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State attorneys allege that the Casa Real Health Center, a Santa Fe nursing home, is one of seven facilities that billed Medicaid and private insurers for services they couldn't have delivered, given their low staffing levels.

Industrial Science Hunts For Nursing Home Fraud In New Mexico Case

8:00pm March 31, 2016

by Ina Jaffe

New Mexico is using time-motion studies to sue a chain of nursing homes for fraud. State prosecutors say the facilities couldn't possibly have provided the care promised — and billed for.

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Alabama Governor Faces Calls To Resign Amid Affair Allegations

7:34pm March 31, 2016

by Andrew Yeager

Alabama's governor is embroiled in a political firestorm after allegations of an affair with a top aide. Gov. Robert Bentley denies the affair, but his senior advisor did resign Wednesday. Meanwhile, calls for the governor's resignation are rising.

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Perplexed Rhode Islanders Ridicule State's New 'Cooler and Warmer' Slogan

6:55pm March 31, 2016

Rhode Island's new tourism slogan is "Cooler and Warmer." If you're confused by it or even hate it, you're not alone.

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Donald Trump's Rise Could Threaten Republican House Majority

6:51pm March 31, 2016

by Susan Davis

Republicans hold a historic majority in the House of Representatives, but Donald Trump is challenging the basic assumptions that the GOP's grip on the majority is ironclad.

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The Secret, Social Lives Of Mountain Lions

5:00pm March 31, 2016

by Melodie Edwards

Mountain lions are known to be scary lone hunters, but a biologist aims to prove us wrong with thousands of videos showing the big cats in their natural habitat.

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Opioid Epidemic Sparks HIV Outbreak In Tiny Indiana Town

4:39pm March 31, 2016

by Kelly McEvers

Last spring, Austin, Ind., was at the center of an HIV outbreak linked to intravenous use of the opioid painkiller Opana. In one house in Austin, a man addicted to Opana says he didn't think he would get HIV through sharing needles. The town's only full-time doctor is trying to encourage people to get help, but many people have yet to be tested.

Obama Opens Final Nuclear Security Summit In Washington, D.C.

4:27pm March 31, 2016

by David Welna

Russia is not participating in this year's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., this week. It's the final such event of the Obama administration. Critics are underwhelmed with what the president's nuclear security push has accomplished, and it isn't clear whether the event might continue on into the administration of the next president.

The search for a diverse teaching force can be costly.

A Diverse Teaching Force? This Search Firm Can Help, But It'll Cost You

3:06pm March 31, 2016

by Anya Kamenetz

Meet Stratégenius Consulting — a company that helps schools find candidates from a wide range of backgrounds.

Dr. Dorry Segev (right), of Johns Hopkins Medicine, led the team of doctors that transplanted an HIV-positive liver and kidney into two different HIV-positive patients this month.

New Source Of Transplant Organs For Patients With HIV: Others With HIV

2:31pm March 31, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

The organ donor and both recipients in the procedure this month were all HIV-positive — a first in the U.S. Using HIV-positive organs for some patients could enable a thousand more transplants a year.

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"Everyone that's in there right now has probably done it," Clyde Polly says about Opana injections at his home.

Inside A Small Brick House At The Heart Of Indiana's Opioid Crisis

2:29pm March 31, 2016

by NPR Staff

Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.

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