Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Private Detective Probes Case From Outer Space

Private eye T.K. Davis has worked his share of oddball cases. Once, he tracked down a one-armed woman wanted for child endangerment. He staked out a backyard to catch a guy throwing dirt clods into a pool. When you make your living answering life's mysterious questions at $100 an hour, you take a few calls out of the blue.



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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Sex, Lies & Surveillance

Damien Delzoppo of Avenue Investigations says he was playing a clean game — "well within the limits of the law" — during an episode that ended with one Melbourne contractor blackmailing a rival into pulling out of the tendering for a local council job.

It seems that the rival — owner of a construction business, 20 to 30 workers — had been winning council jobs left and right. He was significantly undercutting everybody else. It was a mystery. It didn't take long to find out the guy was having an affair with his materials supplier. She was selling him the materials cheap.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

An Airline Terminal for a Security-Wary Era

From the moment that passengers first arrive at JetBlue Airways’ $750 million terminal at Kennedy International Airport in September, they will face an unmistakably post-9/11 world.

Most airline terminals have been jury-rigged since 2001 to accommodate all the extra security workers and equipment. But JetBlue’s new Terminal 5 is among the first in the United States designed from the ground up after the terrorist attacks.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Police Hope Surveillance Helps Find IndyGo Shooter

A 15-year-old boy says he's happy to be alive after being shot on an IndyGo bus Saturday night. Now police are asking for the public's help to find the suspect. Surveillance images from inside the bus show the suspect walking to the back. At one point, police say he stepped on a woman's foot.

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Courtney Distancing Self From Advocacy Group's Surveillance-Bill Ads

When a nonprofit group began running ads to pressure U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, into supporting a controversial terrorist surveillance law last month, the congressman's staff quickly denounced them as misleading, partisan and unfair.

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