Officers carry June Loch to dry land after she was rescued from her home in the Pine Glen subdivision of Columbia, S.C. on Oct. 5, 2015. Record rainfall that October triggered floods that killed at least 19 people in South Carolina and caused extensive damage to neighborhoods that had never flooded before. Despite that disaster, only 9 percent of South Carolina households had purchased flood insurance by May of last year. Tim Dominick
Thousands of emails reveal how CGI Technologies landed a $61 million contract to overhaul Kansas tax systems. New Gov. Laura Kelly has promised to crack down on no-bid contracts.