Brain-Damaged Man Wins New Trial In Two-Decades-Old Killing
Richard Lapointe confessed in 1989 that he stabbed, raped and killed his wife's 88-year-old grandmother two years earlier. But in the 23 years since, experts in criminal justice have come to better...
View ArticleSpinal Surgery Company To Give Tissue Proceeds To Charity
When a California company developed a product to be used in spinal fusion surgeries, the firm's president said he knew it faced a new "ethical dilemma," even noting a recent NPR news investigation...
View ArticleDismissed Case Raises Questions On Shaken Baby Diagnosis
When San Francisco prosecutors dismissed charges against Kristian Aspelin in early December, it became just the latest case to raise questions about how shaken baby syndrome is diagnosed. Aspelin, who...
View ArticleWhy A Young Man Died In A Nursing Home, A State Away From His Mom
Zach Sayne was 25 when he died earlier this month at the place that had been his home for 15 years — a children's nursing home in Alabama.But that was too far away, 200 miles too far, for his mother in...
View ArticleKoop Turned Surgeon General's Office Into Mighty Education Platform
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: C. Everett Koop was the most outspoken and some would argue the most influential of all U.S. surgeon generals. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The correct plural form of the...
View ArticleLaw Targets Sexual Violence On College Campuses
When President Obama signs an updated version of the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday afternoon, the law will include new requirements for how colleges and universities handle allegations of...
View ArticleJustice In The Segregated South: A New Look At An Old Killing
This story contains language that some may find offensive.In the segregated South in 1965, John Queen was about as insignificant as a man could be. He was black, elderly and paralyzed. His legs had...
View ArticleTurning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases
Six years ago, the FBI took on a challenge: To review what it called cold-case killings from the civil rights era. The investigation into 112 cases from the 1950s and 1960s is winding down, and civil...
View ArticleAmid Dropping Test Scores, Teen Writers' Creativity Soars
NPR correspondent Joseph Shapiro and his daughter Eva spent the weekend at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Eva, 15, won the "Best in Grade" award, one of two for ninth-grade writers, for a...
View ArticleMastermind Of 'Body Stealing' Scheme Dies
Dr. Michael Mastromarino died Sunday after battling liver and bone cancer. He was 49.Mastromarino pleaded guilty to "body stealing." In 2008, he was sentenced to up to 58 years in prison.But he...
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