Megan Rose
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Judge Finds Sailor Not Guilty in Fire That Destroyed $1.2 Billion Navy Ship
Even though a separate Navy review found that 34 people, including five admirals, contributed to or directly led to the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, Ryan Mays is the only person to have faced a court-martial. → Read More
The Navy Is Withholding Court Records in a High-Profile Ship Fire Case
The U.S. Navy accused a sailor of setting the 2020 fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard, but it refuses to release records in the case as the law requires. → Read More
What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps —
You never planned on raising kids during a pandemic, and there are no easy decisions. ProPublica scoured the latest research and talked to seven infectious disease and public health experts to help think through the issues facing parents. → Read More
Warship Accidents Left Sailors Traumatized. The Navy Struggled to Treat Them. —
Recent wars have forced the U.S. military to acknowledge and treat the psychological wounds caused by trauma. But some sailors who survived 2017’s deadly crashes say the Navy’s efforts to help them sometimes fell short. → Read More
Trump Says U.S. Is Ready for War. Not All His Troops Are So Sure. —
A series of accidents calls the military’s preparedness into question. → Read More
Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines —
Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected. → Read More
The Navy Installed Touch-screen Steering Systems To Save Money. Ten Sailors Paid With Their Lives.
When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of 10 sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster. → Read More
Trump Keeps Talking About the Last Military Standoff With Iran — Here’s What Really Happened —
In 2016, 10 sailors were captured by Iran. Trump is making it a political issue. Our investigation shows that it was a Navy failure, and the problems run deep. → Read More
Investigation of Disasters Sparks Debate Over Navy’s Readiness and Responsibilities —
ProPublica’s examination of the causes behind two fatal collisions in the Pacific has set off an intense conversation among current and former Navy sailors and commanders as well as everyday citizens about the state of the U.S. Navy. → Read More
The Navy’s Disaster in the Pacific —
Broken ships. Poor training. Ignored warnings. Twin tragedies. The world’s most powerful armada in decline. → Read More
Baltimore Judge Tosses Alford Plea, Rebuking Prosecutor —
Demetrius Smith has long maintained he pleaded guilty to a shooting he did not commit. Now, over the prosecutor's objections, his conviction has been set aside. → Read More
Innocent But Still Guilty —
Inmates are sometimes offered freedom in exchange for pleading guilty to a crime they probably didn’t commit. It’s a bad deal. → Read More
Nevada Pardons Wrongfully Convicted Man Featured in Our Story
The pardon clears Fred Steese’s name after state prosecutors had pushed him into an arcane plea deal even though a judge had declared he was innocent. “I’m not a felon anymore,” Steese said. → Read More
Vegas Judge Featured in ProPublica Story Reprimanded for Ethics Violations —
Judge William Kephart, who was repeatedly criticized for misconduct as a prosecutor and put at least one innocent person in prison, has been censured for a lapse on the bench. → Read More
Senator: Someone Needs to Be Fired Over Wasted $65 Million Plane —
Sen. Chuck Grassley tells the Defense secretary “if heads don’t roll nothing changes.” The plane, which never flew a mission in Afghanistan, is part of a pattern of billions in military waste documented by ProPublica in 2015. → Read More
What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. —
A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction. → Read More
The Freedom Plea: How Prosecutors Deny Exonerations by Dangling the Prison Keys —
New evidence pointed to innocence in the cases of these four Baltimore men, yet prosecutors would only let them go if they agreed to controversial plea deals. → Read More
Nevada Passes Modest Measures to Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct
Lobbying by prosecutors and police guts law that would have punished prosecutors who didn’t share evidence with defense. Debate cited case of Fred Steese, subject of ProPublica and Vanity Fair story. → Read More
Vegas Judge Had Long History of Prosecutorial Misconduct
The behavior of Bill Kephart, who led the murder prosecution of Fred Steese, was repeatedly lambasted by the Supreme Court of Nevada. But that didn’t stop him from becoming a judge. This month he was charged with misconduct in that position too. → Read More
Kafka in Vegas
Fred Steese served more than 20 years in prison for the murder of a Vegas showman even though evidence in the prosecution’s files proved he didn’t do it. But when the truth came to light, he was offered a confounding deal known as an Alford plea. If he took it he could go free, but he’d remain a con → Read More