Background History Check | Background Check News for 03/17/2010



Plainfield Township approves background check policy, but debate who it should apply to (The Grand Rapids Press)
Treasurer Jim Stover said vendors of the township-sponsored farmers market should be checked on the sex offender registries, but others disagreed...

Larry's Gun Shop owner helped buyers avoid background checks, say witnesses (Mobile Press-Register)
Three witnesses testified Tuesday that the man who owned a Mobile gun store helped them evade background checks that would have barred them from buying firearms...

Larry's Gun Shop owner helped buyers avoid background checks, say witnesses - al.com (blog)

Press-Register - al.com (blog)

Larry's Gun Shop owner helped buyers avoid background checks, say witnesses
al.com (blog)
Three witnesses testified Tuesday that the man who owned a Mobile gun store helped them evade background checks that would have barred them from buying .
Mobile gun shop owners appear in courtWALA-TV FOX10
Mobile gun shop owner goes on trial for violating federal gun lawsal.com (blog)

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Find out what your lawmaker is up to in D.C. (Salem Statesman Journal)
Here are 10 things you can learn online: 1. Who is your representative? Using your ZIP code, you can check Project Vote Smarts Web site, www.vote-smart.org, for the names of your lawmakers. 2. Whats your lawmakers background? Web sites for the Senate, www.senate.gov, and House of Representatives, www.house.gov, have ...

Missouri House pushes for looser concealed weapon regulations (Columbia Missourian)
JEFFERSON CITY EUR” The Missouri House has endorsed legislation lowering the minimum age for carrying concealed weapons to 21. Missouri currently requires people be at least 23 years old, clear a background check and pass a firearms training course to get a concealed weapon permit. The legislation also would cap the fee sheriffs can charge for making changes to existing concealed weapon permits ...

Plympton chief picked as Duxburys new top cop (The Patriot Ledger)
Plympton Police Chief Matthew M. Clancy has been selected as Duxburys next police chief, Town Manager Richard MacDonald said Tuesday. He still must finalize the contract and pass a background check and physical exam, before assuming the post...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear JPL background check case (La CaƱada Valley Sun)
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

High Court Accepts Background-Check Case - Education Week News

High Court Accepts Background-Check Case
Education Week News
That, in turn, led to a requirement that all federal contractors undergo background checks. When the US Department of Education implemented the policy, .

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Plainfield Township approves background check policy, but debate who it should . - MLive.com

Plainfield Township approves background check policy, but debate who it should .
MLive.com
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP -- After months of tweaks, a background check policy won approval from the Township Board this .

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House Considers Background Check Bill - Central Florida News 13

Central Florida News 13

House Considers Background Check Bill
Central Florida News 13
On Tuesday, the state House took up a bill that would make it mandatory to pass a federal background check before you can begin working as a caregiver. .

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Trial begins for Mobile gun dealers accused of bypassing background checks (Mobile Press-Register)
David Bridges went to Larry's Sporting Goods & Gun Shop in January 2008 to buy a gun and paid the Mobile store $650 for a Glock semiautomatic pistol. When a criminal background check halted the purchase because of a prior drug conviction, Bridges testified in Mobile's federal court today, the store gave him permission to put the purchase in his girlfriend's name...

Bad Credit Derails Job Seekers - Wall Street Journal

Baltimore Sun

Bad Credit Derails Job Seekers
Wall Street Journal
Legend Financial Advisors Inc., which has about 20 full-time employees, conducts a background check that includes credit for all new job finalists, .
Is your debt putting your job at risk?KOAM-TV
Bad credit is blocking people getting jobsBaltimore Sun
Is credit check pertinent to job?News & Observer

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Gun show background check bill defeated - Review Messenger

Gun show background check bill defeated
Review Messenger
Michael Paymar (DFL-St. Paul), HF2960 would prohibit the sale of a firearm at a gun show without conducting a background check on the buyer. .

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Gun buyers say owner of Mobile gun store helped them evade background checks (Mobile Press-Register)
A trio of customers shopping at a gun store here testified today that the owner helped them evade background checks that barred them from having firearms...

Criminals need not apply! Renters to face background checks - ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)

Criminals need not apply! Renters to face background checks
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Gray Development, which has 11 multi-housing properties across the Valley, will now be conducting criminal background checks on potential renters. .

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GOP senators want to see Obama administration's Aponte background check - Daily Caller

GOP senators want to see Obama administration's Aponte background check
Daily Caller
The results of that background check are what DeMint and the other minority members of the committee are after. Normal procedure is for one senator from .

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Pentagon Shooting: Truth Is Stranger than Fiction - Huffington Post (blog)

Boston Globe

Pentagon Shooting: Truth Is Stranger than Fiction
Huffington Post (blog)
Because there is no national law requiring a criminal background check for all gun sales in the United States, including private sales in 33 States and at .
Paranoid Pentagon Shooter Obtains Firearm Through Gun Show LoopholeOpposing Views
Pentagon Shooter Exploited Gun-Show LoopholeThe Washington Independent
Official: Gun in Pentagon shooting was once in police possessionCNN
Kansas City Star (blog) -The Crime Report -Washington Post
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FL House takes up fed background check bill (Bay News 9 Tampa Bay)
Lawmakers opened the door for volunteers to be exempt from the mandatory background checks...

Background check missed suspect's prison stay (CNN)
A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire Tuesday on his co-workers turned up no criminal record, even though he apparently served five years in prison...

Court will decide if NASA checks can continue - The Associated Press

Court will decide if NASA checks can continue
The Associated Press
To obtain the new cards, workers have to be fingerprinted, undergo a background check and sign a waiver allowing federal investigators access to personal .
High court to rule on federal background probesSan Francisco Chronicle
Supreme Court Case Tests Limits of Privacy and Background ChecksHR.BLR.com
US Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Background Screening CaseSecurity Management
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