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Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Safety

Police suspect high-end car theft ring after two chases on Long Beach Island

Police are warning Long Beach Island residents to be vigilant after the theft of a high-end vehicle and subsequent pursuits early Thursday.

5 years ago

U.S. Attorney Williams McSwain on Sept. 14, 2020. (Dan Lee/NBC10)
Government Accountability
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Treasurer indicted by feds for embezzlement, fired by city

The U.S. Attorney accused the Liberian-born treasurer of embezzlement and entering into a “sham” marriage to maintain residency.

5 years ago

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., questions Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. That took place in the run-up to her presidential bid. Now, she'll face the spotlight as her party's vice presidential nominee. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Politics

A candidate, not a prosecutor: Harris’ role in upcoming Supreme Court hearings

Kamala Harris made her reputation as a sharp, partisan questioner in Senate hearings. As a VP nominee, that may not be her approach in the next Supreme Court confirmation.

5 years ago

Kendall Stephens
Criminal Justice
LGBTQ
Billy Penn

Arrest in attack on Kendall Stephens, Black trans woman beat up in her Point Breeze home

There’s no hate crime charge — because queer and trans people aren’t a protected class in Pennsylvania.

5 years ago

A U.S. Capitol Police honor guard surrounds the flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as lies in state in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 in Washington. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)
National

Ginsburg makes history again, lying in state at Capitol

Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87, also will be the first Jewish-American to lie in state and just the second Supreme Court justice.

5 years ago

A sign promoting participation in the 2020 census is displayed as Selena Rides Horse enters information into a phone for a member of the Crow Indian Tribe in Lodge Grass, Mont. in August. (Matthew Brown/AP Photo)
NPR
National
Politics

Court orders census counting to continue through Oct. 31; appeal expected

After the Trump administration made last-minute changes to shorten the 2020 census schedule, a federal judge in California has ordered it to extend counting for another month.

5 years ago

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Delaware
Policing

New Delaware AG review finds no charges in 2015 police shooting of Jeremy McDole

Family and friends called for a new review into the death of Jeremy McDole, a Black man fatally shot in his wheelchair by Wilmington police five years ago.

5 years ago

People walk by the Pennsylvania Judicial Center Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg.
Keystone Crossroads
Gender
K-12
LGBTQ
Race & Ethnicity

Children bullied for race and gender now have broader leeway to sue in Pa.

In a case stemming from a brutal rape at a Philly school, the Pa. Supreme Court said minors deserve more time to bring discrimination lawsuits.

5 years ago

Protesters raise their hands as they march over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Breonna Taylor, a black woman, was fatally shot by police in her home in March.  (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Philadelphia
Policing

The Breonna Taylor decision and five times police have botched warrants in Philly

The police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville began with a routine search warrant gone tragically wrong. Philly is no stranger to similar tragedies.

5 years ago

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is shown in this 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Steven Senne
Energy
Environment
Sustainability
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Known for her record on women’s and civil rights, Justice Ginsburg also leaves an environmental legacy on the Supreme Court

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

5 years ago

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured in 2018, is seen as a front-runner to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. (Rachel Malehorn, rachelmalehorn.smugmug.com via AP)
NPR
Government Accountability
National

Who is Amy Coney Barrett, front-runner for Supreme Court nomination?

From guns and sexual assault on campus to health care and abortion rights, Barrett has shown herself to be a conservative jurist and legal thinker.

5 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden
Law
National
Politics

Progressives pledge to keep pushing Biden to expand court

Biden, who ran a relatively centrist primary campaign, hasn't embraced those calls, worried they may intensify the nation's partisan split.

5 years ago

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron addresses the media following the return of a grand jury investigation into the death of Breonna Taylor, in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Criminal Justice
Social Justice

In Breonna Taylor case, limits of law overcome calls for justice

The outcome demonstrates the vast disconnect between widespread public expectation of justice and the limits of the law when police use deadly force.

5 years ago

The interior of a New Jersey prison
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
Public Health
NJ Spotlight

‘Free thousands more inmates’: Advocates make push for relief from COVID in prisons

Fears of a second COVID wave are growing. Bill could affect more than 3,000 incarcerated.

5 years ago

Breonna Taylor
National
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

1 officer indicted in Breonna Taylor case; not for her death

Taylor, a Black emergency medical worker, was shot multiple times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation on March 13.

5 years ago

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