Reporting on criminal and legal issues affecting the nation's 50th state. Coverage included ongoing federal corruption probe of law enforcement, issues behind a rise in police shootings and a failed domestic violence program.

Part of a six-person investigative reporting team focused on problems and issues in Dallas and Texas including: - 9-1-1 snafus behind the death of a child,- Botched evacuations of nursing homes during Hurricane Harvey that harmed elderly residents,- How the military fails to notify gun dealers of ineligible buyers, resulting in a mass murder in Texas,-And tracking how new money from fracking billionaires swamped a Texas primary season.

Reporter covering criminal justice, courts and regulatory issues in Texas including: - The secret process Texas uses to get its death row drugs, - The haphazard way Texas sheriffs screen for undocumented immigrants, - How a state mental health check system inside the state's jails failed Sandra Bland - And problems with in the state's contracting process.

New Jersey-based government accountability reporter for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio. Reported and recorded stories about the 2013 Bridgegate investigation involving then, Gov. Chris Christie, the roll-out of Obamacare and the economics of the 2014 Super Bowl.

Stories included: -The $7 billion Ponzi scheme trial of R Allen Stanford. -Investigation into how Houston became the center of ambulance Medicare fraud. One of the Chronicle's 2011 Pulitzer entries. -Collaborative project with Texas Tribune looking at foster child abuse within residential treatment centers, one of the Chronicle’s 2010 Pulitzer entries.-A look into five children’s deaths and how they occurred despite CPS intervention.-The bureaucratic missteps behind a daycare fire that killed four children and the 22-year-old operator’s flight to Nigeria.-Racial, sexual discrimination within the Houston Fire Department.-Texas Child Protective Services’ removal of 435 children from a West Texas polygamist sect. -The regulatory lapses in the Texas-to-Mexico motor coach industry.-How mentally disabled men were sent from Texas as boys and young adults in the 1970s to serve as workers in an Iowa meat processing plant. Also: -Part of Chronicle’s team coverage of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Broke several stories about the negligence of a bus company that resulted in the deaths of 23 elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees. -The Chronicle’s 2009 Investigative Reporter of the Year.

Created short-term investigative projects. Focused on city and state government, particularly Texas Child Protective Services. Broke key stories detailing how children in CPS custody die, how the agency fails to keep track of children in their care. Profiled the bureaucratic failings that allowed a jobless Houston woman to adopt seven children and then abandon them in Nigeria.Profiled the deplorable history of a Dallas day care center after a child died in the facility’s van. Proved a Dallas bus company at the center of a church camp crash was operating illegally. Member of the DMN team sent to New York City to cover the 9/11 attacks and then to Washington, D.C. to report on the resulting Transportation Security Act.Completed FAA crash investigator training in Oklahoma City. Covered the Andrea Yates murder trial in Houston and murder trials for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.

-Wrote and edited stories of regional interest for the nation's oldest news gathering organization.-Member of the AP teams sent to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas and the Luby's Restaurant shooting in Killeen, Texas. -Directed coverage of several high-profile criminal and civil trials.-Lead reporter for the AP’s coverage of the trials of the three men responsible for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.-Wrote extensively about Texas criminal justice system including Death Row.