News tagged with criminal investigation
Trial beginning over New Orleans' crime cameras
Sep 14, 2009 |
2 / 5 (1) |
0
(AP) -- Jury selection is under way in the civil trial over New Orleans' problem-plagued crime camera system.
Taiwan man arrested for cyber love scams
May 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A Taiwanese man has been arrested for allegedly swindling more than 200 million Taiwan dollars (6.25 million US) from 50 women in one of the largest cyber scams in the country, police said.
New FDA chiefs stress science, better food safety
May 26, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday - one they hope to fix.
Hackers grabbed more than 285M records in 2008
Apr 15, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Hackers made off with at least 285 million electronic records in 2008, more than in the four previous years combined, according to a new study that shows identity thieves are getting better at exploiting careless ...
Tests nipped risk of tainted pistachios in bud
Apr 01, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- A nationwide recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios in the wake of a salmonella scare has increased calls for more stringent food testing laws.
Research Shows an Incentive to Snitch Produces False Information
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- The secondary confession - also known as snitching - is widely accepted as valid evidence in criminal prosecution. Yet, the first behavioral study to investigate whether people will provide false secondary ...
