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Courts & Law

SCI Pittsburgh on the North Side opened in 1826. (Megan Harris / WESA)
Pennsylvania
Policing
Public Health
PA Post

Pa. Corrections Dept. takes steps to stop spread of coronavirus at prisons

The department said it will review the possibility of allowing families and prisoner advocates to resume visits after 14 days. 

6 years ago

(PennLive file photo/The Patriot-News)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Protections for vulnerable Pa. seniors lag, reforms to guardianship system ‘stuck’

In Pennsylvania, there are about 18,400 adults living under guardianship. More than half are age 60 and up.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Police Department headquarters at 7th and Race streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Policing

Former Philly police inspector will stand trial on sexual assault charges

Chief Inspector Carl Holmes was arrested in October after an investigating grand jury recommended criminal charges against the veteran officer.

6 years ago

Monsignor William Lynn (AP Photo, file)
Religion
Social Justice

Msgr. Lynn on trial again for covering up clergy sexual abuse

Three years after a state appellate court overturned his conviction, Msgr. Lynn is scheduled to face a new jury, but the same charges of covering up clergy sex abuse.

6 years ago

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State Sen. Jack Walsh (left) holds his dog Maisey as he talks with State Rep. Mike Ramone at the Carousel Park Bark Park Wednesday morning. Both lawmakers sponsored a bill extending protections for dogs being kept outside. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware

New Delaware law sets time limit on keeping dogs tied up outside

Dogs in Delaware will get a little more free time off the leash under a new law signed by Gov. John Carney.

6 years ago

Clothing hangs to dry at a makeshift migrant camp for asylum seekers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on earlier this month. About 60,000 migrants live in filthy and dangerous conditions as they await their day in U.S. immigration court. (Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Immigration
National

U.S. Supreme Court allows ‘Remain in Mexico’ program to continue

The court will allow the White House's "Remain in Mexico" policy to stand across the entire southern border. The decision marks another immigration victory for Trump.

6 years ago

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the courthouse in Manhattan for a hearing last month. The jury convicted the disgraced Hollywood mogul of rape and sexual abuse after six women testified that Weinstein sexually assaulted them. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Criminal Justice
National

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison

His 20-year sentence for a criminal sexual act, the more serious of the two counts he was convicted of last month, is on the higher end of New York state's guidelines.

6 years ago

Cancer patient Judy Govatos, of Wilmington, is an advocate for allowing terminally ill people to end their lives with medical help. (Erin Reynolds/WHYY)
Delaware
Medicine

Medication assisted suicide gets broad support in Delaware poll

The survey of likely Delaware voters shows broad support for a bill allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication to patients with terminal illnesses.

6 years ago

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
Medicine

Abortion access before the Supreme Court

We look at the Louisiana abortion access case before the Supreme Court and discuss the arguments and legal challenges to reproductive rights.

Air Date: March 10, 2020 10:00 am

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Protestors with CeasefirePa gathered at Love Park in Philadelphia in August 2019 to stand against gun violence nationally and locally. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

The legal battle over Philadelphia’s lost gun reporting ordinance takes shape in court

The legal battle over Philadelphia’s long-dormant lost gun reporting ordinance begins to take shape in court.

6 years ago

Policer officers watch as a gunman is apprehended following a standoff Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Policing

Alleged gunman behind North Philly standoff held for trial on dozens more charges

During a hearing on Thursday, more than a dozen police officers testified about taking fire — and cover — during the hourslong standoff in Tioga.

6 years ago

State Police salute in Johnstown. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Policing

Pennsylvania State Police loosens ban on trooper arm tattoos

Before Wednesday's announcement, troopers could have tattoos, as long as they were not visible to the public.

6 years ago

Maureen Faulkner is the wife of the deceased Daniel Faulkner who was gunned down on 1300 block of Locust street in Philadelphia on December of 1981. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Policing

Senior judge to review widow’s petition in Mumia Abu-Jamal case

A senior judge will review whether the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office should step down from the latest appeal of former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

6 years ago

A YouTube compilation of skull breaker challenge videos. This is not the video involved in the New Jersey case. (YouTube)
Kids
New Jersey

N.J. middle schoolers charged with assault in TikTok ‘skull breaker challenge’

Footage of the viral “challenge” has circulated widely on TikTok and resulted in reports of serious injury around the world.

6 years ago

A man was arrested after more than an hour evading numerous police cruisers in Northeast Philadelphia. (NBC10)
Policing
NBC10

Police ID pantless, shirtless suspect in wild ambulance chase through Philly

A man who stole an ambulance and was shot three times while leading police on a wild chase through Philly was identified and is in critical condition, according to investigato

6 years ago

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