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Special Report: Safety, emissions tests recorded over 3 years expose flaws in state-mandated program.

A six-day series on the plight of Carolinas workers who put America's most popular meat on the table.

Last year, Mecklenburg Chief District Judge Lisa Bell had a surveillance camera installed outside her house. Her colleague, Judge Becky Tin, purchased the first gun she's ever owned.

A couple learn their unborn baby won't survive a terrible birth defect. What would they do?

Problems at Mecklenburg Open Door, a now-defunct mental health contractor, have led to the indictment of the agency’s former chief executive, the resignation of the county’s mental health director and a flurry of new questions about county management.

Southern Chase was a new kind of subdivision for Beazer, an experiment in selling low-cost homes to low-income families. The strategy was a financial success for Beazer. But the neighborhood fell apart.

Internal e-mails reveal new allegations of misspending at the Mecklenburg Department of Social Services.

Mecklenburg's impoverished had few, if any, rights as he oversaw one of the most aggressive efforts to sterilize certain populations.

This is Elizabeth Woods' story -- of love and war, heartbreak and healing. The full series, with videos and photos.

An investigation into the State Bureau of Investigation by the (Raleigh) News & Observer.