Courts & Law
N.J. authorities break up heroin operation possibly linked to 84 recent overdose deaths
N.J. authorities urged opioid users to ditch their drugs if they see certain packages after a major bust at a North Jersey facility producing heroin laced with fentanyl.
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Border Patrol starts releasing asylum-seeking migrants to South Texas streets
U.S. Border Patrol is releasing asylum-seeking migrants who were recently apprehended without detaining them because officials say detention facilities are full to capacity.
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Harvard profits from photos of slaves, lawsuit claims
Tamara Lanier says "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family and that Harvard is using those photos without permission and profiting from photos taken by a racist professor.
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Dismembered Pa. teen’s family testifies about impact of death
Family members of a slain 14-year-old girl named Grace Packer said Thursday they remain haunted by her torture and excruciating death.
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Witness says officer questioned teen’s actions in shooting
A witness in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer said he saw the officer panicking, saying, "I don't know why I shot him."
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FBI tracked Michael Cohen’s phones with controversial device
Michael Cohen, meet the Triggerfish.
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A narrow path to freedom: Why commutations for Pa. lifers are rare
The answer raises further questions about the effect of politics on the criminal justice system and whether a tool designed to give hope is working.
Air Date: March 20, 2019
Listen 15:53Supreme Court broadens the government’s power to detain criminal immigrants
The U.S. Supreme Court, ruled Tuesday that the government may detain, without a hearing, legal immigrants long after they have served the sentences for crimes they committed.
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Referee who told N.J. wrestler to cut dreads alleges defamation
A referee who was heavily criticized for telling a N.J. high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match has taken a step toward filing a defamation lawsuit.
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ACLU of Pa. back in court, says treatment wait for mentally ill inmates still too long
The state chapter of the ACLU is taking legal action over what it says is are unacceptably long wait times for mentally ill inmates in county prisons to get care.
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Records show FBI was probing Michael Cohen long before raid
The records show the inquiry into Cohen had been going on since July 2017 — far longer than previously known — and that a big part of its focus was Cohen's taxi businesses.
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White officer on trial in fatal shooting of Antwon Rose, 17
A prosecutor urged jurors Tuesday to focus on a white police officer's frame of mind when he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager near Pittsburgh last summer.
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Trial to begin for white police officer who shot unarmed black teen in Pittsburgh
Former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld fatally shot Antwon Rose last summer, sparking local protests.
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South Jersey drug bust leads to first charges under state’s new ‘ghost gun’ law
New Jersey's "ghost gun" law bans manufacturers from selling partially assembled guns that can be built into fully functional, untraceable firearms.
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Come Monday, Pennsylvanians can apply for pardons for free
The commonwealth's Board of Pardons has voted unanimously to get rid of all application fees, starting March 18.
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