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A white bike marks the corner at 11th and Spruce streets where cyclist Emily Fredricks was killed in 2017 (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Driver could face jail time for death of Center City cyclist

The truck driver who hit and killed Emily Fredricks, a 24-year-old pastry chef riding to work on a Spruce Street bike lane in 2017, could face prison time.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Corrections Department mail inspector Brian Strawser sorts inmate mail at Camp Hill state prison in Camp Hill, Pa.
The Why
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Handling priority mail: Pennsylvania’s prison mail controversy

The controversy has raised the question of what takes precedent: the safety and security of prisons or the protection of attorney-client privilege?

Air Date: February 27, 2019

Listen 12:44
Migrant teens walk in a line at a shelter for unaccompanied children, on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)
Immigration
Kids
Public Safety

Nearly 6,000 abuse complaints at migrant children shelters

Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years.

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
Public Safety
Transportation

Philadelphia drivers rarely prosecuted for crashes that kill pedestrians, cyclists

Only a fraction of drivers in crashes that kill pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists ever face serious criminal charges.

6 years ago

Bill Baroni leaves the Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to reporters outside of Federal Courthouse after a court appearance, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Politics

Bill Baroni, former N.J. official convicted in Bridgegate case, gets 18 months in prison

The aide to former Gov. Chris Christie was resentenced in federal court after a federal appeals court last year threw out two of the seven charges against him.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Corrections Department mail inspector Brian Strawser sorts inmate mail at Camp Hill state prison in Camp Hill, Pa.
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Corrections Dept. says it has no plans to give inmates original copies of their mail

At an annual budget hearing in Harrisburg, Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reaffirmed the policy is staying put.

6 years ago

Investigators remove bags from a crime scene at the Robert Morris Apartments in Morrisville, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her teenage daughter in the deaths of multiple relatives, including children, was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges. The bodies were found Monday inside an apartment at the complex. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

DA: Murder-suicide pact a ‘potentiality’ in Bucks quintuple homicide

Police found a Pennsylvania woman and her teenage daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children.

6 years ago

Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in Washington, D.C., in June 2018. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Manafort seeks leniency in sentencing

Paul Manafort's attorneys argued to a federal court on Monday that their client is not a hardened criminal and shouldn't be sentenced too harshly.

6 years ago

Jeffrey Epstein (Palm Beach Sheriff's Office via AP, File), R. Kelly (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast),
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Kids

Sex abuse, the powerful, and criminal justice

We discuss the Jeffrey Epstein and other recent cases of powerful people who, until now, have escaped justice for sex abuse crimes.

Air Date: February 26, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday. The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
Criminal Justice
Religion

Catholic cardinal charged with child sex abuse convicted in Australia

The jury convicted Cardinal George Pell of abusing two 13-year-old boys whom he had caught swigging sacramental wine in Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in late 1996

6 years ago

#MuteRKelly supporters protest outside R. Kelly's studio, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 in Chicago. Lifetime's
National

Lawyer enters not guilty plea for R. Kelly in sex abuse case

R&B singer R. Kelly's attorney entered a not guilty plea on behalf of his client Monday as the singer faces multiple charges of sexual abuse in Chicago.

6 years ago

In this 2014 photo, people march in the annual Pride Day Parade in Philadelphia.
(Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Photo)
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Is 2019 the year Pa. gives LGBTQ+ people discrimination protection?

Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act grants certain groups of people extra legal protection against discrimination. One group it misses? LGBTQ+ people.

6 years ago

Elad Dvash-Banks (left) and his husband, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan (center right), and Aiden in their apartment last year in Los Angeles. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
NPR
Home & Family
Immigration
Kids

Judge rules against State Department in same-sex couple’s citizenship lawsuit

Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks have twin sons, born four minutes apart. The U.S. State Department has maintained that one is a U.S. citizen and one is not.

6 years ago

R. Kelly turns himself in at Chicago's 1st District-Central police station on Friday evening. Earlier that day, Kelly was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Public Safety

R. Kelly bond set at $1M after arrest on charges of aggravated sexual abuse

Kelly is being allowed to go free as he awaits trial after posting $100,000, or 10 percent of the bond.

6 years ago

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
National
Politics

Mueller: Manafort ‘brazenly violated the law’ for years

Citing Manafort's lies to the FBI, several government agencies and his own lawyer, prosecutors said that "upon release from jail, Manafort presents a grave risk of recidivism.

6 years ago

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