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Military Gangs
This story reveals the growing problem of military gangs in the U.S. Armed Forces. It focuses on a soldier who died after being beaten to death by fellow gang members in Germany.
Tags: Gangster Disciples; Marine Corps; Criminal Investigative Unit;
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Backyard Bombs
In 1983, two boys were killed in San Diego as a result of old munitions explosion in a nearby canyon. San Diego County has a long military history of training camps and defense sites which have been turned into residential neighborhoods, but traces of that past are still seen today as some explosives were never removed.
Tags: weapons; shell; shell shock; debris; Department of Defense; obstacle course; practice field;
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Protect Yourself Online
Package of stories: "Protect Yourself Online", "7 Online Blunders", "ID Leaks", and "Security Software." These stories investigate the current state of Internet safety, including its impact on the public, as well as highlighting the newest threats and what is being done to fight them. The package of articles found that American consumers lose about $8.5 billion to e-mail scams, that such scams remain a serious threat, and analyzed recent ID breaches.
Tags: online security; ID breaches; e-mail scams; consumer affairs; consumer advocacy
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Combating Autism From Within
This series shows both sides of the vaccine debate concerning mercury's possible role in causing autism. Also, the stories touch on conflicts of interest with drug companies paying and conducting studies with government support, which may prevent users from knowing the truth.
Tags: autism; vaccine; mercury; drug companies; government support;
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Secret Police
KGTV "audited Sand Diego county law enforcement agencies requesting public records. Working with CalAware, a state-wide open records advocacy group, we went undercover to see how these agencies would comply with California's Open Record laws."
Tags: CalAware; undercover; open record; law enforcement; oral request; written request; public documents
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Brian Ross Investigates: Conduct Unbecoming
"In a year-long series of stories for World News and Nightline, ABC News' chief investigative correspondent and his team reported on a pattern of unbecoming and unethical behavior in offficial Washington that culminated in the revelation's of Congreeman Mark Foley's sexually-explicit internet messages with high school students who served as Congressional pages." Stories in the series also examine some of the consequences from the lack of an ethics code for the Supreme Court and a probe of unethical behavior of a retired U.S. General.
Tags: broadcast; financial disclosure forms; lobbyist Jack Abramoff; Congressman Tom Delay; Congressman Mark Foley; instant messaging; Congressional Pages; House Ethics Committee; Kyle "Dusty" Foggo; CIA; Air Force; Department of Defense Inspector General's Office; Federal Election Commission; Political Money Line; Federalist Sociey; legal ethics; Supreme Court; Congress; Pentagon; influence peddling; FBI; IRS; Brent Wilkes; Taxpayers for Common Sense; Keith Ashdown; Porter Goss; Thunderbirds; General T. Michael Mosely; Senator Tom Coburn; General Hal Hornburg; Project on Government Oversight; Danielle Brian; U.S. Trademark Office; General John Jumper; Blue Angels; midterm elections; access; Campaign Legal Center; Gerry Hebert; pay to play; House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children; sexually explicit messages; sexual exploitation; graphic language; solicitation; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert; Internet sex; FBI investigation; Congressman Tom Reynolds
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Nuestra Familia, Our Family
An investigative documentary film about the prison gang's in California and the effect they have on Latino families. Interviews inside prison and with family members outside explain haunting lifestyle that emerges from gang life. The documentary focuses on a father who turns his life around, while his son's involvement in the Nuestra Family gang becomes deeper.
Tags: gangs; prison; jail; organized crime; violence; latino; hispanic
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Promise of a View
The authors investigated the sale of apartments with a guaranteed view that the house buyer paid for, but that the builder had no right to sell and that would in fact be obstructed by future buildings.
Tags: housing; fraud; Arizona Department of Real Estate; property deeds; land parcels
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Mining For Dollars
This investigation exposed waste and negligence in the Arizona State Mine Inspector's office. Employees were found using state cars for personal trips, exploiting the travel budget (including a 10 person trip to Reno for a conference that was not pertinent to most of them) and not performing inspections. One inspector had not performed a single inspection in 2005 as of story's broadcast.
Tags: mining; mines; mine safety; mine inspection; government waste; Arizona; state government
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Primetime Thursday -- Caught Cheating
This Primetime investigation examined highschools and colleges across the United States, and found that cheating is all too common. Reporters talked with students who cheat and administrators who have to dole out the punishment. The investigation exposed new, high tech methods of cheating such as text messaging or hand-held internet devices. On the other hand, it also exposed new high-tech methods of catching cheaters, such as a website that scans documents for plagiarism. The investigators talked with students and parents to offer possible reasons for this trend.
Tags: high school; secondary school; college; university; testing; exams; finals; academic honesty; ethics; professors