Investigative & Forensics

Sierra Infonet Services has opened a new investigative division.

First Advantage, a risk mitigation service provider, has acquired Phoenix Research.

There are lies -- and then there are statistics. Sometimes they can be identical.

Ever get the feeling that someone has been lying to you? Those who attended last month's International Association of Special Investigation Units conference in Phoenix may just have had their suspicions confirmed.

Within the next 25 years, the gap between the supply of workers and the demand in the United States will grow to 35 million.

The narrow fringe comprising 17 percent of the contiguous land area of the United States is home to more than half of the nation's population.

The FBI is seeing a proliferation of web sites soliciting for charitable donations to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

From August 2000 to August 2005, the last month for which figures are available, employment in the insurance industry decreased by 42 percent.