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Documentary Short: Blind Spot
A deep look into the bureaucratic negligence that has allowed drivers with menacing traffic records to keep their licenses. ( Produced by Caitlin Healy, Brendan McCarthy & Anush Elbakyan. Shot & Edited by Caitlin Healy )

Recent investigations

UMass Dartmouth hid sexual misconduct allegations against former officer, report finds
The town of Blackstone's report found that UMass Dartmouth police “failed to conduct a minimally competent investigation” into sexual assault allegations against one of their campus officers before he came to work for the Blackstone police.

State auditor launches probe of convention center authority as Black leaders call for probe of racial discrimination claims
The authority said it will conduct its own investigation, promising “corrective action” if problems are found.

Allegedly beaten and abused in an Oxford ‘house of horrors,’ former foster children file suit against state social workers

The former foster children are suing the Blouins, Susan Blouin’s sometime boyfriend, DCF, and 17 current and former state social workers, supervisors, and investigators, alleging they knew or should have known that the children were in danger.

Massachusetts Convention Center Authority discriminates against Black employees, vendors, and convention guests, employees charge

Four Black employees recently filed formal complaints with the state attorney general charging racial discrimination in hiring, promotion, and working conditions at the agency that runs the state's convention centers.

A high-stakes divorce battle over control of iconic Boston real estate — and a really expensive collection of duck decoys

The divorce was going smoothly, as divorces go, but then came the revelations about the duck decoys.

More Globe investigations

Revelations that Annie Dookhan may not have been ‘sole bad actor’ in drug lab scandal prompts calls for new trials

Newly released records from a state investigation into the drug lab scandal identified at least four other lab employees who may have falsified tests or helped cover it up.

Healey administration begins training police in how to inspect gun dealers amid concern laws aren’t being enforced

The training comes after the Globe found hundreds of dealers hadn’t had a police inspection in years.

Annie Dookhan took the blame for the state drug lab scandal, but she wasn’t the ‘sole bad actor,’ new documents show

Inspector General Glenn Cunha referred at least four state employees aside from Annie Dookhan for potential criminal prosecution in the state drug lab scandal, new records show, but no charges were brought.

See the names and photos of known Massachusetts missing persons cases

There are 180 Massachusetts missing persons cases in a detailed — but incomplete — database dating back to 1957.

How the missing become the uncounted: Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

It isn’t that missing person cases fall through cracks in the system; it’s that there’s no system at all. The pursuit of these cases hinges almost entirely on the discretion — and commitment level — of local police departments.

Dozens of ATF inspectors descend on gun vendors at Littleton mill following dealer’s arrest

The 83 vendors in the building all face inspection in coming days.

Spotlight

How Brigham Health helped create a Chinese hospital for elites — and almost nobody came

In a deal worth millions with Chinese developer Evergrande, a Harvard teaching hospital risked its reputation on what would become a near-empty shell.

The taking of Cell 15

A look at secrecy, assaults, and accountability inside Massachusetts’ maximum-security prison.

Failure of command: The inside story of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home outbreak

Governor Charlie Baker and a top deputy played key roles in events leading up to the devastating COVID-19 outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, but publicly faulted others. A Globe investigation examines the decisions that left the home all but leaderless when the coronavirus stormed in.

Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level

Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?

Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston’s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation’s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis — a very slow moving crisis — that puts our region’s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.

Inside the secret courts of Massachusetts

The Spotlight Team delves into the darkest corner of the Massachusetts criminal justice system, where the quality of justice can depend on where you live and who you know.

Gladiator

How can a Super Bowl starting lineman become a convicted murderer in only a few years? In a new investigation, The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team looks hard at the crisis facing football through the lens of Aaron Hernandez's life and terrible crimes.

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.

In a series that can only scratch the surface of this complex topic, we tried to answer a question so critical to the city's identity and future: Does Boston still deserve its reputation as a place unwelcoming to Black people? If so, why — and how — can the situation be improved?

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