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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

A parishioner celebrates communion at the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court to hear arguments Wednesday over redactions in clergy sex abuse report

On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will weigh arguments over redactions in the explosive grand ...

7 years ago

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Kelly Williams carries a sign voicing support for legislation that would change the statute of limitations for child sex crimes, during a march in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. At right is her husband Brent. A proposal to give victims of child sexual abuse a two-year window to sue over allegations that would otherwise be too old to pursue was overwhelmingly approved by the state House on Monday, as supporters cheered from the gallery. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. House moves key amendment allowing retroactive child sex abuse suits

The state House has approved an amendment that would open a two-year window for child sex abuse victims to file ...

7 years ago

Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives advanced a measure to outlaw automatic deductions from state workers’ paychecks.debate.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

After months of waiting, gun protection bill up for a vote in Pa. House

The state House is expected to pass a proposal Tuesday making it hard ...

7 years ago

Lower Merion schools Superintendent Robert Copeland defends the district's budgeting practices during a 2016 school board meeting after a judge ruled that the district misled taxpayers. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

After another twist, Pa. Supreme Court to hear Lower Merion tax case

In 2016, an aviation attorney and Lower Merion resident sued his school district claiming it misrepresented its finances to secure a tax increase without voter approval.

7 years ago

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Students change classes at a public school in Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A new one-stop-shop for Pennsylvania education data

The data are assembled longitudinally, meaning you can track something — say a district’s graduation rate — from year to year.

7 years ago

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Linwood Bellamy (right) hands his son, Kareem Bellamy, 20, his lunch bag as he loads into the taxi that will take him to school. An increasing number of Philadelphia students are relying on cabs to transport them to and from school. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philly’s $40,000 cab ride, and what it says about modern, urban education

In spite of high costs and sketchy results, taxicabs are ferrying more and more Philadelphia students to school each year.

7 years ago

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State police will now be required to make more visits to schools. (AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. state police upping presence in certain schools

New rules will require more frequent visits to schools in areas that don't have their own police departments, and so they rely on state police for coverage.

7 years ago

Cells are shown at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa., an outlier in life-without-parole, faces growing push for change

Pennsylvania sentences more people to life in prison without the possibility of parole than any other state.

7 years ago

Mary McHale speaks at a press conference on recommendations by 40th Statewide Grand Jury, at the office of the Attorney General, in Norristown, PA, on Tuesday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

AG Shapiro, Pa. lawmakers push for action on grand jury recommendations following clergy sex abuse report

The grand jury report named 301 predator priests, but noted it had information on more than 400, and more than 1,000 victims in the state.

7 years ago

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The State Correctional Institution at Phoenix is in Collegeville. On its own, Pennsylvania sentences more prisoners to life terms than any country in the world. (Jacqueline Larma/AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania leads world in imposing life sentences

Life without parole applies automatically to first- and second-degree murder, and sometimes to third-degree murder.

7 years ago

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Toomey lauds Senate’s passage of sweeping opioid crisis legislation

The wide-ranging package known as the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 rolls up 70 bills that will be backed by about $5 billion in funding.

7 years ago

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Betsy DeVos decries attacks on campus speech in Philly lecture

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called out the nation’s universities Monday in a talk about campus free speech and the First Amendment.

7 years ago

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Pennsylvania state Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks,  says creating compensation funds is a step in the right direction, but retroactive lawsuits should be an option too. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. House likely to rally behind abuse protection bill; Senate still at-odds

One of the first things on the agenda when lawmakers return to Harrisburg this month will be a bill that makes it easier for people who w ...

7 years ago

Cells are shown at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

As Pa. overhauls prison book policies, inmates’ rights groups cry foul

All books will now have to go through the Department of Corrections.

7 years ago

Parishioners attend mass at the Cathedral Church of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown, Pa. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Precedent for possible criminal charges of Pa. Catholic leadership rooted in landmark Philly case

While scathing, last month’s grand jury report about clergy sex abuse in Pennsylvania was released with ...

7 years ago

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