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Mid-South Lookahead Digest

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The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan.

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KENTUCKY - UPCOMING - NEWS

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ADOPTED-LOCKED AWAY

DESCRIPTION: Adoptees are vastly overrepresented in the so-called troubled teen industry, a sprawling network of private, for-profit wilderness camps and residential treatment centers. They account for 2% of American children, yet an estimated 25-40% of those in facilities, experts said. Dozens of adoptees say they were subjected to dehumanizing punishments — scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes, being routinely thrown to the ground by guards and restrained. Companies charge as much as $20,000 a month and advertise to struggling adoptive parents, promising to treat reactive attachment disorder, a medical diagnosis that experts say has been corrupted and was never meant to be applied to these kids.

UPCOMING: By 04/21/2026 12:01 a.m. EDT, ('Alternate(backslash)xa0Headlines', 'Text', 'Photo', 'Graphic', 'Video')

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NORTH CAROLINA - UPCOMING - NEWS

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ADOPTED-LOCKED AWAY

DESCRIPTION: Adoptees are vastly overrepresented in the so-called troubled teen industry, a sprawling network of private, for-profit wilderness camps and residential treatment centers. They account for 2% of American children, yet an estimated 25-40% of those in facilities, experts said. Dozens of adoptees say they were subjected to dehumanizing punishments — scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes, being routinely thrown to the ground by guards and restrained. Companies charge as much as $20,000 a month and advertise to struggling adoptive parents, promising to treat reactive attachment disorder, a medical diagnosis that experts say has been corrupted and was never meant to be applied to these kids.

UPCOMING: By 04/21/2026 12:01 a.m. EDT, ('Alternate(backslash)xa0Headlines', 'Text', 'Photo', 'Graphic', 'Video')

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SOUTH CAROLINA - UPCOMING - NEWS

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CLIMATE-FIREPROOF HOMES

DESCRIPTION: As wildfire season nears, insurance industry officials are testing if better building standards can keep homes near already blazing infrernos from going up in flames themselves. They do this with a series of tests in South Carolina of model homes next to a building they torch. AP is there. Researchers hope to find out if California's new home standards work to keep fires at bay and if so, what are the limits of how they work?

UPCOMING: By 04/21/2026 09:00 a.m. EDT, ('Alternate(backslash)xa0Headlines', 'Text', 'DigitalPlans', 'Photo', 'Video')

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