By JENNIFER L. GIVENS, DEIRDRE M. ENRIGHT and SHAWN ARMBRUST on February 27, 2021 It has been more than a year since Jason Nixon’s wife, Kate, was killed in the mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building. The Virginia Beach police concluded their...
By Tyrone Carter on September 26, 2020 We all know their names by now: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake. They are among the ranks of countless Black victims of violence, mostly at the hands of law enforcement, who have sparked widespread protests, a...
By Sandra Chapman on September 2, 2020 INDIANAPOLIS — A new state law that’s supposed to compensate the wrongly convicted has yet to pay out any money and is not helping anyone. 13 Investigates looks into why exonerees are going without money and...
By Eddie Kadhim on June 17, 2020 Birthdays, holidays, funerals— how do you pay someone back for stealing memories? On Wednesday night, the state of Maryland took a step in doing that for two brothers who were wrongfully convicted of murder in Baltimore....
By Ovetta Wiggins on June 17, 2020 Eric Simmons and Kenneth “JR” McPherson, two brothers who spent 24 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit, were awarded nearly $2 million each by the state of Maryland on Wednesday, becoming the ninth and 10th...
