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Courts & Law

 This Dewey Beach neighborhood was inundated with flood waters during Superstorm Sandy. (Chuck Snyder/for NewsWorks)
Down the Shore
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

Former cop gets 5 years in prison for Sandy fraud

A former police officer has been sentenced to prison for his role in stealing $187,000 in federal Superstorm Sandy relief funds to repair a vacation home on the Jersey Shore.

6 years ago

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 30, 2018.
NPR
National

Ginsburg misses Supreme Court arguments for first time after cancer surgery

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not taking part in today's oral arguments before the court.

6 years ago

James Fitzgerald was among the individuals named in the defamation lawsuit settled on Friday. He was one of several purported experts featured in the CBS documentary The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey. (Paul Zimmerman/WireImage)
NPR
History
Media

JonBenét Ramsey’s brother settles defamation lawsuit with CBS

Ramsey, who was 9 years old at the time, sued CBS in 2016 after the network aired a two-day documentary including the theory he'd slain his 6-year-old sister.

6 years ago

In this May 2018 photo, workers and contractors for Sunoco Pipeline investigate sink holes behind homes at Lisa Drive, West Whiteland Township, Chester County where the company has been drilling for construction of the Mariner East 2 and 2X pipelines. The company offered to relocate residents of the five homes whose yards are crossed by the pipeline right of way. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Chester County DA names former federal prosecutor to beef up pipeline probe

Tom Hogan says the investigation will proceed even if there are talks with Sunoco.

6 years ago

Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico started a GoFundMe campaign for homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt (right). (GoFundMe)
Business
New Jersey
Technology

After GoFundMe scam, N.J. lawmaker seeks tougher penalty for crowdfunding swindlers

A South Jersey couple and a homeless Philadelphia man fabricated the feel-good tale, prosecutors say, to trick the public into donating to a crowdfunding site.

6 years ago

FILE: Katie Brennan, (left), then-chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, listens to a question as she testifies before the Select Oversight Committee at the Statehouse, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in Trenton, N.J.  (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey

Katie Brennan files notice of intent to sue New Jersey over hiring her alleged rapist

Brennan says her allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a campaign staffer to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy were ignored. Then he was hired to work for the state.

6 years ago

A natural gas drilling pad in Pennsylvania.(Lindsay Lazarski/for WHYY)
Energy
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. drillers must pay millions in outstanding impact fees, court rules

Natural gas companies must pay millions of dollars in outstanding impact fees to the state, following a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.

6 years ago

Paul Frame (left) and his husband Jose
Immigration
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania

For Chesco man arrested in immigration interview, an uncertain future remains

Jose "Ivan" Noe Nuñez Martinez and his husband have been savoring what can feel like borrowed time, after he was arrested in Philadelphia last year.

6 years ago

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A sign on Riegelsville Road in Holland Township, New Jersey, shows local opposition to the PennEast pipeline. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey Attorney General says federal judge erred in PennEast Pipeline ruling

New Jersey’s attorney general says PennEast Pipeline Co. can’t legally sue the state for access to more than 40 parcels of protected land.

6 years ago

In this Aug. 14, 2018, file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro walks to the podium to speak about a grand jury's report on clergy abuse in the Roman Catholic Church during a news conference at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred at least in part by a shocking grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania, an Associated Press review has found. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
National
Public Safety
Religion

A reckoning is underway in U.S. Catholic Church

Recently disclosed accusations date back six or seven decades, with the oldest from the 1910s in Louisiana.

6 years ago

The York County Prison is where most immigration detainees in Pennsylvania are held after ICE arrests. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Federal government shutdown halts most Pa. immigration court hearings

The federal government shutdown — caused in part by disagreements over immigration policy — is halting down immigration court hearings across Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

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Sheila Reid, whose son, Jerame, was shot and killed by police in 2014, has urged Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill requiring New Jersey to investigate all police-involved deaths. She’s sitting in front of a poster made to remember him, that spells his name the way it’s pronounced. (Ang Santos for WHYY)
New Jersey

Murphy mum on plan AG opposes for state probes of police-involved fatalities

Attorney General Grubir Grewal says forcing local prosecutors off cases and sending in state officials would slow investigations and anger the public.

6 years ago

Listen 3:42
Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Addiction

Opioid-makers face wave of lawsuits in 2019

Thousands of state and local governments are demanding that companies like Purdue Pharma, Walmart and Rite-Aid compensate them for the costs of the opioid crisis.

6 years ago

The federal website where consumers can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is shown on a computer screen in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)
NPR
Health Care

Affordable Care Act can stay in effect while under appeal, judge says

The federal judge in Texas who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional earlier this month said that the law can remain in effect while under appeal.

6 years ago

While canvassing in Olney, Tarik Harris crosses the street to survey Lindley Playground, which he says is known to be a location for selling drugs. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

A night with Philly’s ‘violence interrupter’ teams who offer services to curb bloodshed

The strategy to use former drug dealers, gang members and others with violent pasts to help broker peace in troubled neighborhoods is now set to expand in Philly.

6 years ago

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