Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation. Todd is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War.
The head of the Border Patrol union has called the deployment of National Guard soldiers to the border a waste of time, saying the soldiers are duplicating, not adding to, agents' efforts.
A former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractor has pleaded guilty to taking $320,000 in bribes while overseeing an $8.1 million Afghan construction project.