Dan Bauman and Elizabeth Mohr Saint Paul Pioneer Press 🔗 ‘Open secret’ of child brides roils Twin Cities Hmong community BY THE NUMBERS 20% 1 in 5 visas issued by the U.S. to Laos nationals were K-1 visas, or fiancee visas, in 2014. That proportion is the largest of any country; Somalia was second. 35%
Dan Bauman and Mara H. Gottfried The Saint Paul Pioneer Press 🔗 St. Paul’s Breaking Free’s founder responds to complaints A complaint alleging a St. Paul nonprofit, Breaking Free, has misused public funding and not properly served victims led the Minnesota attorney general’s office to ask a dozen agencies to look into the organization. Breaking
Dan Bauman and Kelly Field The Chronicle of Higher Education 🔗 I Called 4 Companies for Advice on My Student Debt. This Is What I Learned. 🔗 A Glimpse at the Connections Among 7 Debt-Relief Companies 🔗 Promises of Debt Relief Meet Privacy Concerns When Rick Cibelli heard a radio ad last year promising to
Dan Bauman The Journal at Webster University 🏆Awards and recognition for this story Honorable Mention — Investigative Reporting — Missouri College Media Association 2012 Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of deceased former dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, was captured Nov. 19 in the southwestern desert of Libya, Libya’s transitional government said. Before his detainment by Libyan
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