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Speed Trap Controversy
Some Detroit speed limits may be set too low, according to a Detroit News investigation. Municipalities in Michigan were not complying with Public Act 85 which requires them to conduct studies to set proper speed limits.
Tags: speed limits; traffic; roads; speed trap; Public Act 85
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"Meltdown"
After the Eureka Ice and Cold Storage company suddenly closed its doors in 2008, businesses were left scrambling to find a new way to get their ice. The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services that ordered the company shut its doors, would not discuss the case. HSU journalism students eventually found that before the company closed it had several citations and violations of "public health and safety laws" going back for years.
Tags: Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services; Eureka Ice and Cold Storage; Dennis Hunter; Humboldt Maritime Museum; Cutten Realty
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Toxic Legacy: The Story of Boat Harbor
An inlet from the sea in Nova Scotia is the site of an environmental catastrophe wrought by a Scott Paper Company mill. To attract the mill, officials approved using Boat Harbor as a toxic waste treatment pond. The investigation details the actions governmental bodies took in conjunction with Scott Paper that produced the health hazard that Boat Harbor creates for nearby residents today.
Tags: Nova Scotia; Boat Harbor; Scott Paper; mill; toxic; waste; water; residents; lagoon; environment; health; hazard; public;
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Nevada Bounty Hunters
KLAS-TV investigates the rights that bounty hunters have while in search of a fugitive. It includes "the legal authority to enter private property while in search of wanted fugitives," which is only regulated by "the state division that regulates insurance."
Tags: bounty hunter; fugitive; search; injuries; law enforcement;
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Public Payroll, Family Affairs: Aldermen Keep It Relative
"A six-month investigation of payroll records and hiring practices revealed that at least six of Chicago's 50 City Council members employed relatives on their publicly funded ward staffs."
Tags: payroll; City Council members; corruption; ward staffs; student entry
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Depleted Uranium Radioactive Dust
The investigation showed that while the U.S. military has downplayed the hazards of depleted uranium munitions. Also the "Pentagon has issued repeated denials that depleted uranium dust was a danger to the troops but...the military's own training videos told a different story." However these training videos made after the first Gulf War which warn about the dangers and show how to mitigate it, were not shown to troops before the second Gulf War. Causing soldiers to be "unknowingly exposed to this radio active dust and some claim they are sick today because of it."
Tags: military; radio active dust; residue; armor piercing munitions; Gulf War; uranium; Pentagon' depleted uranium munitions
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Assignment Peru: Poison in La Oroya
American mining company Doe Run bought a metalurgical plant in La Oroya, Peru, promising to clean it up after tests showed 99 percent of children born after the take-over had incredibly high level of lead contamination. Ten years later, the company has asked for extensions on the deadlines.
Tags: lead poisoning; air pollution; Doe Run; Hunter Farrell; SEC filings; La Oroya; Peru;
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Hacker Hunters
The authors investigated a battle of wits between the U.S. secret service and a cyber-crime gang known as the ShadowCrew. The story covers a rare victory by law enforcement to shut down a web-based crime outfit. It gave a face to the ShadowCrew, a network of over 4,000 people run by a part time college student and gave a reminder to internet users to be wary of doing business on the Web.
Tags: Internet; cyber-crime; web-based crime outfit; ShadowCrew; the U.S. Secret Service; e-business; Internet security
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Blind Eye
This series analyzes the problems and failures of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center lacks funds and up-to-date instruments, and sometimes expensive equipment fails in severe weather conditions. The two hurricane hunter turboprop planes that belong to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are frequently unavailable to track hurricanes because they are diverted to other jobs that have little or nothing to do with weather.
Tags: National weather service; hurricanes; meteorology; weather predictions
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Blue Mob
This investigative story is a narrative as told by an eccentric civil rights lawyer. It started off as a regular coverage of a rally protesting police brutality. As it turned out the reporter learned about the incidents of police brutality in a small town of Warren, OH. On pursuing this lead the reporter found that people who were arrested in this town were not only beaten up but that their families were afraid to talk and feared more police harassment.
Tags: police brutality; anti police brutality rally; Warren Ohio; Ohio crime; Ohio police; FOIA; public records; police; law; civil rights; civil rights lawyer; Cleveland; Richard Olivito