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Knox County

Ex-Knox County sheriff among 11 indicted over $300,000 in narcotics-card personal buys

Obion County

Obion County nursing home managers got $561,000 unearned pay; board didn't check payroll

St. Louis Public Schools

St. Louis schools sold four buildings in violation of state law, auditor finds

Grant County

Grant County commissioner approved county payments to his own sewer firm, probe says

Neosho

Neosho clerk was sole signer on the village bank account; she's accused of taking $280,000

Prescott School District

Prescott schools chief made $34,037 in non-school buys like golf gear, repaid $1,229

Conway School District

Conway school board voted 5-2 not to call in prosecutors over maintenance theft claims

Chicot County

Chicot County water boards skipped required audits as $206,616 went to their bookkeeper

North Dakota

ND health agency paid $1.4 million for care checks that never happened, audit found

District of Columbia

DC Auditor: CFO's office made 301 reserve fund payouts without legal authority

Connecticut

CT trooper's ramming was unjustified deadly force, inspector general found, but no charges

Hawaii

Hawaii pays $800,000 after a jail intern cleared a detainee who then hanged himself

Carter County

Carter County water board signed blank checks as manager paid himself $98K, state finds

Yankton County

Ex-Yankton chief deputy kept his badge after a leak, now faces evidence-forgery charges

Brookings County

Brookings sheriff's deputies bought $29,000 of retail gas at a successor's donor's station

Adams County

Adams County's treasurer refused to resign after a probe found he likely harassed staff

Madhya Pradesh

Sand miners crushed two forest guards in India's Chambal sanctuary as states looked away

Iran

Iran expelled 1.5 million Afghans in 2025, even some with valid papers, UN experts say

Ghana

Ghana's parliament voted to jail people for promoting LGBTQ rights or not reporting them

Goalpara

Assam officials razed Muslim families' homes on their own land after a 24-hour notice

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia moved under half the disabled people a ruling ordered out of institutions

Sweden

Sweden's welfare AI flagged migrants as fraud suspects; privacy watchdog closed the case

Netherlands

Dutch tax office profiled parents by nationality; 4,350 still wait for damages years later

Denmark

Denmark stands by law evicting 'non-Western' tenants after EU court flags discrimination

Mexico

Mexico's labour inspectors logged one child-labour violation in 142,951 inspections

Greece

Greece held 36 lone migrant children in police cells; Europe's court found it inhuman

Crans-Montana

Crans-Montana skipped five years of fire checks at the bar where 40 people burned to death

Georgia

Georgia's election officials tossed ballot-secrecy complaints from 2,263 polling stations

Indonesia

Indonesia's election chiefs flew private jets 59 times on a Rp90bn budget, got a warning

Peru

Nearly 800 abuse cases against Awajún girls, many by teachers, remain unpunished in Peru

Democratic Republic of the Congo

UN peacekeepers left 500+ paternity claims unresolved as their home countries ignored them

South Africa

South Africa's prosecutors lost pastor Omotoso's rape trial; none disciplined a year on

Canada

Canada let at least 268 sexual assault cases be thrown out over court delays

New Zealand

NZ Police prosecuted the woman who accused its deputy chief instead of investigating him

United Kingdom

British Army promoted the soldier who sexually assaulted Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19

London

Met Police had 21 abuse reports on Al Fayed and he was never charged; 5 officers probed

Brittany

French medical council voted 18-0 to let a convicted surgeon work; he abused 299 patients

Uganda

Uganda's army chief boasted of using an activist as a 'punching bag'; no probe followed

United Kingdom

Home Office ignored Brook House abuse inquiry's key fix, and a court said it was free to

Tasmania

Tasmania locked detained kids in their rooms 74 times each in a month over staff shortages

Ireland

Irish care home sent regulator 40 abuse alerts before TV caught residents' mistreatment

United Kingdom

G4S youth jail used pain-inducing holds on children and kept running after failing twice

Uttar Pradesh

18 newborns died in a Jhansi ward with extinguishers expired since 2020; principal moved

Ireland

Irish health service let a Kerry child mental-health clinic put 209 kids at risk

Nottingham

31 Nottingham NHS bosses refused to answer for 162 mothers' and babies' deaths

Mexico

Pemex staff hid a Gulf pipeline leak for weeks as Mexico's president denied it was Pemex

Peru

Peru's Congress extended the miners' registry that shields illegal gold for a fifth time

Poland

Poland kept allowing salty mine waste into the Oder after a mass fish kill, the EU says

Italy

Italy left toxic waste fires near Naples unchecked for decades, Europe's rights court said

Alberta

Alberta withdrew 8 of 9 charges over Imperial's 5.2M-litre oilsands spill; fine was $2,000

New Zealand

NZ labour inspectors got 2,208 migrant-exploitation complaints in 2025, closed 180 cases

United Kingdom

UK ministers declined to make farms pay migrant pickers' visa costs, leaving them in debt

China

China sent 212 trafficked North Korean women home, some back to the men who bought them

Jeongeup

Korean city kept 60 Filipino farmworkers' passports for months 'to stop them leaving'

Cambodia

Cambodia's Senate keeps 2 US-sanctioned scam-hub senators; one topped its palace donors

Libya

Libya lets state-linked traffickers ransom and sell migrants with impunity, UN finds

City of Pleasantville

Pleasantville paid its departing business administrator $165,000, and she keeps half

City of Asbury Park

Asbury Park charter school hired its director's husband, mother and kids, watchdog found

New Castle County

New Castle County officer who fatally shot a man is accused of beating a woman in a cell

Delaware

Judge says pepper-sprayed Delaware inmates credibly described pain with no decontamination

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