December 01, 2010 - The pace of real estate transactions in Orleans Parish (New Orleans) has slowed to a crawl because of a computer glitch in the Civil District Court clerk's office. The problem, which has been traced to a failure in the hard drive, has kept researchers from the online data they need to complete a 30-year check on residential and commercial property to make sure that every piece of land for sale isn't burdened by such obstacles as liens, judgments and lawsuits, Clerk Dale Atkins said. "It's a killer," said Sharall Grissen, chief operating officer of Stewart Title of Louisiana. "The real estate business is already tough. This is incredible." The problem was detected Oct. 26, Atkins said, and a ser...
December 01, 2010 - A record number of minors have been accused of crimes or otherwise caught up in criminal activity in Turkey over the past year and a half, a recent...
November 01, 2010 - In a continuing series, The Background Investigator, is sending its attorneys to various countries around the world to explore the justice systems...
November 01, 2010 - When Kate Jarencio applied for a police check in July, she was told it would take eight to 10 weeks. But now, at the beginning of November, there&r...
December 31, 1969 - Although child sex crimes were committed less frequently in Korea than other major countries, the growth rate here had been higher in recent years,...
December 31, 1969 - The personal information of child sex offenders has become available online, according to government officials. The Ministry of Gender Equality...
December 31, 1969 - Chris Wittwer, Britain's 'Facebook Vigilante' has created a Facebook database of nearly 6,000 registered sex offenders. Wittwer, 34...
December 31, 1969 - One joke in India is you can find a criminal record on any politician but you can not find one on an job applicant or employee. Why's that?...
December 31, 1969 - Not content with requiring three different bills with an address, a passport, driving licence, birth certificate, marriage certificate, a letter fr...
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