Saturday, 10 January 2015

Our 9 Favorite Feature Stories This Week: Dirty Cops, Michael Brown Sr., And A Whole Lot Of Elvis

This week for BuzzFeed News, Elise Jordan goes back to her hometown Mississippi to visit the world’s most notorious Elvis shrine. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.


The Last Days Of Graceland Too — BuzzFeed News


The Last Days Of Graceland Too — BuzzFeed News


Paul MacLeod's Graceland Too — a house-turned-shrine to the King of Rock 'n Roll — ushered in decades of tourism to the small town of Holly Springs, MS and made its eccentric owner a local celebrity. But when MacLeod shot his handyman dead at the property and died himself two days later, Graceland Too came to symbolize more than an innocuous hobby. Read it at BuzzFeed News.


Photograph by Tim Soter


America's Dirtiest Cops: Cash, Cocaine and Corruption on the Texas BorderRolling Stone


America's Dirtiest Cops: Cash, Cocaine and Corruption on the Texas Border — Rolling Stone


An unbelievable romp of a story by Josh Eells on the rise and downfall of the Panama Unit, an elite anti-narcotics border task force — led by the son of a sheriff — that took bribes from some drug dealers and used police resources to rob others. "They were running around like that movie Training Day." Read it at Rolling Stone.


Illustration by John Ritter, Image of Alexis Espinoza in illustration by Gabe Hernandez/“The Monitor” / AP Images


Michael Brown Sr. and the Agony of the Black Father in AmericaEsquire


Michael Brown Sr. and the Agony of the Black Father in America — Esquire


John H. Richardson spends a heartbreaking, yet hopeful, Thanksgiving with the Brown family, as Mike Brown, Sr. reflects on his son, goes to church, and grapples with his new life in the public eye. "At one point, he lowers his head and hides his face under his hat brim. When he lifts his head again, his face looks exhausted and stoic and agonized, like a man determined not to cry out under torture." Read it at Esquire .


Photograph by Barrett Emke for Esquire


Construction Work is Getting More Deadly, but Only for Latinos — BuzzFeed News


Construction Work is Getting More Deadly, but Only for Latinos — BuzzFeed News


While construction work has gotten safer for every other group over the past decade, the deaths of Latino workers has been on the rise. David Noriega reports on the startling trend. Read it at BuzzFeed News.


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