Due to the illness of Federal Judge William Yohn , jury selection will not resume until Monday, October 20th. This five-week break means that the man on trial Pennsylvania State Senator can, as he did this week, resume his legislative duties in Harrisburg. He had said earlier in the summer that he would not return [...]

Pennsylvania State Senator Vince Fumo plans to argue that he deleted office emails at the instuction of his former defense lawyer Richard Sprague. The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Sprague informed the senator that it was ok to destroy any emails that were not subpoened by federal prosecutors in February of 2005. In Fumo’s world, [...]

South Philadelphia power broker Vince Fumo goes on trial today in Federal Court. Jury selection is expected to last about a week, opening statements likely will begin on Sept. 15 and the trial could continue well into December. Why the long trial? A 139 count indictment that essentially says the Pennsylvania state senator used other people’s [...]

TITLE 18
PA CRIMES CODES
§6120. Limitation on the Regulation of Firearms and Ammunition.
(a) General rule. No county, municipality or township may in any manner regulate the lawful ownership, possession, transfer or transportation of firearms, ammunition or ammuni­tion components when carried or transported for purposes not prohibited by the laws of this commonwealth.
(a. l) No right [...]

The latest lawsuit alleges that Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services is “an unsafe agency for children” and calls for a federal court to appoint an independent trustee to oversee reforms. It is filed on behalf of 28,000 children who have at one time been under DHS supervision. The attorney David Mildenberg is from the same [...]

Five residents of the now burned out Riverwalk at the Millennium complex in Conshohocken are suing the developer, its builder, the property manager, and a subcontractor over last week’s fire. The class-action suit alleges that the parties were careless and did not take the proper safety precautions at the construction site.

Yesterday, prosecutors revealed a bit of their strategy in a request to the judge for permission to use “leading questions” on any hostile witness they call up.

Another blow for Vince Fumo. KYW is reporting that a computer staffer close to the indicted state senator from Philadelphia will plead guilty and cooperate with federal prosecutors.