8 University of Colorado temps on paid leave for background check

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Eight temporary University of Colorado employees referred by a mental-health agency are on paid leave after 1 of that program's former participants was accused of attacking a student with a knife.

University spokesman Bronson Hilliard says the school hopes they can return to work if background checks find no violent crimes.

Background Checks For The General Public

Your child's soccer coach, your landscaper, the handyman? Do you know who these people are?

"There are essentially unhealthy people out there, predators that come into our lives looking like and acting like they're just good natured people," said security expert, Robert Siciliano. So to be sure you know who you're dealing with, take your own precautions.

"People are realizing their personal security and they're becoming much more responsible by getting background checks done," said Siciliano.

For years, major companies have used background checks to look into prospective employees. But these days, business from the general public is booming at services like my-background-check-dot-com where you need only a few bits of information to research somebody without their knowledge.

New Law Eliminates Waiting Period For Gun In Missouri

A new Missouri law makes it faster and easier than ever to get a gun. Backers say it just cuts through red tape. Gun control advocates say it's not a huge change, but believe lawmakers should have spent taxpayer dollars making more important revisions.

"Let's say there's a person who has an issue where they're in fear for their life and they need to get a gun fairly quickly," says Michael Meyer, of the St. Louis Association of Firearms Training Instructors. "If they had to wait ten days, that may be too late."

Now when you walk in a gun store, you can walk out with a gun, in minutes not days.

"It makes it fair as far as protection," Meyer says. "You won't be a victim."

Meyer says the law change does not mean Missouri is going soft on gun control, but simply cutting through red tape, and a duplication of background checks.