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Andrea Constand, center, walks into a courtroom for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Friday, April 13, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. Constand, Bill Cosby's chief accuser, will take the witness stand on Friday.

On the stand, Cosby’s main accuser said she came to court ‘for justice’

Andrea Constand remembers thinking it was “absurd” for Bill Cosby, her friend and mentor, to have a romantic interest in her.

7 years ago

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A gas drilling site in Lycoming County, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Bill would weaken standards on conventional oil and gas drillers in Pa.

The measure marks the latest move in a protracted legal and political battle over how to regulate the state’s oil and gas industry.

7 years ago

Anne Franco and her husband, Ludvin Franco, on their wedding day (Provided)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, it’s open season on undocumented immigrants

ICE’s Philadelphia office is making more 'at-large' arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions than anywhere else in America.

7 years ago

Janice Dickinson walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse during a break in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial on Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.

Cosby accuser on omitting assault in memoir: ‘I wasn’t under oath when I wrote book’

Not long before reality TV star and former model Janice Dickinson says Bill Cosby raped her in 1984, she snapped a picture of the iconic entertainer in a hotel in Lake Tahoe.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown after the third day of his  sexual assault trial Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Third Cosby accuser says he gave her pills, then she passed out on backgammon board

Janice Baker-Kinney was the third woman to tell a Montgomery County jury the 80-year-old comedian gave her a substance that knocked her out before he sexually assaulted her.

7 years ago

Activist Bird Milliken shouts
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Criminal Justice
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Pennsylvania

Catalyzed by Cosby, advocates aim to end time limits on reporting sexual assault

Comedian Bill Cosby's retrial is underway, and some activists hope the case will highlight their fight to end statutes of limitations on prosecuting sex crimes.

7 years ago

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Chelan Lasha weeps as she returns to the courtroom after recess to testify against Bill Cosby during Cosby's sexual assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (Dominick Reuter/Pool Photo via AP)

Second Cosby accuser tells jury ‘Dr. Huxtable’ humped her leg at the Las Vegas Hilton

Bill Cosby accuser Chelan Lasha testified on Wednesday that the comedian drugged her and humped her leg in a suite at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1986.

7 years ago

Heidi Thomas arrives to testify against actor and comedian Bill Cosby during the retrial of Cosby's sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Cosby accuser told Constand, ‘I got your back, sister’

Bill Cosby’s attorneys sought to portray one of his accusers as an attention-seeker influenced by other women sharing their allegations against the comedian

7 years ago

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Radio Times
Law
Politics

F.B.I. raid on Michael Cohen’s offices

Guest: Mimi Rocah Yesterday the F.B.I. raided the offices and home of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal ...

Air Date: April 11, 2018

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NewsWorks Tonight

Appealing a public records request denial in N.J.? Don’t hold your breath

For one public records requester, the wait to have her complaint ruled on surpassed two years.

7 years ago

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Zhao Kong (center), the mother of Ao
NewsWorks Tonight
Higher Education
Mental Health

Lawsuit alleges Penn missed opportunities to prevent student’s suicide

Penn formed a task force to address the suicide rate in 2014 that issued some recommendations in an eight-page report. An attorney contends it hasn't taken sufficient action.

7 years ago

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FILE – In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, Heidi Thomas, a Denver woman who claims she was assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby, heads to a hearing room after a news conference at the State Capitol in Denver.

First Cosby accuser takes stand, says he preyed on ‘little nobody from Colorado’

Cosby defense will cross-examine witness on 1984 encounter in Reno.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa.
NewsWorks Tonight

Defense attorneys attack Cosby accuser in opening statement

The defense in Bill Cosby's retrial used its opening statement on Tuesday to portray a $3.4 million settlement paid to Constand as evidence of her greed.

7 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Penn Township fracking dispute heads to court, with state’s Environmental Rights Amendment at center of lawsuit

A dispute over a local law that opens up much of a Pittsburgh suburb to oil and gas drilling has made it to a Westmoreland County courtroom.

7 years ago

Police in Princeton, N.J. closed Nassau Street between Washington and Witherspoon streets after a person with a gun entered the Panera restaurant there. (Dana Difilippo/WHYY)
New Jersey
Policing
Public Safety

Man killed in Panera standoff was armed with what turned out to be BB gun

New Jersey officials have released surveillance footage in last month's shooting death of an armed man inside the Panera Bread restaurant, near Princeton University's campus.

7 years ago

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