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Philadelphia

Glenside man charged with assaulting Philly police captain during Saturday rally

A suburban Philadelphia man was charged Saturday with assaulting a city police captain during the “We the People” rally in su ...

7 years ago

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker gestures after speaking at the Dept. of Justice's Annual Veterans Appreciation Day Ceremony, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
National
Politics

Democratic senators sue over Whitaker’s appointment as AG

Three Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s appointment is unconstitution ...

7 years ago

Officers at the Cumberland County Prison walk the halls in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Health Care
Medicine

Pa. Department of Corrections to provide costly hepatitis C treatment to nearly 5,000 inmates

Pa.'s DOC has agreed to treat the state’s nearly 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C over the next three years.

7 years ago

Larry Krasner is District Attorney of Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Home & Family
Philadelphia

Philly DA says he’s striving for justice not harshest sentence in homicide cases

Some family of murder victims have called this approach unjust.

7 years ago

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Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale, speaks after he was sworn in for his second term at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
Aging
Pennsylvania

Pa. auditor general to investigate nursing homes, citing staffing issues

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene Depasquale plans to conduct follow-up audits of nursing homes.

7 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Feb. 19 about whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be deposed for the lawsuits over the citizenship question he added to the 2020 census. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Supreme Court to weigh in on dispute over census citizenship question evidence

A hearing over these issues is scheduled to be held on Feb. 19.

7 years ago

CNN's Jim Acosta gestures as he leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, following a hearing on a legal challenge against President Donald Trump's administration over the revocation of his White House
Media
Politics

Judge: White House must return CNN’s Jim Acosta’s credential

The White House's explanations for why it seized Acosta's credentials have shifted over the last week.

7 years ago

Khieu Samphan, (left), former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at the dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday. (Nhet Sok/AP/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
NPR
History
International
Military

Verdict on Khmer Rouge leaders is first to officially acknowledge regime’s genocide

The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal.

7 years ago

A 12-member jury are deliberating charges against inmates allegedly involved in a prison riot (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware

Jury gets the case in Vaughn prison uprising trial

Prosecutors and defendants argued over the legitimacy of evidence and inmate testimonies during closing arguments in a trial for three pr ...

7 years ago

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At the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Thursday, the national anti-death penalty organization Witness to Innocence calls for Pennsylvania to abolish the death penalty. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Exonerated death-row inmates push Pa. to abolish capital punishment

Witness to Innocence, a national anti-death penalty organization based in Philadelphia, ...

7 years ago

Attorney Jeff Anderson announces a suit against the Pennsylvania’s eight Catholic dioceses on behalf of victims of clergy child sexual abuse. He is joined by victim Daniel Hillanbrand and Hillanbrand’s wife, Donna. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Public Safety
Religion

New lawsuit against Pa. Catholic dioceses demands more secrets be revealed

Two people who have accused priests of molestation in Philadelphia have filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and ...

7 years ago

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Johnny Bobbitt Jr., (left), Kate McClure, and Mark D'Amico pose at a gas station
Addiction
Homelessness

GoFundMe benefit scheme: Couple charged, homeless man in custody

It's not exactly clear what happened with the money, though Bobbitt's attorney has said it's all gone.

7 years ago

A guard tower and razor wire at New Jersey Department of Corrections Riverfront State Prison are seen in Camden, N.J., not far from the span, left, of the Benjamin Franklin bridge that crosses the Delaware River to Philadelphia.
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

New Jersey’s recidivism rate plummets 19 percent over past six years

New Jersey’s rate of prison recidivism has dropped by 19 percent over six years, with fewer than three in 10 of those released winding up reincarcerated within three years.

7 years ago

The Senate has confirmed a number of judges nominated by President Trump to the federal bench, including two additions to the Supreme Court. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National
Politics

Trump is reshaping the judiciary. A breakdown by race, gender and qualification

The Trump administration has already written the opening chapters of what could be its most enduring legacy: the makeup of the federal courts.

7 years ago

left to right: Kwame Ajamu, Kirk Bloodsworth (AP)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Policing

Death row exonerees speak out

Guests: Kirk Bloodsworth, Kwame Ajamu, Helen Prejan Being sentenced to death row for a crime you did not commit i ...

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