An eight-month McClatchy Newspapers investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.

The series is running in The Dispatch from June 15 through June 19.

The financially lethal cocktail of risky high-rate mortgages and naive borrowers has taken a toll in many neighborhoods across central Ohio. A wave of foreclosures during recent years has pushed property values downward for the first time in decades, a Dispatch analysis found.

To measure the damage and the looming challenges, The Dispatch has investigated the effects of the mortgage meltdown.

They bonded over things that might seem foreign to people who've never dealt with cancer: "chemo brain," the forgetfulness resulting from treatment, and "nun cancer," referring to people who get the disease even though they have no apparent risk factors.

But for a group of cancer survivors, their experiences created an easy camaraderie and new friendships during a three-hour ride in the Komen Columbus Race for the Cure yesterday.

The Dispatch takes an in-depth look at the long-term effects of lead paint in central Ohio, 30 years after the government banned the product.

In an occasional series of reports, The Dispatch chronicles the deployment to Kuwait of Lakeya Hodge of Columbus. She's among 1,600 Ohio soldiers mobilized in the Ohio National Guard's largest single overseas deployment since World War II.

The Ohio Lottery collects more than $2 billion a year from people willing to take their chances on long odds, and the state hopes to make millions more this year with the addition of a Keno game.

A yearlong review finds deep flaws with Ohio's system for testing DNA to uncover wrongful convictions. Police and courts regularly destroy evidence. Prosecutors, benefiting from a flawed law, routinely oppose DNA testing. Judges dismiss inmate requests
without a reason, as required by law.

Ohio's cities, as we have historically known them, are dead. Forget the past. Except for Columbus, Ohio's big cities have endured vast population and job losses.

City leaders realize the glory days are not coming back. They are working on strategies to reinvent, transform or do an extreme makeover of their towns in order to compete in the new global economy.

The Dispatch takes a look at the issues, through the eyes of those living in those cities.

To track the global surge in fake goods, The Dispatch sent a reporter and photographer to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand this summer for a rare look inside the counterfeit trade. Knockoff goods made in Asia easily find their way to central Ohio shops as well as purse parties and Internet auctions.

Riley Potter weighed slightly more than a pound when he was born on May 5, about three months early.

After emergency delivery at Doctors Hospital, Riley was moved to Nationwide Children's Hospital for intensive care.

Soon after, his parents, Beth Potter and John "J.T." Henry, agreed to share their experience. Riley is among almost 19,000 babies who are born prematurely in Ohio each year.

During the past 10 months, The Dispatch has fought to obtain records that detail how teachers across Ohio have been disciplined since 2000.

Using those records and other information, reporters built a first-of-its-kind database to learn who has been punished, the reasons for their discipline and underlying trends.

Two juvenile inmates had spent four months straight in solitary confinement - despite a national standard encouraging a maximum punishment of five days. Assaults in the juvenile prisons became increasingly common and yet some serious ones went unreported. Bureaucratic foul-ups and insufficient treatment programs have led to longer prison stays, costing taxpayers unnecessarily and allowing some young inmates to be released without adequate treatment.

After 24 years in America, a Columbus woman faces possible deportation to her native Liberia. As the case of Bernice Bryant shows, complex immigration laws can cause confusion and heartache.

Nearly one year after she was shot on a "ghost hunting" expedition in Worthington, Rachel Barezinsky is still on the mend. She has had two operations to correct damage from a bullet that crossed both sides of her brain.

For months, reporter Encarnacion Pyle and photographer Shari Lewis have kept up with Rachel. Their work documents her struggles, her strong spirit and the prospects for her future, and how the shooting has affected everyone around her.

Ohio farmers who have made millions in business or real estate also have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm-related aid from federal taxpayers.

» Database: Search for Ohioans who received federal subsidies

Exactly a decade ago, the Ohio Supreme Court issued the first of four rulings that the state school-funding system was unconstitutional. This 8-part series looks at their lingering effects in words, pictures and video.

The safety of thousands of Ohio schoolchildren has been entrusted to more than 150 bus drivers with histories of drunken driving or drug abuse, a Dispatch investigation found.

Our increasing need for power is good news for Ohio coal. But will more mining mean new environmental problems? A Dispatch investigation found that state laws and programs designed to safeguard the land and water are riddled with problems.

When investigators unlocked the doors to the Enron boardroom, they discovered secrets, lots of secrets.

Directors received $350,000 a year to attend a handful of meetings. Half collected thousands more as highly paid consultants to the giant energy trader.

Alcohol possession and consumption accounted for nearly three-fourths of the problems at Big Ten football games in 2005, a Dispatch analysis of university police department reports found. Alcohol topped the list of reasons for ejection.

» VIDEO: Fan Behavior at the 2002 OSU/Michigan game

» OSU coach and player PSAs

» Scoreboard spots promoting good fan behavior

» Photo gallery of fans from Ohio Stadium and Michigan Stadium

Audrey Luthringer's life changed in July 2003, when doctors discovered why her back had been hurting for a year: a malignant tumor on her spine. In this series, Audrey and her partner, Lee Hopkins, provide a close, personal look at how cancer affects the lives of people every day.

» Audio slide show presentation

» Post your reflections about the series and other cancer experiences here

The boy's chin rests on his thumb, his head tilted to the right, cocksure.

He has his father's nose, the nose of the man sitting next to him, the man whose restaurant he robbed.

The kid with the mop of dishwater-blond hair pleads guilty to grand theft and breaking and entering.

» Part II: Coming home