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Trumbull resident Edna Borchetta wants for her 20-year-old daughter Carriella what most parents dream of for their children: the chance to go to college, work and explore new opportunities. But since Carriella lives with intellectual disabilities, she needs extra support to reach her full potential. (Marceles, 10/26)

Products sold as energy drinks, gummies or herbal supplements at gas stations and convenience stores may contain potent opioid-like compounds, putting people at risk of addiction, overdose and death, according to health experts. (Kinsey, 10/26)

Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders chose to let it resume operations. (Bowlin, 10/27)

The issue of food safety has prompted a major political realignment since the start of the second Trump administration, with the right-wing Make America Healthy Again movement forming an uneasy alliance with progressives to rid the nation’s food system of ultra-processed snacks, sweets, lunch meats and other products. Public schools are their first target. (Wolfson, 10/26)

At California Medical Facility, playing a sport helps men practice new ways of thinking and form bonds that remain outside of prison walls. (Frank and Abdullahi, 10/26)

�Թϲ�����: Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted In Redlining And Homes Built On Toxic Waste

In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up elementary school named for famed educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune sits in a 250-acre site once called “Brown’s Dump.” The dump emerged in an era of redlining, systematic racism that divided American cities large and small. From the late 1940s until the mid-1950s, the city operated a landfill here, heaping toxic ash from nearby municipal incinerators. (Clasen-Kelly, Chang, Pierce and Gavino, 10/27)