Kelly Cohen

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Harbour and Areva workers check a container carrying uranium oxide to make fuel pellets called MOX, before being lifted onto the Pacific Egret cargo in western France in April 2013. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Energy and Environment

Nuclear facility challenged by growing costs and completion delays

Kelly Cohen · May 27, 2014 5:13 pm

A No. 7 New York City subway train arrives in the 5th Avenue-Bryant Park station last year. (AP file)

Security chief for New York’s subway system resigns

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 7:58 pm

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown is applauded by supporters during a news conference in 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago court clerk gives campaign cash to her office’s former internal watchdog

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 7:16 pm

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DC school buses run red lights and speed, investigation finds

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 6:53 pm

Taxpayers paid nearly $600,000 to rehab this three-bedroom, two-bathroom house at 4419 N. Kimball Ave. in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood with amenities like granite countertops and hardwood floors -- and it wound up selling for less than $200,000, an investigation by the Chicago Reporter found. More was spent on this single home than on rehabbing homes in the entire Roseland neighborhood, the Reporter found. (Photo: SpotProperty)

HUD money puts ‘luxury finishes’ on houses while Chicago’s hard-hit neighborhoods suffer

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 1:46 pm

San Diego Police Department patch

San Diego police department missing $1 million in federal funds

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 1:12 pm

Luke Chandler, left, and Whit Dowlen fish along the north bank of the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga in 2005 as the city prepared to open the $120 million waterfront project. (AP/Photo Mark Gilliland)

Chattanooga’s $100m waterfront project sinking into Tennessee River

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 12:56 pm

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Virginia aims to stamp out double-dipping voters

Kelly Cohen · May 24, 2014 10:00 am

Massive fraud in Medicare's prescription drug programs may be going untracked, according to a government watchdog. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Insurer Humana being probed for possible overbilling: Report

Kelly Cohen · May 23, 2014 8:31 pm

The 2020 census may still have a hefty price tag despite efforts by the Commerce Department to cut costs, a new report shows. (AP Image)

Census Bureau struggles to cut costs for the 2020 headcount

Kelly Cohen · May 23, 2014 3:29 pm

Prairie chickens are an endangered species. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Prairie chickens fly from Kansas to Illinois — in state aircraft, at $1,000 a bird

Kelly Cohen · May 22, 2014 4:03 pm

The Missouri Peace Officers Standards and Training agency, or POST, reviews misconduct allegations to see whether police officers should retain their state licenses. (Thinkstock)

Transparency lacking for police misconduct cases in Missouri

Kelly Cohen · May 22, 2014 3:59 pm