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Photos: [Left] Christoph Bangert/ LaIF/Redux; [Right] TEPCO RADIATION AND RUIN: Evacuees were checked for radiation…

Frank Bill usually traffics in fiction that hits with the revelatory power of fact—the stories of his debut book, Crimes in Southern Indiana, have the power of bristling frontline reports on the havoc methamphetamines have wreaked on the American heartland. But here Frank steps out from behind his fiction to tell us about a time in southern Indiana when meth was but an exotic treat that came in the mail to only the most enterprising drug dealers. The intervening years would bring all variety of twisted darkness to Corydon, Indiana, but as Frank makes clear here, even in that more innocent time, those looking for trouble—and even those running away from it—had a pretty good chance of finding it.

Doctors: Paperwork, punishment thwart workers, protect brass Physicians, psychologists and other former employees were harshly critical of a state center for the developmentally…

Local car exhaust is one reason why New York officials have had to declare several ozone alert days this year. But out-of-state smokestacks are also a major contributor to air problems in…

BY MARK J. KONKOL AND FRANK MAIN Staff Reporters …