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A housing illustration
Housing
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

From relief to despair, one Pa. family struggles with the ambiguity of federal eviction ban

In Pa., it’s up to individual courts in counties to decide how to interpret the federal order. With debts mounting, renters lives are in limbo, and relief is only temporary.

5 years ago

DOC commissioner Marcus Hicks told Senate committee Thursday that department has committed to improving the conditions at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. (Courtesy of NJ Legislature)
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

N.J. agrees to settlement over allegations of long-term sexual abuse at women’s prison

The DOJ report, the result of an investigation that began in April 2018, found systemic problems at Mahan that allow sexual abuse to occur undetected and undeterred.

5 years ago

Ships and barges are idle in the middle of the Delaware River between Chester, Pa., and Wilmington, Del. (Chris Gardner/AP Photo)
Delaware
Environment

Big Oil should pay for climate change damage, Delaware lawsuit says

Citing the long-term economic damage climate change has done and will continue to do, the state is suing 31 of the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump
Elections
Politics

Trump releases list of 20 new possible Supreme Court picks

The list includes a trio of conservative Republican senators: Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri — all potential 2024 Republican candidates.

5 years ago

Housing
New Jersey

N.J. investigators issue 100 violations for housing discrimination

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says they found many ads saying people with Section 8 or state rental assistance shouldn’t bother applying.

5 years ago

A resident is pictured using a wheelchair inside a nursing home.
Aging
New Jersey
Public Health
NBC10

N.J. nursing home where 17 bodies were stuffed into morgue hit with lawsuit

The lawsuit against Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center I and II alleges that the facilities did not take the proper precautions to keep residents safe from coronavirus

5 years ago

This file photo shows the gun archive in the Philadelphia Police Department's Forensic Science Center office, which holds hundreds of firearms of all types and caliber sizes. (Abdul Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Could bringing back ‘gun court’ help abate gun violence in Philly?

During City Council’s Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention hearing Tuesday, a judge pitched "gun court" as a way to reduce shootings.

5 years ago

FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. James said on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 that she will impanel a grand jury to look into the death of Daniel Prude. Prude, 41, apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester, N.Y. were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Rochester police leaders retire after suffocation death

Top police leaders in Rochester are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, Mayor Lovely Warren said Tuesday.

5 years ago

Point Pleasant Beach, NJ (Google Earth image)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Safety

2 injured in stabbing on N.J. beach

Two men were stabbed on the beach in Point Pleasant Beach on Monday afternoon, authorities said.

5 years ago

police car lights flashing
Pennsylvania
Policing
NBC10

Bethlehem, Pa., police chief retires after offensive Facebook post share

The mayor of Bethlehem said in a statement that Chief Mark DiLuzio's retirement "is a result of the consequences of his recent re-posting of an offensive Facebook post.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw
Philadelphia
Policing

Philly Police: Homicide clearance rate on the decline as murder rates rise

Police are arresting suspects for less than half of the city’s homicides and shooting victims are getting younger, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

5 years ago

An investigator works at a scene where a man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Ore., last week was killed as investigators moved in to arrest him in Lacey, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. Michael Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him in Lacey, a senior Justice Department official said. (AP Photo/Ted Warren)
National
Policing

Slain shooting suspect was a regular at Portland protests

Reinoehl was himself killed Thursday when he pulled a gun as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him near Lacey, Washington, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

5 years ago

Protesters gather near a memorial to Daniel Prude at the site of his death, Thursday, Sept. 3. 2020 in Rochester, N.Y. Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died March 30, 2020. His family took him off life support seven days after Rochester police officers encountered him running naked through the street, put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
National
Policing

Rochester mayor suspends officers involved in man’s suffocation death

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced the suspensions at a news conference amid criticism that the city kept quiet about Daniel Prude's death for months.

5 years ago

(Dan Gleiter / PENNLIVE)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Policing
Spotlight PA

Pa. inspector general reviewing legality of some state police traffic stops, searches

The Inspector General is conducting a review of whether Pennsylvania State Police troopers are following the law when initiating traffic stops and then searching vehicles.

5 years ago

A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Museum, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and Future History Now, a youth organization that focuses on mural projects. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Lawyer: Plea offer implicated Breonna Taylor in drug ring

“Why would they put her name on there?” Aguiar, the lawyer for Taylor's family, said in a statement sent to news media. “It’s outrageous.”

5 years ago

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