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File photo: Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks with members of the media during a news conference, in Philadelphia, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Criminal Justice
Medicine
National
Public Health

States reach deal over marketing, safety of generic opioids

Josh Shapiro and other state attorneys general announced the deal Friday regarding Allergan's practices.

4 years ago

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the U.S.-Japan Economic Policy Consultative Committee (EPCC) at the State Department in Washington, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Tom Brenner/Pool Photo via AP)
Government
International
Law

Blinken presses Griner, Whelan deal in call with top Russian

Blinken did not provide details of Lavrov’s response to what he had previously called a “substantial proposal” for Russia to release the two.

4 years ago

Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. (Google Maps)
Kids
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Sesame Place facing $25 million racial discrimination civil lawsuit

Lawsuit alleges Black man and five-year-old daughter were shunned by costumed characters.

4 years ago

A table full of boxes of mail-in ballots is visible.
Elections
Government
Pennsylvania

Fate of 800 Pa. mail-in primary votes gets 1st court hearing

A Pa. court is considering the fate of some 800 mail-in primary votes that three county elections boards threw out over the lack of handwritten dates on their envelopes.

4 years ago

A viral video shows the Rosita character at Sesame Place refusing to interact with two Black children.
6abc

Law firm files class action lawsuit against Sesame Place following claims of racial bias

Malcolm Ruff, one of the attorneys, said they are representing a different family than the one seen in the most recent viral video.

4 years ago

File photo: A visitor prays at a memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in the Fourth of July mass shooting at the Highland Park War Memorial in Highland Park, Ill., Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Criminal Justice
Gun Violence
National

Highland Park Parade attack suspect indicted for murder, attempted murder

A grand jury has indicted the man accused of opening fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, on 117 felony counts.

4 years ago

Nala Williams, 8, looks up at a mural honoring George Floyd in the Third Ward, Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip
Black Lives Matter
Criminal Justice
Policing

Ex-cops Kueng, Thao sentenced for violating George Floyd’s rights

The jury found they deprived the 46-year-old Black man of medical care and failed to stop Derek Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes.

4 years ago

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)
Incarceration
International

In rare contact, U.S. offers Russia deal for Griner, Whelan

The Biden administration has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American Paul Whelan.

4 years ago

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner sits in a cage at a court room prior to a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
Incarceration
International
Sports

WNBA’s Griner says poor translation clouded arrest in Russia

Griner said that a language interpreter translated only a fraction of what was said during her questioning.

4 years ago

Sussex Correctional Institution (Google maps)
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Incarceration

‘Kicking, choking, splitting people’s heads up’: 39 incarcerated men join lawsuit claiming assaults by officers at Delaware prison

The civil rights lawsuit began in January with just two plaintiffs alleging assaults by one officer. The claims and number of officers have grown exponentially.

4 years ago

Protester holding a picture of Fanta Bility
Criminal Justice
Gun Violence
Pennsylvania
Policing

Attorneys representing ex-Sharon Hill police officers want manslaughter charges dismissed in Fanta Bility case

The defense is challenging whether the Delaware District Attorney’s Office produced enough evidence at the preliminary hearing to allow the case to go forward.

4 years ago

In this image from a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer's body-worn video camera, and contained in the statement of facts supporting an arrest warrant for Mark Ponder, Ponder strikes an officer with a pole on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Department of Justice via AP)
Criminal Justice
Government
National

Man’s 63-month prison term matches longest for Capitol riot

Ponder, a 56-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., asked the judge for mercy before she sentenced him to five years and three months in prison.

4 years ago

Alan William Byerly is seen attacking an Associated Press photographer during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
Crime
Pennsylvania

Pa. man admits to Jan. 6 attacks on police, AP photographer

In a deal with prosecutors, Alan Byerly, 55, admitted to wielding a stun gun while confronting officers who were trying to protect the Capitol from the angry mob.

4 years ago

Audra McCowan wants others to know she’s here to help them if they need it too. (Courtesy of McCowan)
Policing
Social Justice

Former Philly Cop Audra McCowan talks about her healing process and the aftermath of lawsuit against the city

One of the two women to win a sexual harassment judgment against former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross talks about her healing process.

4 years ago

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File photo: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Assistant District Attorney Jezreel Moore hold a news conference on the arrest of a woman who allegedly sold guns to minors. (6abc)
Crime
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
6abc

Woman bought handguns and sold them to minors, Philadelphia DA says

The D.A.'s office said one of the guns was used in a shooting.

4 years ago

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