APM Reports

08/17/2026

Companies linked to Sekou Dukuly received $36 million in taxpayer money over the past decade to care for disabled adults in Minnesota group homes — despite multiple residents dying and repeated findings of neglect. Dukuly has also misrepresented his finances in Minnesota family courts, and he’s caught up in a lawsuit concerning a business venture overseas. But the state kept sending payments to the group home companies even after he took a job in the Liberian government, more than 5,000 miles away.

Companies linked to Sekou Dukuly received $36 million in taxpayer money over the past decade to care for disabled adults in Minnesota group homes — despite multiple residents dying and repeated findings of neglect. Dukuly has also misrepresented his finances in Minnesota family courts, and he’s ...

07/08/2026

Utah officials are shutting down Provo Canyon School’s girls program — one of the state’s most notorious teen treatment programs, which has been plagued by abuse allegations.

State regulators say the facility failed to protect clients from harm, allowed neglect and used unnecessary restraints. The program can appeal.

04/27/2026

At least 50 Minnesota group home clients have died since late 2022 under circumstances serious enough to trigger a state maltreatment investigation. But many penalties amounted to fines of $5,000 or less, and most homes kept their licenses. When Ryan Riggs died in the backyard of his group home, the state’s initial fine was just $1,000.

At least 50 Minnesota group home clients have died since late 2022 under circumstances serious enough to trigger a state maltreatment investigation. But many penalties amounted to fines of $5,000 or less, and most homes kept their licenses. When Ryan Riggs died in the backyard of his group home, the...

04/08/2026

A half-century ago, the Indigenous Tsimshian village of Metlakatla, in Southeast Alaska, preserved its reservation when others in Alaska were terminated. Today, the reserve sustains a thriving fishing industry — and the tribe is fighting in court to expand its territory.

03/25/2026

Taxpayer-funded group homes help thousands of Minnesotans with physical or mental disabilities live as independently as possible.

But the industry’s rapid growth in the Twin Cities’ northwestern suburbs has led to problems that leave vulnerable people in danger and local governments struggling with the consequences.

Nowhere is that clearer than in Brooklyn Park, the state’s group home capital.

Taxpayer-funded group homes help thousands of Minnesotans with physical or mental disabilities live as independently as possible. But the industry’s rapid growth in the Twin Cities’ northwestern suburbs has led to problems that leave vulnerable people in danger and local governments struggling w...

02/04/2026

Story by Cait Kelley: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2026/01/17/ice-agents-didnt-use-cpr-after-jonathan-ross-shot-renee-macklin-good-in-minneapolis

Luke and Brent Ganger, whose sister Renee Macklin Good was killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis last month, spoke to members of Congress Tuesday about their sister’s life and their “disbelief, distress and desperation for change” following her death.

“The completely surreal scenes taking place on the streets of Minneapolis are beyond explanation,” Luke Ganger said. “This is not just a bad day or a rough week or isolated incidents. These encounters with federal agents are changing the community and changing many lives, including ours, forever.”

An analysis of verified bystander videos, 911 calls, fire department records and dispatch logs conducted by MPR News and APM Reports raises questions about whether federal agents did enough to try to save Macklin Good after ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot her.

After what appeared to be a brief medical assessment, ICE agents chose not to perform CPR and left Macklin Good bleeding and alone in the car for almost three minutes. They also turned away a man identifying himself as a physician who offered to help. A fire department report showed Macklin Good still had a pulse more than seven minutes after she was shot.

Doctors and paramedics in Minnesota told MPR News that ICE agents didn’t follow appropriate medical protocols and Macklin Good deserved better care.

08/29/2025

The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administration agreed to finish the research only after it was sued.

08/27/2025

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is one of the few federal education initiatives that the Trump Administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff responsible for keeping the series of tests up to date. And the board overseeing the assessment has elimin...

08/26/2025

08/26/2025

In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals that federally mandated testing is not designed to catch.

Into that regulatory void has stepped Andrew Whelton, an engineering professor at Purdue University who has made it his personal mission to help water utilities recover after devastating fires.

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In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals which federally mandated testing is not designed to catch. Into that regulatory void has stepped Andrew Whelton, an engineering professor at Purdue....