detectives were scrambling to solve cases. Police would solve only about a third of the homicides that year, according to department records.
Some St. Louis detectives may have botched homicide investigations

Jun 4, 2024 | apmreports.org | Rachel Lippmann |Tom Scheck |Jennifer Lu

In the summer of 2019, a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer named Ronald Vaughan was assigned to the overnight homicide squad supervised by Sgt. Heather Taylor. Vaughan had somewhat of a checkered past. Two years before, he allegedly shoved and pepper-sprayed a pastor and shocked a local activist with a Taser during a peaceful protest, according to a lawsuit.
In St. Louis, a racial disparity in whose killings get solved

Jun 3, 2024 | apmreports.org | Tom Scheck |Jennifer Lu |Rachel Lippmann

On Shulte Avenue on the northside of St. Louis, the sites of the killings are just steps away from each other. Terrell Hall, 47, was killed near a brick one-story home at the intersection of Shulte and Mimika avenues in 2020. About 90 paces down the street, Andre Brookfield was shot to death in a car parked in the alley in 2012. A few steps away, a drive-by shooter gunned down Whitney Brown and Devon Fletcher on the sidewalk in 2015.
How we reported on homicide investigations in St. Louis

Jun 2, 2024 | apmreports.org | Jennifer Lu |Rachel Lippmann

In February 2021, St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports began an investigation — later joined by The Marshall Project — into the struggles of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to solve homicides. While St. Louis’ record-high homicide rate was well-known, the police department’s ability to solve those homicides had received less scrutiny. APM Reports and STLPR wanted to know what percentage of homicides police were solving and whether this figure differed by race.
'There's a thoughtfulness about reading in the country today'

Apr 11, 2024 | apmreports.org | Emily Hanford

A lot has changed since Sold a Story came out in the fall of 2022. At least 15 states have passed new laws to try to change the way schools teach reading. And there have been consequences for the people and organizations who promoted the flawed idea we focused on in the podcast. Teachers College, Columbia University, announced that Lucy Calkins would no longer lead the teacher training institute she founded there more than 40 years ago. Sales are down at the publisher, Heinemann.
Judges use ‘arbitrary,’ ‘horrendous’ reasons to keep teens in adult court

Mar 20, 2024 | apmreports.org | Jennifer Lu |Claire Keenan-Kurgan

Each year, hundreds of Maryland teens find themselves face to face with a judge and two possible outcomes: a judgment in adult court and possible prison time, or a transfer to the juvenile court and the opportunity to get therapy. It’s up to the judge to decide. An investigation by WYPR and APM Reports found that some judges are using what juvenile justice advocates say are arbitrary and inconsistent reasons to keep teenagers charged with serious crimes in adult court.
Ghost guns ‘not a big issue’? Las Vegas police records say otherwise

Feb 14, 2024 | apmreports.org | Bert Johnson |Chris Haxel |Kate Martin

In June 2021, a 17-year-old pulled a pistol out of his Louis Vuitton shoulder bag and fatally shot a 39-year-old man in the parking lot of a Las Vegas apartment complex. According to court documents, the victim was high on methamphetamine and had been acting erratically before swinging at the teen with a fist. Federal and Nevada state laws prohibit minors from possessing firearms in most cases.
St. Louis police data: Nearly 60% of homicides committed since 2017 are unsolved

Jul 16, 2023 | apmreports.org | Tom Scheck |Jennifer Lu |Rachel Lippmann

Nearly 60% of homicides that occurred in the city of St. Louis since 2017 have gone unsolved, according to data provided by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. And even though the department's clearance rates improved in recent years, more than 750 of the murders which occurred since 2017 remain unsolved. The figures are striking for a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the nation.