for a heart-tugging, all-formats package about how businesses across Providence blink their lights off and on each night to say "goodnight" to the gravely ill patients at Hasbro Children's Hospital. http://bit.ly/2dynhX4
for capturing video and photos on his phone of an anti-government protest that evolved into a deadly stampede. http://apne.ws/2dONKOk
for an exclusive story saying Maryland's prison system would change procedures for notifying victims about inmate deaths. http://bit.ly/2dn6DKa
for information obtained through records requests that allowed him to report exclusively on what happened inside the home of New York-New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami during a family dispute in 2014. http://abcn.ws/2dymw09
for being the first to report, in the wake of the Hoboken commuter crash, that New Jersey Transit trains had been involved in more than 150 accidents causing at least $4.8 million in damage since 2011 http://abcn.ws/2dVQXNl
As Chicago’s homicide rate has surged throughout the year, the police department’s tally of the previous month’s body count has taken on an air of the routine. Even as the city’s murder rate has passed new milestones, the figures have provided little more than a headline. And little insight into the causes and victims of the city’s violence.
Chicago reporter Don Babwin set out to shed light on that violence in the wake of the announcement that August was the deadliest month in the city in two decades.
for fast, thorough reporting on the background of Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, the lone person killed in the New Jersey Transit station crash ... http://bit.ly/2dBXeO7 http://bit.ly/2e6vWCb
The down-at-the-heels industrial city of East Chicago, Indiana, made headlines around the world in August after the mayor ordered 1,000 people to get out of a 40-year-old public-housing complex because of lead contamination.
Many residents and observers expressed surprise: How could such a problem go overlooked for so many decades?
The Chicago bureau’s Sara Burnett and Jason Keyser teamed up for several weeks of intensive document and street reporting. What they found was as disturbing as the original news: The hazard shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone – because the housing complex had been built on the former site of a lead-products factory.
for breaking the news that more than 850 immigrants were granted citizenship despite a pending deportation order. http://read.bi/2dre8CQ
for being the first to publish the entire text of the U.S.-Russian ceasefire deal for Syria. http://bit.ly/2cCcY66
for combining an exhaustive document dive with gum-shoe work to tell the story behind the sudden order by the mayor of East Chicago, Indiana, to remove more than 1,000 residents from their housing project because of lead contamination blamed on years of neglect. http://trib.in/2d6Jpeu
for beating a highly competitive field to break the news that the Chicago Police Department would hire more than 500 new officers ... http://bit.ly/2dtdGnf
for a story pointing out that the New England Patriots would be one of the last NFL teams to start a black quarterback when Jacoby Brissett played on Sept. 22. http://bit.ly/2dkHQnL
for using public records to show that California lawmakers have crafted rules allowing themselves to be compensated for living expenses regardless of whether they even show up to work. http://bit.ly/2deCH42
for their video that blended Crutsinger’s recollections and perspective from covering four leaders of the Federal Reserve with AP's archival footage and photos. http://bit.ly/2ddoumX
for his report showing that several of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains are seeing huge drops in enrollment amid new regulation and government pressure. http://apne.ws/2d9Uo2Q
for her APNewsBreak detailing how money intended to make sure fish was safe to eat following the BP oil spill instead went to things like iPads, cameras and now-missing fishing equipment. http://apne.ws/2dlSaAR
for being first with a named source confirming that Angelina Jolie Pitt had filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. http://bit.ly/2d9TKlQ
for his report showing a growing backlash in the U.S. over the cost of providing life-saving drugs ... http://apne.ws/2d4shmp
for breaking the news that FIFA has abolished its anti-racism task force ... http://bit.ly/2dkNqGw