MITCH WEISS

National Investigative reporter

Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author who’s part of the AP’s National Investigative team. He has launched projects exposing police misconduct, government corruption, war crimes, clerical sexual abuse and a politically connected cult with thousands of followers.

Tennessee family’s lawsuit says video long kept from them shows police force, not drugs, killed son

A Tennessee mother whose son was having a seizure in his apartment says in a new lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected him to “inhumane acts of violence.”

Takeaways: AP investigation reveals Black people bear disproportionate impact of police force

The Associated Press found that Black people make up a disproportionate number of those who died after being restrained, beaten or shocked with stun guns by police officers over a decade.

He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead

Records show Jameek Lowery, a 27-year-old Black man from Paterson, New Jersey, died two days after he was restrained and repeatedly punched by officers.

For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that

The frantic 911 call described a 23-year-old man suffering a seizure, foaming and shaking. When medics and police arrived, the tiny apartment in Bristol, Tennessee, became a chaotic scene.

Minister at secretive N Carolina church sentenced for fraud

A minister at a secretive North Carolina church has been sentenced to 34 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $466,000 in restitution for his role in an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by church leaders.

Minister at secretive N Carolina church sentenced for fraud

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A minster at a secretive church in rural North Carolina has been sentenced to 34 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $466,000 in restitution for his role in an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by church leaders.

Head of secretive North Carolina sect named in fraud scam

The leader of a secretive North Carolina church has been named in federal court records as someone who “promoted” an unemployment fraud scheme involving her congregants.

2 members of secretive NC sect charged with fraud conspiracy

Two members of a secretive church in North Carolina have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in an alleged unemployment benefits scheme.

Fraud charges filed against 2 members of secretive sect

A father and son who belong to a secretive evangelical church in North Carolina are facing criminal charges in an unemployment benefits scheme that former congregants have said was part of a plan to keep money flowing into the church.

State to take over child welfare office after AP story

North Carolina officials will take over a county child welfare agency that illegally removed potentially hundreds of kids from their homes.

N Carolina to take over child welfare office after AP story

North Carolina officials will take over a county child welfare agency that illegally removed potentially hundreds of kids from their homes.

AP, Charlotte Observer seek access in church beating case

The Associated Press and The Charlotte Observer have filed legal motions to gain access to documents and lift a gag order in the case of a North Carolina minister accused of orchestrating the beating of a congregant to expel his “homosexual demons.”

‘Am I going to die?’ Gay man testifies at church trial

A North Carolina man has testified that he thought he was “going to die” when members of his evangelical church beat and choked him for two hours to expel his “homosexual demons.”

Gorsuch’s environment record not easy to define

Many conservation groups say President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is too conservative and too much like the late Justice Antonin Scalia to be considered a friend of the environment.

AP: Gorsuch case review shows he’s no crusader on abortion

President Donald Trump promised to appoint a crusading anti-abortion Supreme Court justice, but little Neil Gorsuch has written shows he’d embrace such a label.

3rd night of Charlotte protests stays largely peaceful

Protesters massed on Charlotte’s streets for a third night Thursday in the latest sign of mounting pressure for police to release video that could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting of a black man.

Dallas sniper was loner; Army sent him home from Afghanistan

The Dallas sniper had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media.

Dallas police killer was loner, followed black militants

The man who killed five Dallas police officers was described as a loner, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and a follower of black militant groups on social media.

Records: Orlando gunman talked about violence in 3rd grade

School records show that the Florida nightclub shooter talked frequently about violence as early as the third grade.

Details emerge about nightclub shooter’s wife

The wife of the man whose shooting spree left 49 dead at a Florida gay nightclub grew up in California and rarely came back after she married Omar Mateen because he wouldn’t let her, a neighbor says.

Shooter claimed police academy rejection was over religion

Omar Mateen graduated from community college with a criminal justice degree, worked as a security guard and wanted to be a police officer.

As young man, gunman worked ordinary jobs and got married

Like many other young American men, Omar Mateen worked a series of unremarkable jobs after high school and during college. He had an early marriage that faltered.

Trump talks money while campaigning in South Carolina

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says that money won’t make the difference for candidates this election cycle.

Sexting case highlights quandary over child porn laws

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds were plunged into a legal morass with the potential to be branded as sex offenders for decades.

Emails: NC board member involved in disputed voting plan

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican member of the North Carolina elections board worked closely with local officials in their effort to eliminate a heavily Democratic voting site, a plan a judge ruled was intended to suppress voter turnout, according to hundreds of emails reviewed by The Associated Pr

Boy chained up with dead chicken around neck tells his story

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Handcuffed and shackled to a block of steel, the young boy would brace himself when he heard footsteps outside his bedroom door.

Charleston suspect’s life a troubled road to radicalization

CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — The people who know Dylann Storm Roof — the people who watched his progression from a sweet child to a disturbed man — are struggling with guilt.

Man accused of church killings spoke of attacking college

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A black drinking buddy of the white man accused of killing nine people at a Charleston church says the suspect told him a week earlier that he planned to shoot up a college campus in the city.

Friend says church shooting suspect ranted about race

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — In recent weeks, Dylann Storm Roof reconnected with a childhood buddy he hadn’t seen in five years and started railing about the Trayvon Martin case, about black people “taking over the world” and about the need for someone to do something about it for the sake of “the white r

Judge unseals letters of support filed in Petraeus case

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Political, military and international figures are among the nearly three dozen people who filed letters of support for former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was ruined for sharing classified materials with a mistress who was writing his biography.