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Search results for "Floyd" ...
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In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear; Injury, Short Pay
Nathaniel Popper, reporting for the Forward (NY) investigated a Kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, where he uncovered dangerous working conditions, low pay, and anti-unionization pressures that raised questions about the ethics of the Jewish owners of the plant towards their largely immigrant workers.
Tags: Agriprocessors; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; slaughterhouse workers; Latin American immigrants; accidental amputations; Postville, Iowa; union "devils"; animal rights group; health and safety violations; Conservative Jewish synagogue movement; Kosher certification; Orthodox Judaism; immigration authorities; ethics; United Food and Commercial Workers; Father Floyd Paul Ouderkirk; Sholom Rubashkin; Caitlin Didier; Lubavitch Hasidim; Stephen Bloom; "Postville"; PETA; undocumented immigrants; Human Rights Watch; Rabbi Morris Allen; Rabbinical Council of America; Orthodox Union
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Innocence Lost
The story concerned the short life of Evelyn Miller, a young girl found slain after she disappeared from her home near Floyd,IA. The investigation revealed a life of neglect, including being overlooked by the Department of Human Resources. The reporters also investigated the extensive search for the girl in the days that followed her disappearance.
Tags: child pornography; neglect; child abuse; FOIA; drugs; parental rights
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20/20 First Responders
This report looks at whether the "first responders" that is the fire departments and emergency technicians can respond effectively in the event of any terrorist attacks, especially if weapons of mass destruction are used. After talking to officials, the report concluded that the emergency task force does not have any training nor the equipment to counter such a threat.
Tags: bio terrorism; weapons of mass destruction; 9/11; nuclear weapons; terrorism; first responders; fire fighters
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Terminal illness
The "state-of-the-art" MidAmerica Airport, located in St. Clair County (Illinois), built in 1997, cost $300 million and was meant to be a "reliever" for St. Louis Lambert International Airport and also to feed off Scott Air Force base's needs. However different factors, including Lambert's expansion, made the investment almost useless, inasmuch it was not used by any commercial airlines. That fact was on its way to undermine a 1988 study by the Illinois Department of Transportation that predicted 2.8 million passengers would use MidAmerica Airport by 2005.
Tags: Scott Air Force Base; MidAmerica Airport; Lambert International Airport; Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Floyd "Rick" Hargrove; St. Clair County; Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT); Military Airport Program (MAP); Leonard Griggs Regional Commerce and Growth Association (RCGA); John Baricevic; Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois; Air Line Pilots Association
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Target 3 Investigation
A WKYC-TV undercover investigation catches 69-year-old Central State University professor Dr. William Floyd trying to force one of his students to have sex with him to keep her academic scholarship.
Tags: TAPE; undercover camera; sex; Central State University; Dr. William Floyd
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Flood Cars
WRAL-TV investigated what happens to vehicles after the insurance process was over. "...right after Hurricane Floyd flooded our area, we gathered vehicle identification numbers from flood damaged cars. ... Our findings show most of the cars are sent all over the country and even out of the country. They went to places where potential buyers would either not know about the floods here or not grasp the severity of them."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; cars; automobiles; insurance; "flood cars"
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Nightline "Crime and Punishment - Let's Make a Deal"
Nightline finds that "on average, 9 out of 10 cases are resolved by a plea bargain. Is this because the accused are almost always (90+%) guilty? You only need to look at the Rampart scandal that is unfolding in Los Angeles to see that this is not the case." Nightline investigates.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; law; lawyers; plea bargains; Rampart scandal
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Georgia's First Flood Car
WSB-TV investigates if any Georgians have been sold cars that were damaged in Hurricane Floyd. WSB-TV finds what it believes to be the first Georgia case of this consumer fraud.
Tags: TAPES; TRANSCRIPT; Hurricane Floyd; cars; floods; consumer fraud; Georiga
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Like Cain and Abel
This story recounts how the hatred between Floyd and Tom Bledsoe complicated the murder case of their sister-in-law and devastated their community.
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No Act of God
Amicus Journal looks at the damage caused when Hurricane Floyd flooded hog and poultry farms in North Carolina contaminating rivers and wells.
Tags: pollution; hog farms; North Carolina; Hurricane Floyd