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Courts & Law

Hundreds of people march in New York in opposition to the Trump administration's plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally in Queens on Sunday. (Julius Constantine Motal/AP Photo)
NPR
Immigration

Trump’s nationwide immigration raids fail to materialize

In the cities where rumors of mass raids swirled, many immigrants stayed inside their homes, as jitters turned vibrant migrant markets and commercial corridors eerily quiet.

6 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

Prosecutor: Woman assaulted police after high speed chase out of Island Beach State Park

A 30-year-old woman is facing a slew of motor vehicle and criminal charges after a high speed chase Saturday in coastal Ocean County. 

6 years ago

(Nick Underwood/NPR)
NPR
Immigration

U.S. cities prepare for planned ICE raids

According to reports, ICE is prepared to target about 2,000 recently arrived migrant families.

6 years ago

(Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)
New Jersey

Ocean County to sue New Jersey over policy that limits cooperation with ICE

Ocean County officials are angered by a new attorney general directive limits how their jail staff can help identify undocumented immigrants.

6 years ago

Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia

At resentencing, former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah still gets 10 years

An appeals court decision gave former Philly Congressman Chaka Fattah a shot at less time in prison. In the end, he got the same punishment: 10 years.

6 years ago

Keith and Keren Byrne are pictured with their youngest child. (Courtesy of Keren Byrne)
Immigration
Law

ICE to deport Irish father-of-three after a decade in Montco

Keith Byrne has lived in Pennsylvania for more than a decade and could be deported any minute. He’s one of an estimated 50,000 unauthorized Irish immigrants in the U.S.

6 years ago

Listen 1:55
Lifeguard rescue torpedoes. (Public domain image)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Safety

Judge: Lifeguard can’t be sued over collision that broke woman’s nose

A New Jersey judge has ruled that a lifeguard who collided with a woman as he ran to cover a vacated lifeguard stand is protected by state's Good Samaritan Act.

6 years ago

Empty courtroom
Delaware
Race & Ethnicity

Some say ‘it’s time’ for person of color on Delaware Supreme Court

Delaware’s Supreme Court has never had a black, Latino or Asian American member. Some want Gov. Carney to “correct the record’ when filling a looming vacancy.

6 years ago

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(From left) Friends Olivia Corveleyn, Sienna Bucu and Abby Hagen, all of Union, at a protest in Freehold to demand the removal of Judges Troiano and Silva on July 11, 2019. (Nicholas Pugliese/WHYY)
Government Accountability
New Jersey

Protesters demand ouster of N.J. judges over handling of teen rape cases

Protesters gathered at the doorstep of Judge James Troiano, who is facing backlash for comments that a boy accused of rape is from a ‘good family.’

6 years ago

Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Health Care
Philadelphia

Hahnemann bankruptcy proceedings start slowly in Wilmington

The hearing on the overall closure plan is now scheduled for Friday, July 19.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro arrives at a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

AG Shapiro announces plan to better track guns used in crimes as violence soars in Pa.

The Pennsylvania attorney general's office launched an effort Thursday to improve the use of firearms databases, so law enforcement can better track guns used in crimes.

6 years ago

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal (Miguel Martinez for WHYY, file)
Immigration
New Jersey
Policing

N.J. county defends ICE agreement after rebuke from state AG

Forty out of nearly 8,000 inmates processed at the county jail in 2018 were found to be undocumented immigrants and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

6 years ago

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks during a news conference, in New York, Monday, July 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Sex & Relationships

Jeffrey Epstein and sex trafficking

First we hear from journalist Vicky Ward about covering Jeffrey Epstein for almost two decades. Then, how to fight the scourge of sex trafficking and support it's victims.

Air Date: July 11, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Demonstrators pass by the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington D.C. Saturday afternoon during the March for Our Lives. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
National
Politics

U.S. appeals court sides with Trump in lawsuit involving hotel

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling of a federal judge in Maryland who said the lawsuit could move forward.

6 years ago

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that President Trump cannot block people he disagrees with from his Twitter account. Above, Trump's Twitter feed is seen on June 27. (J. David Ake/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability

U.S. Appeals Court rules Trump violated First Amendment by blocking Twitter followers

A federal appeals court in Manhattan says President Trump cannot block critics from his Twitter account, calling it "unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination."

6 years ago

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