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In this file photo, a police cruiser is parked in Camden, N.J. (Bas Slabbers/for WHYY, file)
New Jersey
Policing

N.J. police departments ordered to identify problem cops, randomly drug test officers

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the new rules were part of an effort to increase “transparency and accountability.”

7 years ago

Sign outside George Smith Towing in Southwest Philadelphia (Tom MacDonald, WHYY)
Business
Philadelphia

Philly towing company agrees to fine, refunds in settlement with Pennsylvania AG

The deal between George Smith Towing and the state includes the company's agreement to refund money to 28 people.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby (Mel Evans/AP, file)

Jury selection for Bill Cosby retrial delayed until April 2

The start of Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial is being pushed back a few days to give both sides more time to wrangle over pretrial issues.

7 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Lawrence Krasner  (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philly DA announces changes to ‘end mass incarceration’ through lighter sentences

A new directive broadens the scope of interests considered at sentencing from the direct impact on criminals and their victims to include the effect on taxpayers.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case

Judge: 5 other accusers can testify at Bill Cosby’s retrial [updated]

Judge Steven O’Neill’s ruling Thursday is a victory for prosecutors looking to portray the 80-year-old comedian as one of Hollywood’s biggest serial predators.

7 years ago

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Model Janice Dickinson outside Los Angeles Superior Court in 2016
Criminal Justice

Janice Dickinson’s lawsuit against Bill Cosby can proceed

Model Janice Dickinson's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby can move forward after the California Supreme Court refused an appeal from the comedian.

7 years ago

This Oct. 31, 2014, photo shows Timothy Piazza, (center), with his parents Evelyn and James Piazza, during Hunterdon Central Regional High School football's 'Senior Night' at the high school's stadium in Flemington, N.J. (Patrick Carns via AP)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Prosecutors drop assault charges in Penn State hazing death

Pennsylvania prosecutors are dropping all assault charges against members of a now-closed Penn State fraternity in the hazing death of 19-year-old pledge Tim Piazza.

7 years ago

Rapper Meek Mill arrives at the criminal justice center in Philadelphia, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. A Philadelphia judge has sentenced rapper Mill to two to four years in state prison for violating probation in a nearly decade-old gun and drug case.
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philly prosecutors not opposed to releasing rapper Meek Mill

Mill was sentenced in November to two to four years in prison for violating probation on a roughly decade-old gun and drug case.

7 years ago

Soldiers wearing protective clothing prepare to lift a tow truck in Hyde Road, Gillingham, Dorset, England as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues Wednesday March 14, 2018.  The army cordoned off a road in Dorset on Wednesday as the investigated the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Authorities have cordoned off several sites in and near Salisbury, 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of London as part of their probe.  (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Radio Times
International
Politics

Poisoned spy inflames U.K. – Russia relations

Guest: Richard Pérez-Peña We talk about the nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in Salisbury, U ...

Air Date: March 15, 2018 10:00 am

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Charnel Brownlee participates in a Workers' Freedom March to protest efforts to weaken America's working families. The Feb. 24 march was one of 300 similar actions at works sites across the nation (SEIU 32BJ)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Business
National

Supreme Court case could affect U.S. union workers

Public sector employees of color could be adversely impacted by the Janus v. AFSCME case.

7 years ago

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Politics

FBI: Ex-aide to US Rep Bob Brady target in murder-for-hire

Milton Cranford, an Arkansas lobbyist, was arrested last month with a .45-caliber pistol and nearly $18,000 in cash that authorities say he planned to pay the hit man.

7 years ago

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New Jersey
Public Safety

N.J. man pleads guilty in pressure-cooker bomb plot case

Twenty-one-year-old Gregory Lepsky pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

7 years ago

(File/Newsworks)
Delaware
Law

Trial for former Wilmington Trust execs begins

The trial of four former Wilmington Trust executives accused of bank fraud and conspiracy began in Delaware’s federal court Monday. ...

7 years ago

A bus leaves the correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
Criminal Justice
Housing
Philadelphia

Coalition gets data to help cut Philadelphia’s recidivism rate

The 24-page report provides a snapshot of these former inmates – their gender, race and what ZIP codes they’re expected to call home.

7 years ago

AP photo
Down the Shore

Man allegedly threatened to "open fire" with machine gun at rally

Authorities have arrested an Ocean County man for allegedly threatening to shoot a gun at a rally in support of stricter gun control laws.

7 years ago

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