John Dougherty's latest investigative report on extreme Mormon sects focuses on the bizarre grip the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has maintained on the local school district, which diverts federal and state funds for the private use of its members and provides a highly dubious education to its students -- whose parents often don't believe in evolution, dinosaurs, or that America ever really put a man on the moon.

Last year, a week after Valentine's Day, Rick Rojas was visiting his father's grave when he met a woman who demanded to know who had left balloons and roses on her husband's grave. Rojas said his sister, Patricia Flores, had placed them on their father's grave. The woman insisted that her husband was buried there. "She was adamant that it was him," Rojas says. Their receipts and records showed that they had bought the same plot, Rojas says. In "Dead Wrong," Houston Press staff writer Wendy Grossman walks the lanes at Hollywood Cemetery where relatives say management sells the same plot over and over, stacks graves and buries people where they don't belong.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is being targeted for billions in cuts. Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson looks at the case of Sgt. Joe Hooper, who won a Medal of Honor for valor in Vietnam, yet came home with a serious alcohol problem and died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 40. "He was a casualty of war, and you can expect more of the same after Iraq," David Willson, a retired Green River Community College librarian, editor of Vietnam War Generation Journal, and a Vietnam vet who worked with Hooper on a collection of war literature, tells Anderson. "Look at the history — this is a country made by war on the backs of vets who have never, ever been treated as promised."

"The Nanny Diaries" was a satirical look into the Upper West Side of Manhattan. There’s nothing funny about Rosa Coronado’s life. Carol Mithers tells Rosa's story, from a small village in Guatemala to a mansion in 90210, and how she has managed to keep going, day after day, through constant pressures on and off the job — from a family back home; a troubled, dependent mother; an abusive husband; a needy son; and bosses who seem to feel that she disappears when she leaves their houses at the end of the day.

"Blindness. Deafness. Amnesia. Paralysis. Vomiting. Hallucinations. Impotence. Stuttering. Uncontrollable twitching. Inability to taste, smell, or urinate. Funny walks. These are just some of the crushing psychosomatic symptoms that have afflicted soldiers during the era of modern warfare, from the trenches of World War I to the Kuwait desert in 1991," Joy Press writes in The Village Voice. What will be the psychological fallout of this war?