Loose bonds: Bail agents skip on forfeitures, revoked licenses; judicial practices called into question

Article Abstract:

A judge issues an arrest warrant and orders forfeiture of the defendant's bond when a criminal defendant fails to show up in court. However, it was found that judges and court clerk employees in Oklahoma county were issuing orders and making 'mistakes' that resulted in these bondsmen almost never having to pay their forfeitures that involved more than $1 million in suspected bribery.

Management dynamics, Financial Services, Finance and Insurance, DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS, Management, Financial services industry, Company business management, Fraud investigation, Bail bondsmen, Bail bond agents

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Club fire: 'Who died and why' serves as focus after 100 perish

Article Abstract:

The incident of fire breaking on February 20, 2003 at the nightclub 'The StationE killed 100 people and more than 200 were injured, causing enough death and destruction. The way survivors were trapped in the nightclub, photographs, stories and the coverage by the Providence Journal is described

Analysis, Injuries, Accidents, Fires, Nightclubs, Casualties

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Crime stats: Popular belief proved wrong; home invasions hit mostly poor

Article Abstract:

People living in the poorer, run-down neighborhoods in the city's central core were targeted upon much more often despite having less to steal. Trends show that as home prices and income went up, the number of invasion felt dramatically.

Residential Building Construction, Commodity & service prices, Housing incl Mobile Homes, Prices and rates, Housing, Dwellings, Company pricing policy, Bank robberies

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