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Search results for "Fort Wayne" ...
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Lydia's Kids
One doctor in Fort Wayne, IN obscured the records of adopted children to protect the birth parents. Now the children of those adoptions search in vain for their birth parents.
Tags: adoption
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Cashing Out
WANE-TV examines problems with illegal use of video gambling machines in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The report reveals numerous breaches of the state law that allows local businesses to have video gambling machines for amusement only. A hidden camera investigation finds that bartenders often hand over pay-outs to the gamblers.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; crime; police; Cherry Masters
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Messed-Up Meters
WANE-TV reports "an unscientific test of parking meters in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana.. during the month of October... to see if people really get the time they pay for. So we took a stopwatch and put them to the test over roughly a month's time. Our investigation uncovered a number of inaccuracies. Some of the meters we tested gave us extra time. But others, a third of our sample, shorted us...."
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Open Records, Closed Doors
Seven Indiana newspapers teamed up for an investigation on the difficulty of obtaining open records in the state. In each county, the group requested five common public records: a police incident report, the sheriff's daily crime log, a death record, school board minutes and the salary of the basketball coaches at each county's largest high school. The investigation found widespread disregard of the law by government officials, especially among local sheriffs' units, to disclose documents.
Tags: Indianapolis Star and News; TheJournal Gazette; Fort Wayne; Tribune-Star; Terre Haute; Times of Northwest Indiana; Star Press; Muncie and Tribune; South Bend; County Government Adoption Police
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State of Secrecy
This investigation was done by seven Indiana newspapers, and documented that many government officials routinely violate Indiana law by refusing to release public records. This takes a look at open meetings and open records laws.
Tags: The Indianapolis Star and News; The Times of Northwest Indiana; The Star Press of Munice; South Bend Tribune; The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne; The Evansville Courier; public access law; FOIA
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A Question of Character
Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) examines Waste Management Inc., the world's largest trash-handling firm, which has a long history of violations of state and federal laws; looks at the hauler's regulatory history, the history of its growth and success as a stock commodity, and public concerns,
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News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) investigates the death of a U.S. Navy pilot whose plane crashed; finds that the plane's ejection system failed, trapping the pilot; Navy blames the defense contractor, McDonnell Douglas Corp., which in turn blames the man's death on the navy's decision to extend the useful life of the system, April 4, 1992.
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Power to the Teachers
News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) documents the power of Indiana's teachers union and lobbying group, the Indiana State Teachers Association, and the power it has over the state legislature; the union is considered the most powerful special interest lobby in the state, Oct. 30, 1992.
Tags: Education; teacher unions
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No title (id: 9013)
News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) reports on the state of Indiana's seizure of tax refunds owed to former mental patients who were behind on debts because of stays in state mental hospitals; many of the people were living in poverty, June - November 1992.
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No title (id: 8437)
Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) reports on the substandard level of care received by the mentally disabled in the state of Indiana; the state was in danger of having federal money cut for not meeting federal standards of care, 1991.
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