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Protect and Serve
The investigation of a Florida Atlantic University police officer, who was arrested for allegedly shooting escort Sheri Deann Carter in January 2011. Ho had a history of violence and a rap sheet that included many civilian complaints and battery charges from his wife.
Tags: Police; Florida Atlantic University, Rape, Escort, Sheri Dean Carter
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Birthdates Controversy
Government agencies and legislators in Oklahoma had fought unsuccessfully to make the birth dates of public employees confidential despite state open records laws. The investigation found that the state makes millions of dollars selling birth dates of regular citizens.
Tags: birthdates; open records; public employees; union; public
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"Drinking at Duke"
In this two-part series, Sanette Tanaka examines the alcohol policy and drinking culture at Duke University. The reporter reveals differences in drinking policies between private and public universities, as well as examines the effectiveness of the "new associate dean," who has implemented an "education-based harm-reduction model" in an effort to curb "binge drinking among students."
Tags: alcohol; binge drinking; Tom Szigethy; Stanford; Harvard; Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research; UNC; Wake Forest; National College Health Assessment
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"Racial disparities in home lending"
A 2008 analysis of more than half a million home loan applications in the Dayton, Ohio, region revealed that blacks with higher incomes were denied home loans, while lower-income whites were not. The report also found that blacks were more likely to receive "high-cost loans" than whites. The real estate market denies redlining practices that were made illegal "in 1977 by the federal Community Reinvestment Act."
Tags: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; NICAR; GIS; Community Reinvestment Advisory Group; Dean Lovelace; Dayton Human Relations Commission; Federal Housing Authority; home loans; redlining
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Credit Troubles
This series looks into some of the hidden traps and power imbalances that characterize the credit industry. Business Week spoke with executives, employees and consumers of various arms of the credit industry.
Tags: credit score; home-loan; FICO; debt; consumer-law bar; repay; payment
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The Robert Felner Investigation
Dr. Robert Felner was raided by federal agents his last day as the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development University of Louisville. He was to become Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Parkside but was under question about a $500,000 grant.
Tags: Department of Education; No Child Left Behind; Curriculum Vitae; National Center for Public Education and Prevention; payroll
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Above the Law
And Inside Edition investigation exposed an inept investigation and possibly a cover-up by the Pennsylvania State Police when they investigated a fatal accident involving Dean O'Halloran, a state police officer's stepson.
Tags: cover-up; drunk driving; field sobriety test; confidentiality laws; blood alcohol test; Pennsylvania State Police
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Robert Felner
Former University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner was involved in a money laundering scheme that led to the misappropriation of $2.3 million in contract and federal grant funds.
Tags: Thomas Schroeder; mail fraud; University of Rhode Island; education; graduate school;
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Muerte en el desierto: El Regreso de Jesus
Identifying the dead migrants that try to cross the border from Mexico to the United States has proven difficult because half of the bodies are found with fake or borrowing identification.
Tags: border patrol; immigration; foreign relations; Yuma County; DNA testing; border crossing; illegal immigrant; illegal immigration; green card; Mexico
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Dirty Bombs
"Radioactive devices are stolen from cars, disappear from construction sites, fall off trucks and generally go astray at a startling pace. A computer database compiled by The Canadian Press showed how dozens of these tools - from a darkroom truck in northern British Columbia to a device used for molecular separation in Montreal - have gone missing in the last five years. The items vanished despite federal disaster planning reports that warn terrorists could wreak multimillion-dollar havoc if a nuclear gauge was used to build a crude 'dirty bomb.'"
Tags: radioactive; dirty bomb; bioterrorism; terrorism