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Rapper Meek Mill, (center), arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019.  (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Law
Philadelphia

Meek Mill and Pennsylvania parole reform

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill has been battling with the city’s criminal justice system for 12 years after he was arrested on gun and drug charges when he was 19.

Air Date: August 30, 2019

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File photo: In the distance, construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline at Raystown Lake Recreation Area in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. (StateImpact Pennsylvania/Lindsay Lazarski)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP fines Sunoco/Energy Transfer $313K for Mariner East construction violations

This latest assessment brings the total financial penalties assessed to the company for Mariner East construction to more than $13 million.

6 years ago

Cars and trucks parked in the bike lanes on Spruce and Pine streets force cyclists to take risky dodges into traffic.
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

A Philadelphia man is suing a delivery company and PPA for blocking bike lanes

A bicyclist is suing food distribution company Julius Silvert because its delivery trucks park in bike lanes. The Philadelphia Parking Authority is also named

6 years ago

The police lab can’t afford overtime anymore, per a memo from the DA’s office. It may cause the city to prosecute fewer low-level drug possession cases. (ShutterStock)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

DA: Philly police sat on 37,000 untested drug samples, prosecutions in ‘crisis’ mode

The police lab can’t afford overtime anymore, per a memo from the DA’s office. It may cause the city to prosecute fewer low-level drug possession cases.

6 years ago

John Patchcoski says he was raped as a child by a priest in Scranton. On Wednesday, he joined a group of other alleged victims in suing the diocese. (Screenshot of press conference)
Criminal Justice

Clergy abuse victims seeking justice find hope in new court decision

A recent Pennsylvania court ruling is breathing new life into old claims of childhood sexual assault in spite of state law that puts time limits on legal action.

6 years ago

New Jersey prison officials will move a transgender woman to the state's only female prison after winning a lawsuit against them. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
LGBTQ
New Jersey

N.J. to move transgender woman out of men’s prison after lawsuit

New Jersey prison officials will move a transgender woman to the state's only female prison after winning a lawsuit against them.

6 years ago

This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Addiction
Business
National

Opioid settlement would use a formula to split the money

The formulas would take into account the number of people in a given jurisdiction who misuse opioids, the number of overdose deaths and other factors.

6 years ago

Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, center, talks to reporters Aug. 28, 2019. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Pa. DOC recommends changes to monitoring parolees after recent homicides

The internal report follows a string of killings allegedly by people out on parole.

6 years ago

More states have been relying on such laws in an attempt to prevent gun deaths by allowing people to tell law enforcement about warning signs of potential violence. (Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)
New Jersey

New Jersey’s ‘red flag’ law to prevent gun violence takes effect this weekend

More states have been relying on such laws in an attempt to prevent gun deaths by allowing people to tell law enforcement about warning signs of potential violence.

6 years ago

This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Addiction
Business
National

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma negotiating settlement worth a reported $12B

Under the settlement, the Sackler family would give up ownership of the company and Purdue Pharma would supply its addiction treatment drugs free to the public.

6 years ago

Judge Thad Balkman arrives to give his decision in the Opioid Lawsuit in Norman, Okla., Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Balkman found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Public Health

Pa. counties encouraged by landmark J&J opioid decision in Oklahoma

Local attorneys hope the landmark Oklahoma decision against the powerhouse drug manufacturer will set a precedent for similar cases in Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

(<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-211322050/stock-photo-wooden-gavel-with-a-brass-band-resting-on-a-plinth-used-by-a-judge-or-auctioneer-and-conceptual-of.html?src=rj3D1iuyrYVhMrLjcKAD5g-1-53”>Photo</a> via ShutterStock)
Health Care
New Jersey

N.J. law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives back in effect

An N.J. court has overturned a ruling that put a controversial new law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with medical help on hold.

6 years ago

Rapper Meek Mill, (center), arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019.  (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Now free from legal limbo, Meek Mill eyes prison reform

Rapper Meek Mill has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge to resolve a case that's kept him on probation for most of his adult life.

6 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works, near Pittsburgh. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

‘We don’t understand why they haven’t done this yet’: Groups sue US Steel over emissions data

Lawsuit alleges company withheld required pollution data after Dec. 24 fire

6 years ago

In this Monday, July 8, 2019 file photo, Judge Thad Balkman speaks during Oklahoma's case blaming consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries for the state's opioid drug crisis, in Norman, Okla. (Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo, File)
Addiction
Business
Medicine

Judge rules against opioid-maker Johnson & Johnson, orders $572M payment

An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572M to clean up the problem.

6 years ago

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