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New Orleans school won’t be built atop a toxic dump — for now
A small alumni group from the floundering Walter L. Cohen High School has beaten back a proposal to relocate to a former landfill.
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As residents leave this Detroit street, it sprouts art
The Heidelberg Project is art made of abandoned houses. It has attracted a steady stream of pilgrims -- and now, it seems, arsonists as well.
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The U.S. cities with the worst climate change-related flooding
Rising sea levels have kicked up flood days by as much as 900 percent along parts of the East Coast.
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New Jersey reshuffles Sandy relief dollars, admits to numerous mistakes
The announcement follows an investigation by a scrappy local news site that found that the state’s scorecards for distributing relief money were riddled with errors.
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Mother jailed for letting her daughter run free — at the playground
Debra Harrell let her 9-year-old daughter play unsupervised in an North Augusta, S.C., park. Harrell was arrested and her daughter is in the custody of the state.
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LeBron James heads back to Ohio, and perhaps his greatest challenge yet
Ohio's Rust Belt cities are plagued with poverty and pollution. James has pledged to help the youth there, but this is no slam dunk.
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Billions of oil dollars will buy you the largest mall in the world
World's largest indoor amusement park included.
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When storms hit, scrappy local reporters rush to the rescue
Small news websites are filling in some of the void left by shrinking city newspapers and TV news coverage. They're proving their worth in times of disaster.
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The Civil Rights Act at 50: Protecting people of color and the environment, too
The law has been particularly effective at ensuring access to public transportation for communities of color. Fitting -- it was born on a bus.
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Neighbors transform abandoned mall into a giant aquarium
Reduce. Reuse. Fill with fish.
