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Search results for "Brevard" ...
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Deed scam targets inheritances
"A Florida business used forged signatures, some of people who had died decades ago, to collect more than $300,000 from Brevard County. The money was from an escrow fund of money left over from sales of land sold for back taxes."
Tags: General Development Corp; Palm Bay; heir; fraud;
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I-95 Speed zones are not most dangerous
This investigation found that speed zones in Brevard County, FL, were established not necessarily because of high rates of speed-related accidents, but merely in areas where people who supported the law lived. Some of the zones are actually in places with very low rates of speeding-related crashes.
Tags: traffic; transportation; highways; department of highway safety; microsoft access
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Priced out of the Market
An investigation of home prices and housing affordability in Brevard County, Florida. The reporter found that the number of neighborhoods where a family earning the county's median income could afford to buy a median priced house dropped dramatically from 2000-2005.
Tags: real estate; house prices; home buying; Brevard County; property market; affordable housing
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Brevard's neediest on edge of disaster; thousands of poor, seniors eligible for storm evacuation program
This investigation, done in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, shows that Brevard County, Florida is also unprepared to handle a similar natural disaster. "Like New Orleans, tens of thousands of seniors, poor people and families with no cars live in neighborhoods likely to be overcome by storm surge or flooded rivers in a powerful hurricane..."
Tags: FEMA; natural disaster; flood; hurricane; public transportation; emergency; mapping; database analysis
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Growth's New Frontier
This investigation looked at how rapid population growth in Florida could affect Brevard County, where Cape Canaveral is located. Specifically, the investigation focused on more rural areas that typically were used for ranches and fruit groves. The authors found that developers were buying rural land away from the coast and converting it into housing communities.
Tags: development; property; investment; state politics; county politics; urbanization
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Tickets are Going Fast for Beachside Speeders
Despite their size, some of Florida's smaller cities are issuing more speeding tickets than the larger ones. According to this investigation Indialantic, one of the smaller cities, issues more tickets than the town has residents. While some blame the busy causeways that go through these towns, others believe it has more to do with rush-hour commuters taking shortcuts.
Tags: Brevard county; traffic enforcement; Melbourne Beach; Indialantic; Satellite Beach; speeding tickets
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Show and Tell Tape #1
2004 IRE National Conference (Atlanta) Show and Tell Tape #1 features the following stories: 1)Phil Williams (WTVF-Nashville) A hidden camera investigation proves that special interest lobbyists are buying Tennessee lawmakers. 2)Stephen Stock (WESH-Orlando) An investigation into new home inspections found inspectors conducting too many inspections daily with a passing rate as high as 99 percent in one county. 3)Anna Werner and David Raziq (KHOU-Houston) Children as young as 11-years-old were being physically abused at the juvenile probation department in Harris County, Texas. 4)Tony Pipitone (WKMG-Orlando)The Brevard School District in Orlando requested additional funding from the federal government for poorer schools but put that money toward helping the district as a whole. 5)Brian Collister (WOAI-San Antonio) A national report claimed that San Antonio police were among the best in the country for not targeting minority motorists, but an investigation proved police officers skewed the data. 6) Jacqueline McLean (KGMB-Honolulu) A cemetery that hasn't been licensed in nine years makes room for more bodies by removing old ones. 7) Chris Halsne (KIRO-Seattle) Mapping software found 605 sex offenders living near day cares statewide. None of the day cares were ever notified. 8) Bog Segall (WITI-Milwaukee) Many inmates use their phone privileges to call their victims, intimidating them in the hopes they won't show up at trial. 9)Larry Posner (Inside Edition) An investigation into Pitts, one of the largest door-to-door magazine sellers in the country, found the company charging high rates, abusing employees and hiring felons. 10)Randy Travis (WAGA-Atlanta) This undercover investigation found a state court judge having 19 drinks and then getting in his car to drive. 11)Jim Strickland (WSB-Atlanta) This investigation exposed forgery and fraud by an Atlanta Booting company. 12)Bebe Emerman (KIRO-Seattle) A problem with the powercord of one brand of oscillating fans was linked to 20 house fires. 13)Elisabeth Leamy (WTTG) This story discusses the lives of those held in concentration camps and the Nazi tattoos they received.
Tags: tape; show and tell; investigative; Atlanta; no transcripts; IRE
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Life before, during and after
In this special report, Florida Today looks at life before, during and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Tags: 9/11; September 11; terrorism; World Trade Center towers; Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; Brevard; security; economy
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No title (id: 8517)
Transylvania Times (Brevard, N.C.) finds that a billiard manufacturing and distribution company that received a state loan has consistently not met the requirements of that loan, which has prevented the state from giving the town a housing grant, July 22, 1991.
Tags: NC