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PUBLIC RECORDS ONLINE
Free Public Records directory (publicrecords.onlinesearches.com): search by type, location.
Public Records Databaseson the Web $ (www.searchsystems.net) by state, county, city. (Also has available records by country.) Once free, now requires paid registration.
NETRonline (www.netronline.com) has links to county clerk, recorder and property appraiser databases (or websites) nationwide.
Industry Links from Merlindata (www.merlindata.com/industrylinks.html) Has good comprehensive list of public records links down to states/counties.
Virtual Chase(www.virtualchase.com/) has a great guide to finding public records, directories and person locators.
BRB Public Record Resouce Finder (www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp) public records resource vendor finds Public Records Sites, Public Records Retrievers, lots more. Note this site has international links. BRB also provides a subscription service with much more detail, The Public Record Research System-Web (PRRS-Web) $.
Free Public Records Finder (www.freeprf.com) this one's new. Includes a good list of vital statistics search sources, including marriages.
Virtual Gumshoe's Free Public Records Directory. Good lists under lots of different categories, great marriage and divorce database list.
Journalists' Toolbox: Public Records from American Press Institute.
Pretrieve (www.pretrieve.com): gives you name/location info, but info on what records are available no longer free, directs you to IntelUS.
ZabaSearch (www.zabasearch.com): free national people finder with links to complete background checks (fee).
MelissaData (www.melissadata.com/) has people finder lookups as well as address information, lots of info by ZIP code.
PIPL (www.pipl.com):search engine for people, finds some public records as well as otherlinks (address, phone, email, blogs, news, networking sites).
Lexis ONE search of state public records, by subscription.
PropertyAppraiser Databases (www.people.virginia.edu/~dev-pros/Realestate.html)
Links to state corporation and charities databases: statelocalgov.net; SearchSystems $; or use directories above to find by state.
Everyblock (http://www.everyblock.com/) has localized data down to block level, starting with Chicago, LA and NYC, will expand.
Inmate Locator(www.corrections.com/links/show/20) links to searchable databases of offendersin several states.
Jail.orghas links to criminal/inmate searches nationwide. Not all links lead tosearches, though, some just link to county jail sites.
Guidestar(www.guidestar.org) charity search with images of 990 IRS forms (registration; subscription for historical reports). Guidestar UK.
Nonprofit Salary Search (www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com) from Economic Research Institute, finds IRS form 990s (includes historical). Or search for salary info from SEC and IRS filings.
The Foundation Center (foundationcenter.org/findfunders/990finder/) also has a nonprofit search. Also:
Noza.com, 'world's largest database of charitable gifts; IRS Charities and NonProfits Search (listing only).
Landings(www.landings.com) search pilots, planes. (Look for Databases link.)
FAA Aircraft Registration Search (registry.faa.gov/arquery.htm) from FAA. Updated daily.
Canadian civil aircraft registration
Campaign Contribution Searches:
- Federal Elections Commission (herndon1.sdrdc.com/fecimg/query.html)
- CQ MoneyLine (formerly FECInfo)
- C-Span; Fundrace; Open Secrets.
- Florida Elections Division (election.dos.state.fl.us/campfin/cfindb.shtml)
- Other States (www.campaignfinance.org).
Statewide collections:
State Agency Databases American Library Assn. Wiki collecting links.
(Online newspaper public records databases, by state
- Arizona Republic's Data Central uses Google Maps to map crime data, has useful databases of real estate, restaurant inspections, campaign finance, and more, with links to other Arizona public records.
- Sacramento Bee Investigations (CA), has a couple local databases and links to public records searches.
- Delaware Online from the News Journal (Wilmington). Has statewide property, nonprofits and state spending, and links to business licenses and corporations, lots more.
- Florida Today Watchdog Data Center has some local databases on animal violations, boating accidents and bridge violations, restaurant inspections and jail bookings from Brevard County, and some links to Florida and national databases.
- Gainesville (FL) Sun Watchdog: a local daycare search, links to local and state databases, courts, etc, stories, and a Watchdog Blog.
- Miami Herald (FL) Watchdog: searches of crimes, deaths, campaign contributions and home sales by address.
- Atlanta Journal Constitution Watchdog (GA): courts, property, campaign donors, nonprofits, professional licenses, and more.
- IndyStar Data Central Indianapolis and Indiana property records, public employee and crime databases, business, education, sports and more.
- Des Moines Register Watchdog (Iowa): includes a People Finder database that searches local public records, state salaries, million dollar homes, donors, crime, and lots more databases.
- Lexington Herald Journal (Kentucky.com) Info Center: handy page of direct search forms for lots of public records databases, and other search links.
- Courier-Journal Data Center (Louisville, KY): few public records searches but lots of statistics, and salaries, gambling,sex offenders and bridge inspection databases.
- Lansing State Journal: Data connection includes a database of Michigan state employees, real estate sales, campaign finance and disclosure.
- Twin Cities.com: Data Planet has links to lots of crime/courts searches, property searches, health care and general interest databases in Minnesota and the Twin Cities, from the Pioneer Press.
- Data Universe, Asbury Park Press (NJ) has property records, state employees, campaign contributions, teacher and consumer information databases.
- Courier-News Data Universe (NJ) has lots of searchable public records databases from New Jersey, including property, public employees, death records and much more. Identical to above?
- Star Ledger: New Jersey by the Numbers has property, crime, public payrolls, lots more.
- Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle: RocDocs. Mostly local interest databases but includes a few public records on crime, statewide and local real estate and school databases.
- Poughkeepsie Journal's Data Now (NY)includes boating accidents on the Hudson River, salaries, grants and campaign contributions.
- Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times: Database Warehouse, includes campaign contributions, local violations, bridges, inmates, lots of statistics.
- Data Center, Charlotte Observer (NC): has state employees' salaries database, Mecklenburg County crime, real estate, etc. and statewide campaign contributions, inmates, corporations.
- Plain Dealer Data Central (Cleveland, Ohio) including a Lebron James Statistical Bible and other sports databases, less searchable public records but lots of stats on real estate, schools, crime, and more, from dams to theaters.
- Cincinnati.com Data Center (OH) statistics and news related database, a few public records searches.
- Utah's Right to Know, public records databases including court records, public employee salaries, etc. from Salt Lake Tribune.
- Roanoke Times (VA): Datasphere local interest databases and public records like courts, lobbyists, medical professional discipline.
- Green Bay Press Gazette Datamine (Wisconsin): databases in all categories from business professionals to transportation (deer accidents, etc.)
- Data on Demand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: along with the usual, hunting accidents, dam and bridge inspections.
- Datamine, Appleton (WI) Post Crescent: lots of statewide databases, businesses, charities. Just added a state pardons search.
(Some contributions to this list came from MaryJo at Pioneer Planet.)
Courts and Criminal
Search Systems Free Criminal Records Search Guide. Guideto what's legally available in criminal records, and links to SearchSystems' Directpass and Premium criminal searches (subscriptionrequired).
Criminal Searches offers free searches of court and inmate databases from available public records nationwide. Not all records will be included.
VINElink (www.vinelink.com)This site from the Baron Foundation (combating domestic violence) makesonline searches available from state and county records. Usuallyincludes inmate records from most counties, and state Corrections data.
NatlCenter for State Courts (www.ncsconline.org/) links to courts online, including federal and other countries.
LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets (www.llrx.com/courtrules/) Click on Dockets to get local online court searches.
PACER U.S. CourtsNational Index $ (pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov/) Search all federalbankruptcy, civil and criminal courts and get statistics; subscription.
PACER Web links (pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/links.pl)Links to all US Courts available for searching on the Web, includingU.S. District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts. Need subscription to accesscourts.
Justia: Dockets (dockets.justia.com/) offers free search of federal courts dockets starting in Jan. 2006. (You'll need PACER for docket list or documents.)
Public Library of Law: Case search
AltLaw: fulltext searches of U.S. Supreme and Circuit Appeals Courts case reports from Columbia Law School.
Free Bankruptcy Search from Courthouse Direct ; (you'll still have to pay for dockets or documents, here or from PACER).
Legal Dockets Online $ (www.legaldockets.com/)subscription site, searches court dockets, rulings, and inmatedatabases. Has recently added property records, liens and recorded docs.
CANLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) searches Canadian courts on federal and provincial levels.
Bureau of Prisons InmateLocator (www.bop.gov) all federal inmates 1982-present.
Jail.org has links to criminal/inmate searches nationwide. Not all links lead to searches, though, some just link to county jail sites.
PoliceReports.US has reports from some police agencies nationwide.
Criminal Records by State:
Alaska trial court name index database for criminal and civil courts. (new address).
Arizona inmates search; Arizona courts public access 153 of 180 counties.
Arizona Theft Database public access database on stolen vehicle information. Searchby license plate number or VIN.
State of Arkansas Online Criminal Background Check System, $22 per request.
California Appellate Courts searchable case information.
InmateInformation Center, Los Angeles County from county sheriff's office.
Colorado Inmate Locator System
Colorado criminal histories from Colorado Bureau of Investigation, $6.85 per search.
CoCourts, search most county courts (subscription).
Connecticut Civil/& Family case search.
Connecticut inmate information.
Connecticut case lookup includes pending cases, bond information and including motor vehicle cases, housing and small claims.
D.C. court dockets.
Florida records (separate section includes state, county, city searches)
Georgia Dept of CorrectionsOffenders search, Most Wanted, sex offenders, and inmate populationstatistics. For Offenders you can choose currently incarcerated or anyoffenders current and past. Record contains criminal history, andphoto.
Georgia Parolee Database
Idaho Offender search from state Dept. of Corrections.
Idaho Supreme Court Data Depository searches cases in all 44 counties, back to 1995.
Illinois Inmate Search from Dept. of Corrections.
Indiana limited criminal history search by subscription $15 or credit card $16.50.
Iowa Courts Online lookup of civil, criminal and traffic cases from all 99 counties.
Kansas Dept of Corrections KASPAR search (inmates); Kansas postrelease/supervision searches released inmates, probation.
Kentucky Offender/Inmates search.
Maryland Judiciary Case search finds traffic, criminal and civil cases from state District and
Circuit courts.
Michigan Offender search from state dept of corrections.
Michigan ICHAT: The Internet Criminal History Access Tool, criminal records searches $10.
Minnesota public criminal history search.
State of Minnesota Offender locator
Minnesota Trial Court Records Public Access Statewide criminal, civil, family, probate, judgements, and calendar.
Mississippi parolees; Mississippi inmates
Missouri Casenet Civil, criminal, probate and traffic from several counties, and appellate decisions. Name search.
Montana Correctional Offender Network database of convicted felons in Montana.
Montana Criminal Record check, $11.50 per search.
Nebraska inmate lookup
Nebraska Court Searches ($15).
New Hampshire inmate locator.
New Mexico State Judiciary Case Lookup search all state district and magistrate courts.
New Mexico Inmate search
New York State E-Courts has links to search civil, criminal, housing, family courts statewide and local.
North Carolina Business Court has opinions online.
North Carolina Court Recordssearch civil, criminal, driving records, fees not posted. Also includes a skip trace search for $25.
North Carolina Offenders from Dept. of Corrections, search all inmates back to 1985 plus releases and escapees.
North Carolina District and Superior Court Query
North Carolina Impaired Driver Query
North Dakota Courts search searches district courts and some municipal courts for civil, criminal and traffic cases.
Search Ohio Offender Records has current and recently relased inmates in the state corrections system.
Oklahoma State Courts: case search not all counties included.
Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System provided dockets in all courts.
Pennsylvania Inmate Locator
Pennsylvania criminal history (PATCH) system (new address) Cost: $10.
Rhode Island Adult Criminal Information Database
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has statewide criminal checks for $25.
Charleston County, SC Clerk of Courts has free access of civil and criminal court records.
Tennessee Felony Offender Lookup from state Dept of Corrections.
Tennessee's Out-of-State Parole and Probation Supervision Registry search a name and get criminal record info on people living in TN who are on probation/parole from other states.
Texas Department of Public Safetyseveral lists and searches here, including a criminal history search.Must register or purchase credits for access to criminal historydatabase.
Vermont court records online (most courts; sign up for $12.50 gives you 5 lookups).
Virginia Dept of Corrections has and absconders, escapees; separate inmate search .
Virginia Circuit Courts case information .
Washington Criminal History database $10 with credit card.
Washington JIS-link, access to court dockets. Pay service, with more detail than:
Washington Courts, search by case number, name, get case summary, docket. Free.
Wisconsin Criminal History records check
Wisconsin Circuit Courts Access criminal, traffic, forfeiture, family, and civil case information andjudgments in circuit courts for most (but not all) Wisconsin counties. Other Wisconsin court cases.
For more, try the public records directories above, or Virtual Gumshoe's list of criminal records online.
Miscellaneous National/International Searches and Public Records Info
Find where/when Social Security Number was issued (from Searchbug). Or try SSN Watch, from Carnegie-Mellon.
Social Security Death Index (www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advanced.htm) Searchable database of death filings for Social Security benefits, from Ancestry.com.
Social Security Death Index (ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com) from RootsWeb.
Searching the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) in One Step
SSN Locator Search (www.usrecordsearch.com/ssn.htm) Match number prefix to states.
Clark County, NV did your target get married in Las Vegas? Lots do. Also has business licenses, official documents. Click on Online Services.
Idaho Driver License status.
Marriage/Divorce databases: list from Virtual Gumshoe.
Oklahoma county clerk databases: search recording indexes of 28 counties at once.
Florida county clerk databases (recording indexes). Most, but not all counties.
Vessel Documentation search for a documented ship or boat from the US Coast Guard's vessel database by name of ship.
Landings Aviation Databases (www.landings.com):Click on Databases; include Pilot licenses (Note after 1998 pilots can opt out ofpublic Airmen's Registry database!); Aircraft registrations includingseveral other countries. Also: accidents, incidents and servicedifficulty reports and accidents.
Canadian civil aircraft registration
Guidestar (www.guidestar.org) charities database with images of IRS 990 filings.
Employer Sanction Database (www.cis.org/sanctions search for companies sanctioned for hiring illegal aliens.
Cases against Doctors from DEA/Dept of Justice.
Mail Drop Search Form, from student financial aid website, identifies addresses that may be sources of non-legitimate solicitations.
Where to Write for Vital Records, from CDC; ; from Vitalrec.com.
Farm Subsidy Databasefrom Environmental Working Group.
UK Land Register (www.landregisteronline.gov.uk) search property records. Covers England and Wales.
Proviser (www.proviser.com) providesReal estate records in the UK.
192.com (www.192.com)UK people finder, searches directories and voter rolls. This now requires registration and small payment.
Database of UK Registered Charities (www.charitycommission.gov.uk)
Virgin Islands Recorder of Deeds Free index search covers 1999-present; fee for display.
Commercial search sources $$$
Reporter's Edge (www.reportersedge.com) people finder search for journalists (subscription).
Nexis.com (www.nexis.com)Depending on subscription, has property, jury decisions, judgements,bankruptcy, corporations and UCC filings from almost every state. Thereare also several states/counties/cities with civil or criminal records.EZ-FIND People Finder incorporates several credit header searches;military personnel search also available. Credit card payment option available.
Choicepoint Public Records: Autotrack (www.autotrackxp.com)Very good for complete Florida and Texas records, credit headersearches (Faces of the Nation), and some records in other states,including car registrations in 30 states and drivers in 22. Bestfeature: National profiles (basic or comprehensive) pull together allrecords on a person and associates by matching addresses, DOBs, etc.
KnowX (www.knowx.com)for when you want to.....This vendor offers searches of recordsincluding bankruptcies, liens, judgements, corportations, UCC filings,real estate, stock ownership, boats and planes..and more. Costs are perrecord (searching is free) and fairly reasonable. Now a Choicepointcompany.
Merlin Information Services (www.merlindata.com)Has a national flat fee service for a reasonable cost, including creditheaders, pilots, planes, death records, property, liens, judgements andbankruptcies. Also separate credit header searches with full SSNs.
Accurint (www.accurint.com)people finder/skip trace, UCC and real estate, Florida driver licenses,now some other states. Have also added some motor vehicle records,bankruptcies, liens. Profiles which find associates, family membersalso available. Low cost.
Axiom Insight has replaced the old FlatRateInfo database.
SearchSystems the subscription public records directory also has searches by state or county, account required.
Memphis Daily News (www.memphisdailynews.com) Memphis and Nashville public records . Their Rapsheets database no longer exists.
Backgroundchecks.com (www.backgroundchecks.com) Has national records searches and searches by state.
Legal Dockets Online $ (www.legaldockets.com/)subscription site, searches court dockets, rulings, and inmatedatabases. Has recently added property records, liens and recorded docs.
Public Records Blogs
Florida Databases:
Courtlinks have been updated. Since I'm no longer in, or helping cover,Florida, I will probably not be keeping the rest up (although I amchecking for corrections). Try the public records directories at top ofthis page to find other records, especially county records.)
Criminal/Courts (This section updated 2/28/08)
Florida FDLE Background Checks Online 24 hr/7 day instant access to criminal record. $23, by credit card.
Florida Corrections Offender Network searches of Florida inmates, recent releases, probationers, fugitives, and escapees.
Florida District Court of Appeals docket search.
Vinelink: Has Florida statewide search, and Palm Beach County separatly.
Search 20th Circuit Criminal Records . Includes Hendry, Collier, Lee, Glades and Charlotte Counties. Use ID: guest, and password: guest.
Alachua County Records online from 1999. Has civil search, recording index.
Brevard County Clerk of Courts search civil, criminal, traffic cases since 1999.
Broward County. Civil, criminal, probate and traffic cases. (New address 5/02).
Broward Arrest Records search for arrest records of all current inmates, from BSO Website; Broward civil Service of Process records search to find records of processes served. From BSO; BSO News Releases arrest, etc. information posted immediately online (new addresses 5/02);
Escambia County Clerk of Courts court records search is missing.
Highlands County Clerk of Courts civil searches since 1991 online.
Hillsborough County Arrest records; Who's in Jail in Hillsborough County? two searches from Hillsborough Sheriff's Dept.
Hillsborough County, FL court dockets; recording index and high-profile cases here.
Lee County Court Records .
Leon County civil, criminal, traffic, and other violations.
Manatee County Clerk of Courts has search of civil, criminal, traffic records.
Marion County Clerk of Courts Has searches of civil, criminal, probate, traffic, and public records.
Miami-Dade CountyCivil Court Search detail is available from 1984 on, but records goback to 1970 with partial detail. Images will not be available but they provide info on ordering.
Miami-Dade Criminal and Civil Infractions searches.
Miami-Dade Corrections: inmate search, includes photos.
(Miami Dade) Coral Gables, FL Police: Searches: Search incidents, arrests, citations, and crash reports, starting Jan '06.
Monroe CountyCourts search civil, criminal, traffic, probate (cases from 1996-), andOfficial Records (index from 1995, images from 1996).
Orange County, FL. Inmates
Court searches, Orange and Osceola Counties.
Osceola County civil, criminal, and traffic, case info and dockets.
Palm Beach civil and criminal court search.
Palm Beach Sheriff's Office Booking Blotter searchable by name.
Pinellas County records searches from Clerk of Courts, includes criminal, civil.
Pinellas County, FL Court searches: login as 'guest' for free access.
Polk County inmates and active warrant search .
Polk County Clerk: civil, deeds, public records.
Sarasota County civil courts; Criminal courts .
Seminole County Sheriff, has lists of felons, transients, sex offenders, etc.
Volusia County Court records search.
Miscellaneous:
Florida County Recording Indexes
My Florida Counties Florida county clerks' page has a unified search of all Florida counties (not complete yet but has most counties now).
Alachua County (Gainesville) from 1976. Images on recent filings.
Bay County (Panama City/Panhandle) from 1987, no images.
Brevard County from 1995, index only.
Broward County (index back to 1978, scans back to 1998)
Charlotte County images (not printable), back to 1977. Court searches available from Clerk of Courts for subscription.
Clay County with images, from 1983.
Escambia County> among menu items: recording index, back to 1982, some images.
Gadsden Official Records from 1985, no images.
Highlands County from 1983.
Lee County (Ft. Meyers) includes images.
Leon County (Tallahassee) Has images. Civil and Criminal filings are available here too.
Levy County index, from 1983; also has historical marriages.
Manatee County (Bradenton)has images, records back to 1979. Has plats, traffic and civil searches too.
Marion County back to 1991; images available.
Martin County back to at least 1986; some images available.
Miami Dade County index, most images available.
Monroe County Official Records index back to 1995, images from 1996 on.
Nassau County (Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach) index from 1983.
Orange County back to 1955; index only, no images.
Osceola County from 1986-, no images.
Palm Beach County now has images back to 1993.
Polk County with images, since 1990.
Sarasota County has images.
Seminole County from 1983.
Suwannee County
Volusia County documents from 1988-, images from 1996-.
Walton County (DeFuniak Springs, beaches - Seaside) from 1976; has images.
PROPERTY APPRAISER DATABASES:
Business, Charities, Professions (This section updated 3/1/08)
FloridaDivision of Corporations (www.sunbiz.org) Search for a corporation, federal tax liens, or fictitious name. Images of filings available; also daily filing downloads.
Florida Secured Transaction Registry: UCC Filings search (www.floridaucc.com) images also available.
Florida Licensee Search now includes alcohol & tobacco, hospitality licenses, occupational licenses, condo associations, yacht brokers, lots more.
Health Care Facility Locator at Floridahealthfinder.gov (hospitals, nursing homes, etc.
Database of Active Economic Crime Investigations from Fla. Atty General.
Department of Management Services lease database state-owned property and commercial leases.
Florida Gift Givers' Guide (http://app1.800helpfla.com/giftgiversguide/)financial records of organizations soliciting charitable contributions in Florida.
Department of Business and Professional Regulation (fcn.state.fl.us/dbpr) has license searches, see direct link above.
Medical Professions Search (http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/Profiling/index.html) Professional licenses in health professions, from Fla. Health Dept.
Broward County Business Tax Information Database
Monroe County business tax search
Palm Beach County business tax search
Florida Division of Licensing private investigators, security agents; Individual search.
Florida Board of Professional Engineers (www.fbpe.org/) license search now at MyFloridaLicense.
Notary Public Access System Search for a Florida licensed notary public.
Insurance Agent /Adjuster License Search from Florida Dept of Financial Services.
Florida Bar: Find a lawyer .
Workers Comp Databases (http://www.fldfs.com/wc/databases.html) Downloadable databases of providers, claims, compliance, now at Dept of Financial Services.
Florida Department of Insurance (www.doi.state.fl.us) has malpractice claims database.
Professional Liability Closed Claims from Dept of Financial Services.
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation: Company Search.
Florida Campaign Finance Database.
Marriages, etc. (This section updated 3/1/08)
Alachua County marriage records from 1837-1973.
Brevard County marriage records has searches of historical and nearly current licenses.
Escambia County marriage records, 1996-current.
Gadsden County.
Hernando County (up to 2002).
Lake County, from 2000-
Miami-Dade County marriage records, back to 2005.
Okaloosa County marriage records.
Sarasota County marriages.
Other counties here.
- Federal Elections Commission (herndon1.sdrdc.com/fecimg/query.html)
- CQ MoneyLine (formerly FECInfo)
- C-Span; Fundrace; Open Secrets.
- Florida Elections Division (election.dos.state.fl.us/campfin/cfindb.shtml)
- Other States (www.campaignfinance.org).
- Arizona Republic's Data Central uses Google Maps to map crime data, has useful databases of real estate, restaurant inspections, campaign finance, and more, with links to other Arizona public records.
- Sacramento Bee Investigations (CA), has a couple local databases and links to public records searches.
- Delaware Online from the News Journal (Wilmington). Has statewide property, nonprofits and state spending, and links to business licenses and corporations, lots more.
- Florida Today Watchdog Data Center has some local databases on animal violations, boating accidents and bridge violations, restaurant inspections and jail bookings from Brevard County, and some links to Florida and national databases.
- Gainesville (FL) Sun Watchdog: a local daycare search, links to local and state databases, courts, etc, stories, and a Watchdog Blog.
- Miami Herald (FL) Watchdog: searches of crimes, deaths, campaign contributions and home sales by address.
- Atlanta Journal Constitution Watchdog (GA): courts, property, campaign donors, nonprofits, professional licenses, and more.
- IndyStar Data Central Indianapolis and Indiana property records, public employee and crime databases, business, education, sports and more.
- Des Moines Register Watchdog (Iowa): includes a People Finder database that searches local public records, state salaries, million dollar homes, donors, crime, and lots more databases.
- Lexington Herald Journal (Kentucky.com) Info Center: handy page of direct search forms for lots of public records databases, and other search links.
- Courier-Journal Data Center (Louisville, KY): few public records searches but lots of statistics, and salaries, gambling,sex offenders and bridge inspection databases.
- Lansing State Journal: Data connection includes a database of Michigan state employees, real estate sales, campaign finance and disclosure.
- Twin Cities.com: Data Planet has links to lots of crime/courts searches, property searches, health care and general interest databases in Minnesota and the Twin Cities, from the Pioneer Press.
- Data Universe, Asbury Park Press (NJ) has property records, state employees, campaign contributions, teacher and consumer information databases.
- Courier-News Data Universe (NJ) has lots of searchable public records databases from New Jersey, including property, public employees, death records and much more. Identical to above?
- Star Ledger: New Jersey by the Numbers has property, crime, public payrolls, lots more.
- Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle: RocDocs. Mostly local interest databases but includes a few public records on crime, statewide and local real estate and school databases.
- Poughkeepsie Journal's Data Now (NY)includes boating accidents on the Hudson River, salaries, grants and campaign contributions.
- Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times: Database Warehouse, includes campaign contributions, local violations, bridges, inmates, lots of statistics.
- Data Center, Charlotte Observer (NC): has state employees' salaries database, Mecklenburg County crime, real estate, etc. and statewide campaign contributions, inmates, corporations.
- Plain Dealer Data Central (Cleveland, Ohio) including a Lebron James Statistical Bible and other sports databases, less searchable public records but lots of stats on real estate, schools, crime, and more, from dams to theaters.
- Cincinnati.com Data Center (OH) statistics and news related database, a few public records searches.
- Utah's Right to Know, public records databases including court records, public employee salaries, etc. from Salt Lake Tribune.
- Roanoke Times (VA): Datasphere local interest databases and public records like courts, lobbyists, medical professional discipline.
- Green Bay Press Gazette Datamine (Wisconsin): databases in all categories from business professionals to transportation (deer accidents, etc.)
- Data on Demand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: along with the usual, hunting accidents, dam and bridge inspections.
- Datamine, Appleton (WI) Post Crescent: lots of statewide databases, businesses, charities. Just added a state pardons search.
Courts and Criminal
Circuit courts.
Miscellaneous National/International Searches and Public Records Info
Find where/when Social Security Number was issued (from Searchbug). Or try SSN Watch, from Carnegie-Mellon.Commercial search sources $$$
Public Records Blogs
Florida Databases:
Courtlinks have been updated. Since I'm no longer in, or helping cover,Florida, I will probably not be keeping the rest up (although I amchecking for corrections). Try the public records directories at top ofthis page to find other records, especially county records.)
Criminal/Courts (This section updated 2/28/08)
Miscellaneous:
Business, Charities, Professions (This section updated 3/1/08)
Marriages, etc. (This section updated 3/1/08)
Essential Public Records and Directories
- Federal Elections Commission (herndon1.sdrdc.com/fecimg/query.html)
- CQ MoneyLine (formerly FECInfo)
- C-Span; Fundrace; Open Secrets.
- Florida Elections Division (election.dos.state.fl.us/campfin/cfindb.shtml)
- Other States (www.campaignfinance.org).
- Arizona Republic's Data Central uses Google Maps to map crime data, has useful databases of real estate, restaurant inspections, campaign finance, and more, with links to other Arizona public records.
- Sacramento Bee Investigations (CA), has a couple local databases and links to public records searches.
- Delaware Online from the News Journal (Wilmington). Has statewide property, nonprofits and state spending, and links to business licenses and corporations, lots more.
- Florida Today Watchdog Data Center has some local databases on animal violations, boating accidents and bridge violations, restaurant inspections and jail bookings from Brevard County, and some links to Florida and national databases.
- Gainesville (FL) Sun Watchdog: a local daycare search, links to local and state databases, courts, etc, stories, and a Watchdog Blog.
- Miami Herald (FL) Watchdog: searches of crimes, deaths, campaign contributions and home sales by address.
- Atlanta Journal Constitution Watchdog (GA): courts, property, campaign donors, nonprofits, professional licenses, and more.
- IndyStar Data Central Indianapolis and Indiana property records, public employee and crime databases, business, education, sports and more.
- Des Moines Register Watchdog (Iowa): includes a People Finder database that searches local public records, state salaries, million dollar homes, donors, crime, and lots more databases.
- Lexington Herald Journal (Kentucky.com) Info Center: handy page of direct search forms for lots of public records databases, and other search links.
- Courier-Journal Data Center (Louisville, KY): few public records searches but lots of statistics, and salaries, gambling,sex offenders and bridge inspection databases.
- Lansing State Journal: Data connection includes a database of Michigan state employees, real estate sales, campaign finance and disclosure.
- Twin Cities.com: Data Planet has links to lots of crime/courts searches, property searches, health care and general interest databases in Minnesota and the Twin Cities, from the Pioneer Press.
- Data Universe, Asbury Park Press (NJ) has property records, state employees, campaign contributions, teacher and consumer information databases.
- Courier-News Data Universe (NJ) has lots of searchable public records databases from New Jersey, including property, public employees, death records and much more. Identical to above?
- Star Ledger: New Jersey by the Numbers has property, crime, public payrolls, lots more.
- Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle: RocDocs. Mostly local interest databases but includes a few public records on crime, statewide and local real estate and school databases.
- Poughkeepsie Journal's Data Now (NY)includes boating accidents on the Hudson River, salaries, grants and campaign contributions.
- Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times: Database Warehouse, includes campaign contributions, local violations, bridges, inmates, lots of statistics.
- Data Center, Charlotte Observer (NC): has state employees' salaries database, Mecklenburg County crime, real estate, etc. and statewide campaign contributions, inmates, corporations.
- Plain Dealer Data Central (Cleveland, Ohio) including a Lebron James Statistical Bible and other sports databases, less searchable public records but lots of stats on real estate, schools, crime, and more, from dams to theaters.
- Cincinnati.com Data Center (OH) statistics and news related database, a few public records searches.
- Utah's Right to Know, public records databases including court records, public employee salaries, etc. from Salt Lake Tribune.
- Roanoke Times (VA): Datasphere local interest databases and public records like courts, lobbyists, medical professional discipline.
- Green Bay Press Gazette Datamine (Wisconsin): databases in all categories from business professionals to transportation (deer accidents, etc.)
- Data on Demand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: along with the usual, hunting accidents, dam and bridge inspections.
- Datamine, Appleton (WI) Post Crescent: lots of statewide databases, businesses, charities. Just added a state pardons search.
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Circuit courts.
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Find where/when Social Security Number was issued (from Searchbug). Or try SSN Watch, from Carnegie-Mellon.Commercial search sources $$$
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Florida Databases:
Courtlinks have been updated. Since I'm no longer in, or helping cover,Florida, I will probably not be keeping the rest up (although I amchecking for corrections). Try the public records directories at top ofthis page to find other records, especially county records.)
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The New Muslim PSA
Anil Potti Still Getting Huge Paychecks From Duke
Apparently the answer is something more than sully the reputation of the place and tarnish its crown jewel which is Duke medicine. Stay tuned, Potti is going to drag colleagues down with him, and undoubtedly administrators too who have tried to shield their star researcher.
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Modern Family Values: Burlington Man Charged With Concealing Mother's Death
Don Lee Wade is charged with Concealment of Death after admitting to investigators that he was aware of his mother's death since March 2010 and did nothing about it. Police say that Wade continued to gather her mail and began cashing her social security checks and using her debit card.
Last Wednesday, the Burlington Housing Authority notified police of a death at a home on North Ireland Street. The body of 94-year-old Lucy Mae Hutchins Wade was found in a decomposed state.
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Swift plant sued over treatment of Muslim workers
Federal officials say a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant should give Muslim employees prayer time and not retaliate against workers who ask to pray.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of more than 80 Somali Muslims.
A message left at JBS Swift's U.S. headquarters in Greeley wasn't immediately returned.
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Modern Family Values: Girl Flimed Tossing Live Puppies Into River.
.........warning...........if you are sensitive to animal abuse, don't go to this link. You may want to skip 4chan as well. If you to to 4chan, don't say you've not been warned.
According to Gawker,once users of 4chan's /b/ board got wind of the puppy abuser, they setout to find it and punish her. The video was posted to /b/ along withthe message "Find this dumb little bitch and throw her into a river" —and users now think they've found her Facebook profile and that of thedude who shot the video. /b/ is mounting a harassment campaignaccordingly — because clearly Internet-based vigilante justice meted outby noted assholes is the best way to eliminate cruelty to animals.
4chan's /b/ users made headlines earlier in the summer for bullying a child to tears, and though they appear to be turning their attentions to shaming animal abusers, this doesn't exactly make them saints. Frankly, if you're actually concerned about animal welfare,volunteer at your local shelter or something —
The Anil Poitti Report: Duke: Researcher fluffed up resume
Duke University officials confirmed Friday that one of their star researchers padded his credentials, but they'll wait to decide his fate until determining whether scientific findings may also have been manipulated............well, perhaps he does have a future as a fluffer ...........
Dr. Anil Potti, a cancer genetics researcher whose work has reaped more than $1 million in grants, has been on paid administrative leave since July, amid allegations that he falsely claimed to be a prestigious Rhodes scholar.In addition, other scientists have challenged Potti's research, igniting a scandal that has tarnished Duke. Potti has had to publish significant corrections to his work and faces continuing charges that his findings were not only wrong, but may have been deliberately embellished.
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News From The Brain Dead: Durham named No. 2 brainiest city
It all sounds thorough and scientific, but Triangle residents are advised not to get a big head over this report. A careful read finds that The Daily Beast lists North Carolina State University as being in the Durham-Chapel Hill metro, while the University of North Carolina is supposedly in the Raleigh-Cary MSA. Guess The Daily Beast missed the “a
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Future Health Care Is Now: Mother and baby fighting for life after doctors get into violent delivery room brawl
A mother and her newborn baby are in intensive care after a fight between doctors in the delivery room delayed the birth.
Laura Salpietro, 30, had been rushed to hospital after her waters broke, but as she lay on a bed in agony, doctors argued over whether to deliver her first child naturally or by caesarean.
Amazingly, the row then became violent, with punches thrown while her horrified husband Matteo Molonia, 37, looked on, pleading for the medics to stop and help his wife.
Nightmare: An Italian mother and her baby are both in critical condition at this hospital, the Messina Polyclinic in Sicily, after an argument between doctors delayed an emergency Caesarean
Officials said gynaecologist Vincenzo Benedetto and maternity unit doctor Antonio De Vivo had both been suspended from the Polyclinic Hospital in Messina, on the Italian island of Sicily, while the matter was investigated.
What is 'holding this President accountable' - and who determines what that means?
Today I came across a piece that really shows the problem the left and left-center have governing versus campaigning.
The slice of the LGBT blogosphere that has been critical of this President has been chastised early and often by Obama defenders for expressing our disappointment, frustration — and yes, anger — at the inaction, slow-go and even no-go behavior regarding LGBT issues. We are all well aware that Barack Obama held our prized issues — DADT, ENDA, DOMA, etc. — in high regard and stressed their priority to him when he was on the campaign trail. We also know what has happened in the last two years.
Dateline Statesville: Amateur NC ghost hunter looking for 'ghost train' hit and killed by real train
STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.
The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.
Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.
The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.
Duke Lacrosse Accuser in Jail Again
The woman who falsely accused DukeUniversity lacrosse players of rape has been taken back to jail,accused of violating a release agreement.
Multiple media outlets reported Thursday that Crystal GailMangum was taken into custody after court officials accused her ofviolating a visitation hours with her children.
Coming To YOUR TOWN: TAX ON BLOGGERS IN PHILLY, MAYOR DEFENDS
Suicidal Rick Sanchez Was Once Sick Of "Pansy Reporters”
In our second citation from a marvelous old Miami Herald profile of Rick Sanchez,the future CNN anchor is fuming about media coverage of his years-longpersonal relationship with Florida gangster Alberto San Pedro.
Details of the duo’s bromance surfaced when the underworld kingpinwas arrested—bribery, murder conspiracy, cocaine trafficking, etc.—andsecretly recorded conversations revealed how Sanchez was San Pedro’swingman. For more than two years, the recordings revealed, Sanchezallowed the hoodlum to pay for lavish dinners and $2000 nightclub tabs.Sanchez traded favors with San 
Pedro (pictured at left) and partied at his sprawling home, which was outfitted with bulletproof windows.
The resulting press criticism of Sanchez and his ethical lapses didnot please the TV personality, as he told Herald reporter Juan CarlosCoto:
“These pansy reporters who go around judging the peoplethat they write about have no business. I felt there were a lot ofreporters who hadn’t had enough life experience who wanted to know aboutit because they were getting a vicarious thrill from my experience.”
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Obviously it's time to nuke the bastards again..............
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Chatham County pastor facing deportation
A pastor who has spent 37 years in the United States is facing deportation to Mexico after immigration authorities arrested him because of a conviction 15 years ago.
Hector Villaneuva, 40, has a valid green card, his own parish, a wife, four children, two foster children he's in the process of adopting and a home in Chatham County.
Family and friends say he was living the American dream until immigration agents arrested him last week.
Villanueva had recently applied for U.S. citizenship, but he was denied after immigration officials discovered his conviction in California for commercial robbery.
Maybe The Muslims Aren't So Bad: Two Amish Men Face Incest, Bestiality Charges In Grant County
The men face charges involving at least six different family members and multiple animals.
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Woman's body left in hearse for more than a week
GRAHAM, N.C. — Authorities are investigating after an Orange County woman's body was left in a hearse for more than a week. Police found the body of 37-year-old Linda Walton last week while investigating the source of a foul odor in Graham.
The woman died earlier this month and her body was picked up by David B Lawson Mortuary, a licensed funeral director frequently used by police.
Does Anil Potti Work At The Maco Clinic? ..........Mayo Clinic finds "to their dismay" they've been researching the wrong cancer cells
It quickly became evident that the situation in their lab was common throughout the world. Up to half of the cell lines that were supposed to originate from patients with this rare thyroid cancer were either colon or melanoma cancer.
So, with the cooperation of many researchers nationwide, the Mayo researchers set out to create a new set of laboratory ATC cells, derived from tumors donated by patients.
In the Aug. 25 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the researchers report successful creation of four new ATC cell lines, each with a different set of molecular mutations driving this aggressive cancer. Survival for ATC patients is typically brief, three to four months on average, as illustrated by the speculated ATC diagnosis and death in 2005 of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist.
The researchers are sharing the new ATC cells with researchers internationally who need them, says the study's co-principal author, John Copland, Ph.D., a cancer biologist at the Mayo Clinic campus at Jacksonville.
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The Diversity Files: High School test 'slams' Christianity, lauds Islam
"To me, this was offensive because it's just so inappropriate and the timing of it was piss-poor," he added, referring to the debate over the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero.
The most troubling passage came from Daniel Roselle's "A World History: A Cultural Approach," observers said.
The passage reads: "Wherever they went, the Moslems [sic] brought with them their love of art, beauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that of western Christendom."
Meanwhile, an excerpt listing the common procedures used by Christian friars to introduce the religion in Latin America stated that "idols, temples and other material evidences of paganism [were] destroyed," and "Christian buildings [were] often constructed on sites of destroyed native temples" — and built with free Indian labor, to boot.
"I can see why some people might see these questions as skewed," said Mark MacWilliams, a religious-studies professor at St. Lawrence University in upstate Canton. "Why does the exam seem to have only documents that portray Islam as a religion of peace, civilization and refinement, while it includes documents about Christianity that show it was anything but peaceful in the Spanish conquest of the Americas?"
At the same time, MacWilliams criticized the presentation of Hernando Cortes' conquest of Mexico — which he said portrayed him as a "choirboy" rather than a "conquistador."
"It's quite a whitewash," he said.
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The Diversity Files: 4 decapitated bodies hung from bridge in Mexico
The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from abridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.
A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general's office of More los state said in a statement.
The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their fee tearly Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway for Mexico City residents.
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Zoning laws forbid man to build house on his lot so instead he opens up the land as a nature park for homeless people
An 84-year-old homeless man and his Rottweiler have set up camp on the property on Coburn Avenue in Skowhegan, a quiet residential street near downtown. A banner says, "Nature Park, Nature Trails for the Homeless People of Somerset County."
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Anil Potti Type Behavior At Harvard: Harvard Dean Confirms Misconduct in Hauser Investigation
FULL STORY...........and elitist educators want us to "trust science".................right............right............
Dear faculty colleagues,
No dean wants to see a member of the faculty found responsible for scientific misconduct, for such misconduct strikes at the core of our academic values. Thus, it is with great sadness that I confirm that Professor Marc Hauser was found solely responsible, after a thorough investigation by a faculty investigating committee, for eight instances of scientific misconduct under FAS [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] standards. The investigation was governed by our long-standing policies on professional conduct and shaped by the regulations of federal funding agencies. After careful review of the investigating committee's confidential report and opportunities for Professor Hauser to respond, I accepted the committee's findings and immediately moved to fulfill our obligations to the funding agencies and scientific community and to impose appropriate sanctions.
Harvard, like every major research institution, takes a finding of scientific misconduct extremely seriously and imposes consequential sanctions on individuals found to have committed scientific misconduct. Rigid adherence to the scientific method and scrupulous attention to the integrity of research results are values we expect in every one of our faculty, students, and staff.
In brief, when allegations of scientific misconduct arise, the FAS Standing Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC) is charged with beginning a process of inquiry into the allegations. The inquiry phase is followed by an investigation phase that is conducted by an impartial committee of qualified, tenured faculty (the investigating committee), provided that the dean, advised by the CPC, believes the allegations warrant further investigation. The work of the investigating committee as well as its final report are considered confidential to protect both the individuals who made the allegations and those who assisted in the investigation. Our investigative process will not succeed if individuals do not have complete confidence that their identities can be protected throughout the process and after the findings are reported to the appropriate agencies. Furthermore, when the allegations concern research involving federal funding, funding agency regulations govern our processes during the investigation and our obligations after our investigation is complete. (For example, federal regulations impose an ongoing obligation to protect the identities of those who provided assistance to the investigation.) When the investigation phase is complete, the investigating committee produces a confidential report describing their activity and their findings. The response of the accused to this report and the report itself are considered by the dean, who then decides whether to accept the findings, and in the case of a finding of misconduct, determine the sanctions that are appropriate. This entire and extensive process was followed in the current case.
Since some of the research in the current case was supported by federal funds, the investigating committee's report and other supplemental material were submitted to the federal offices responsible for their own review, in accordance with federal regulations and FAS procedures. Our usual practice is not to publicly comment on such cases, one reason being to ensure the integrity of the government's review processes.
A key obligation in a scientific misconduct case is to correct any affected publications, and our confidentiality policies do not conflict with this obligation. In this case, after accepting the findings of the committee, I immediately moved to have the record corrected for those papers that were called into question by the investigation. The committee's report indicated that three publications needed to be corrected or retracted, and this is now a matter of public record. To date, the paper, "Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins," Cognition 86, B15-B22 (2002) has been retracted because the data produced in the published experiments did not support the published findings; and a correction was published to the paper, "Rhesus monkeys correctly read the goal-relevant gestures of a human agent," Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274, 1913-1918 (2007). The authors continue to work with the editors of the third publication, "The perception of rational, goal-directed action in nonhuman primates," Science 317, 1402-1405 (2007). As we reported to one of these editors, the investigating committee found problems with respect to the three publications mentioned previously, and five other studies that either did not result in publications or where the problems were corrected prior to publication. While different issues were detected for the studies reviewed, overall, the experiments reported were designed and conducted, but there were problems involving data acquisition, data analysis, data retention, and the reporting of research methodologies and results.
Beyond these responsibilities to the funding agencies and the scientific community, Harvard considers confidential the specific sanctions applied to anyone found responsible for scientific misconduct. However, to enlighten those unfamiliar with the available sanctions, options in findings of scientific misconduct include involuntary leave, the imposition of additional oversight on a faculty member's research lab, and appropriately severe restrictions on a faculty member's ability to apply for research grants, to admit graduate students, and to supervise undergraduate research. To ensure compliance with the imposed sanctions, those within Harvard with oversight of the affected activities are informed of the sanctions that fall within their administrative responsibilities.
As should be clear from this letter, I have a deeply rooted faith in our process and the shared values upon which it is founded. Nonetheless, it is healthy to review periodically our long-standing practices. Consequently, I will form a faculty committee this fall to reaffirm or recommend changes to the communication and confidentiality practices associated with the conclusion of cases involving allegations of professional misconduct. To be clear, I will ask the committee to consider our policies covering all professional misconduct cases and not comment solely on the current scientific misconduct case.
In summary, Harvard has completed its investigation of the several allegations in the current case and does not anticipate making any additional findings, statements, or corrections to the scientific record with respect to those allegations. This does not mean, however, that others outside Harvard have completed their reviews. In particular, Harvard continues to cooperate with all federal inquiries into this matter by the PHS Office of Research Integrity, the NSF Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Respectfully yours,
Michael D. Smith
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Football Coach Fired for Anti-Obama Song
A Tennessee middle school football coach said he got fired after he wrote a song that criticized President Obama.
Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”
It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.
And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.
“The coach called me and said parents were upset – that I was being politically incorrect and the song had racial overtones,” Glover told FOX News Radio. “An hour and a half later I was told I was being terminated.”
“I was informed that I was being let go because of the song,” he said, denying claims there were any racial overtones in the song.
Williamson County School Superintendent Mike Looney disputed Glover’s account and said his dismissal had nothing to do with the song.
“Absolutely not,” he told FOX News Radio. “That’s a false claim.”
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Brad Pitt Wants To Kill Americans
Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP.
The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gushed millions of gallons of oil into the ocean.
He was speaking in a documentary due to be screened in the US tomorrow tonight.
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The Diversity Files: Mexican Police Help Murder Their Own Mayor
The killers came for Mayor Cavazos in the early hours of Aug. 16 when seven SUV's rolled up and men in police uniforms descended on his palatial home. Servants stood back terrified, as their boss was forced away at gunpoint. On Aug. 18, his corpse was dumped on a nearby road. There was a mercy of sorts in the manner of his killing - shot dead with two bullets in the head and one in the chest, and spared the mutilation and rape inflicted on so many other victims. The following day, hundreds of residents wept over his coffin in Santiago's central plaza, lining the stairs up to the church with candles and holding signs calling for peace. (See pictures of Culiac[a {a}]n, the home of Mexico's drug-trafficking industry.)
Then on Aug. 20, more disturbing news broke. State agents arrested six of the mayor's own police officers and said they confessed to involvement in the murder. The suspects had been working for a drug cartel that is fighting a bloody turf war with its rival throughout northeast Mexico, state prosecutors said. Another four alleged gunmen were arrested with automatic rifles and grenade launchers in their possession and accused of being involved in the plot. The revelation had very concerning implications: in Mexico's drug war, officials are now killing officials.
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Michael Moore hails suspect in WikiLeaks expose
Filmmaker Michael Moore is praising an Army private suspected ofreleasing classified war records to WikiLeaks and said he wouldcontribute to his defense.
Moore said he considers Pfc. Bradley Manning a courageous patriot for exposing what Moore called “war crimes.”
The controversial filmmaker said he will contribute to a legaldefense fund for the 22-year-old former intelligence analyst, who facesup to 52 years in prison.
Micheal Moores' biggest fan gives him a hand.......
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What is real jobless rate in N.C.? Try 17.8%
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - North Carolina’s unemployment rate fell below 10 percent for the first time since February 2009 in July, yet 35,000 fewer people were part of the state’s work force. So how is it that the jobless rate declined?
And what is the jobless rate if factors such as “discouraged workers” – the term used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to define people no longer looking for work - or are underemployed are counted? Also added to this group are what the BLS calls “marginally attached” workers – people who are neither working nor seeking work but hope to get a job and have worked within the past year.
As of June 30, that rate as 17.8 percent.
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AP Memo To Reporters, Editors: Don't Use 'Ground Zero Mosque' Construction
We should continue to avoid the phrase "ground zero mosque" or "mosque at ground zero" on all platforms. (We've very rarely used this wording, except in slugs, though we sometimes see other news sources using the term.) The site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque is not at ground zero, but two blocks away in a busy commercial area. We should continue to say it's "near" ground zero, or two blocks away.
We can refer to the project as a mosque, or as a proposed Islamic center that includes a mosque.
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Orange County agencies drill for school emergencies
Orange County law enforcement agencies and emergency medical workers held a training exercise Saturday to prepare for emergencies at schools.
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Foreign Objects Medically Removed From Rectums Of Chapel Hill Residents
This weekend I had an unusual case. The urologist wanted to remove a crochet needle from a 23 year old female's bladder. Yes, a crochet needle, the type with the little hook on the end. It was bright green and easy to find. Got there by "accident".
Bob Etheridge Challanger Ellmers demands a debate: Who Will Bob Etheridge Assault Now?
Republican congressional candidate ReneeEllmers, fresh off an endorsement from Sarah Palin, threw a debatechallenge out to opponent U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge.
TheFacebook endorsement from Palin on Wednesday appeared to energizeEllmers' campaign and led Etheridge, a Lillington Democrat, to say thatvoters should expect Ellmers would take orders from Palin.
Ellmers,a Dunn resident, came back Thursday with: "Congressman Etheridge hasbeen taking his instructions on job creation from Barack Obama and NancyPelosi.
Ann Coulter to Headline 'Homocon 2010' Representing Gay Conservatives
Ann Coulter will headline the first annual “Homocon 2010,” an event sponsored by GOProud that “represents gay conservatives and their allies,” according to NYDailyNews.com. And for this, the conservative commentator gets dropped from WorldNetDaily’s upcoming “Taking America Back.”
Editor and CEO of WND, Joseph Farah, does not stand in line with Coulter’s compromises.
A rash of residential break-ins in the area this month has left Chapel Hill Police perplexed
From Aug. 1-17, there were 20 break-ins in Chapel Hill, including 12 in which force was used to enter the home and eight in which suspects came in through an unlocked door or window.
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"Hate" Blogger Convicted of Threats After Three Trials
Three trials later, authorities have finally won a criminal conviction against Hal Turner, the New Jersey hate blogger charged with threatening to kill federal appeals court judges.
Turner was convicted in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday of threatening to assault or murder a federal official or judge, and faces a maximum 10-year prison term under the law, with a likely 10 to 16 months under federal sentencing guidelines. His sentencing date has not been set.
He blogged at turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com that the three judges of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals should be “killed” for upholding a Chicago handgun ban last year.
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Build a New Mosque on Ground Zero - full steam ahead. A Cross On A Highway For Dead Cops? SCREW YOU AMERICA
The ruling reverses a 2007 decision by afederal district judge that said the crosses communicate a secularmessage about deaths and were not a public endorsement of religion. It'sthe latest in a recent rash of mixed-bag rulings on the public use ofcrosses.
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Honest Injun: Seneca Nation wants Bloomberg out over ‘cowboy hat and a shotgun’ comment
A Native American tribe is calling on New YorkCity Mayor Michael Bloomberg to either apologize or resign after hesaid on a radio show that Gov. David Paterson — who’s trying to rustleup millions in cigarette taxes from the tribes — should grab “a cowboy hat and a shotgun” and demand the money
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Our Hero: Dr. Hugh Tilson
Atlanta — A part-time professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was arrested last week at an Atlanta airport and charged with indecent exposure.
Dr. Hugh Tilson, 67, an epidemiologist and researcher was arrested inside a bathroom at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Last week, undercover police staked out the bathroom as part of a month-long operation. Authorities said the airport has earned a global reputation as a place where men pick up other men.
"We have found Web sites where people have mentioned meeting at Hartsfield-Jackson," Atlanta police Maj. Darryl Tolleson said.
Tilson was one of a dozen men arrested during the operation.
Tilson bonded out after his arrest and is still on staff at UNC-Chapel Hil, where he has worked as a clinical professor since 1979. He administers the grand rounds program at the School of Public Health.
In a statement released Monday afternoon, the university declined to comment on the case, citing personnel issues.
"The university takes the charges seriously," the statement read. "We think it is important to let the Georgia judicial system resolve the case."
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