WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press and Cox Media Group Television Stations found school crossing guards face dangerous conditions, with many injured or killed on the job. In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, host Haya Panjwani discusses the investigation with editor Ron Nixon and intern reporter Dasia Garner.

Haya Panjwani, The Story Behind the AP Story host: Earlier this year, AP’s director of the local investigative reporting program, Ron Nixon, came up to me with the postcard he got.

Ron Nixon, director of local investigative reporting: I am the person that’s listed for the tips that come to AP. And so every day I get a ton of mail from like prisons and people who suspect that they’ve been abducted by aliens and all of those things. And so, 99.99%

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