Courts & Law
Pa. House settles on rural-friendly path for updating judicial elections
Pa. state House members appear to have decided on a way to overhaul judicial elections. For a few weeks, they have been debating competing bills.
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U.S. charges former intelligence analyst with leaking classified data to reporter
The Justice Department says Daniel Everette Hale, of Nashville, Tenn., used his top-secret computer to print out dozens of documents related to counterterrorism operations.
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FBI is investigating 850 cases of potential domestic terrorism
The U.S. doesn't have an explicit law allowing the federal government to criminally charge extremists with domestic terrorism.
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Man indicted in gas money scam involving homeless veteran
Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said Wednesday that 39-year-old Mark D'Amico, of Florence, was indicted on six separate charges related to the scheme.
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Temple University cops sued over alleged racial profiling incident
The federal civil rights complaint alleges that Temple police stopped a high school student at gunpoint for doing nothing other than driving while black.
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U-Haul fined $1 million after fatal food truck explosion in North Philly
U-Haul wasn’t charged in connection with the 2014 deadly food truck explosion in North Philadelphia, but it is on the hook for more money.
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Natural gas driller EQT fined $330K for erosion violations in Allegheny County
Natural gas driller EQT was fined $330,000 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for erosion violations at two natural gas sites in Allegheny County.
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‘Sextortion’ bill would criminalize sexual coercion in Pa.
Ten other states have criminalized sexual extortion within the past two years.
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Justice Clarence Thomas’ moment may finally have arrived
Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position.
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Prosecutors refuse final meeting with Cohen as prison looms
For months, President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean.
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Brady aide Ken Smukler gets 18 months in prison, $75K fine for election law crimes
A jury found that Smukler helped arrange and cover up a $90,000 payoff to one of then U.S. Rep. Bob Brady’s opponents in the 2012 congressional election.
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Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid
John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations.
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Dorney Park settles black patron’s racial profiling suit
The Allentown Morning Call reports Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom's parent company settled the suit for an undisclosed amount.
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Armed with new evidence from backlog of rape kits, Philly DA ready to prosecute
Police have finished testing a backlog of 1,500 rape kits for DNA evidence. Authorities have discovered that more than 60 of those samples match DNA in the police database.
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ACLU: Border agents violate Constitution when they search electronic devices
In a legal filing, the agencies said their searches were "a crucial tool for detecting evidence relating to terrorism and other national security matters."
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