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In this May 13, 2015, file photo, emergency personnel work near the wreckage of a New York City-bound Amtrak passenger train following a derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200 others in Philadelphia
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Transportation

First day of trial for Amtrak engineer focuses on key question: crime or terrible accident?

Prosecutors and defense attorneys laid out opposing perspectives on the line between an accident and a crime in the case of Brandon Bostian.

4 years ago

Keith Lewis disposes of used syringes at a needle exchange run by Camden Area Health Education Center in Camden, N.J., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

Johnson & Johnson, 3 major distributors finalize $26B landmark opioid settlement

It’s the largest settlement to date among the many opioid-related cases that have been playing out across the country.

4 years ago

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train derailment, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Philadelphia. The Amtrak train, headed to New York City, derailed and crashed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
History
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

The Amtrak 188 engineer is on trial after 7 years of debate. Here’s what to know about the deadly 2015 wreck in Frankford

Eight people were killed, and over 200 were injured.

4 years ago

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks from a podium, with President Biden to her right and Vice President Harris to her left
National
Race & Ethnicity

Biden introduces Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

The historic appointment aims to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries.

4 years ago

Overhead photo of the prison complex
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Incarceration

ACLU escalates Delaware prison lawsuit, says ‘physical abuse is the majority culture’

The civil rights organization sued Sussex Correctional Center in December on behalf of two detainees. Now 17 more current and former prisoners have joined the case.

4 years ago

FILE - In this image from police body camera video shown as evidence in court, Minneapolis police Officers Thomas Lane, left, and J. Alexander Kueng, second from right, gather information as they take George Floyd into custody outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis, on May 25, 2020. Former police Officers Tou Thao, Kueng and Lane are on trial in federal court accused of violating Floyd's civil rights as fellow Officer Derek Chauvin killed him. (Minneapolis Police Department via AP, File)
Black Lives Matter
Policing
Social Justice

3 ex-cops convicted of rights violations in Floyd killing

Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck.

4 years ago

File photo: Brandon Bostian, the engineer involved in the 2015 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, departs from the center for criminal justice in Philadelphia after a hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Law
Philadelphia
Transportation

Jury selected for trial of Amtrak engineer in deadly 2015 derailment

A jury has been chosen in the criminal trial of train engineer Brandon Bostian, 38, for his role in a deadly 2015 Amtrak derailment in North Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison prepares to leave the courtroom during a recess Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. Prosecutors begin their case against a the only officer charged, former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid
Black Lives Matter
Criminal Justice
National
Policing

Ex-officer in Breonna Taylor raid said he saw AR-15 fire

Brett Hankison is charged with wanton endangerment for shooting through Taylor’s apartment into the home of her neighbor.

4 years ago

A Pennsylvania Police Trooper vehicle
Pennsylvania
Policing
Spotlight PA

Pa. State Police push back on panel recommendation requiring independent investigations when troopers kill, injure

While PSP agreed to make changes or consider policy revisions based on an oversight committee’s recommendations, they did not give up the ability to investigate their own.

4 years ago

File photo: Attorney Mark Pomerantz arrives at Federal Court in New York, Aug. 12, 2002. Pomerantz, one of two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump, have suddenly resigned throwing the future of the probe into question
Government
Government Accountability
National

Prosecutors in charge of Trump criminal probe have resigned

The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump have suddenly resigned.

4 years ago

A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington in 2019.
(Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Public Health

Corporate opioid payouts now being finalized would top $32 billion

This comes as communities across the U.S. are scrambling for resources to combat an opioid crisis that keeps getting worse.

4 years ago

A police officer drives in Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Policing

‘This is absolute insanity’: Philly police union sues to strike down ‘Driving Equality’ law

The Fraternal Order of Police says the law is ‘wholly preempted’ by state law

4 years ago

Color image of a gavel in a courtroom.
Delaware
Law
Race & Ethnicity

New road map to improve diversity among Delaware lawyers, judges

Just 10.6% of Delaware judges are Black men or women, far below the state demographics, with Black residents making up 22% of the population.

4 years ago

Columnist E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court Tuesday Feb. 22, 2022, in New York. Carroll, who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him, will not seek to depose him prior to trial because it would cause unnecessary delay, but she added that a DNA sample was still being sought. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
Crime

Donald Trump’s DNA, not deposition sought in defamation suit

Carroll in a June 2019 book said Trump raped her in the mid-1990s in an upscale Manhattan department store.

4 years ago

Philadelphia police homicide Captain Jason speaks at a press conference
Crime
Gun Violence
Philadelphia

Philly police arrest man accused in series of carjackings and pair of murders

Jonathan Akubo has been arrested and charged with multiple carjackings and two murders after police traced back a car allegedly used in the crimes.

4 years ago

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