Alex Ruppenthal

Two days after her 17th birthday, Cayla Panzer says she was driving home from gymnastics practice when she got a disturbing text message from her coach. “Don’t tell anyone about it,” the text said. “I don’t want you to think I’m a child molester. I don’t want to go to jail for this.” Panzer did tell others about it, about how Vilchis had sexually abused her repeatedly. Nothing came of it -- but now others are coming forward, too.

USA Gymnastics officials in Illinois took no apparent action to keep a coach away from other youth gymnasts after he was first accused of sexual abuse in 1997. In 2014, the coach, a former Olympian, was again accused of sexual abuse, this time by two teens from a different gym.

More than two decades after first being accused of sexual abuse, a longtime Chicago-area gymnastics coach was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl who trained with him in the far southwest suburbs.

“Quite honestly, the core values of this administration are so divergent from my own, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity [for retirement],” said Briana Bill, a 27-year EPA veteran who retired in August. “I found it difficult to work for an agency with someone who is so disrespectful of what we do and why we do it.”

The personnel file of Medford Police officer Stephen LeBert details a pattern of verbal and physical misconduct — including three criminal complaints alleging either assault or assault and battery. "[He] was acting like a madman," wrote one complainant who said LeBert mocked her status as a retired immigration officer.

For decades, residents on Chicago’s Far Southeast Side lived with clouds of black dust from piles of petcoke stored at nearby industrial sites. Now, the community faces a more dangerous pollutant: manganese.

The poem April Marin handed out at her son’s funeral is titled, “You Took a Risk And The Risk Took You.”

The incident is the latest evidence of the city's neglect of the library and its 111 High St. home. Last May, a Transcript investigation found the city had failed to meet funding levels set by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) for six consecutive years.

Officer Jason Montalbano's post contains an image of a mushroom cloud and a reference to the United States’ atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. Below the image reads, “IT’S TIME WE MADE PEACE WITH ISLAM.”

Mike Phillips' story is increasingly common for today's high school athletes. It goes like this: Suffer injury. Get prescribed opioid painkillers. Get hooked. Become an addict.