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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

Jury convicts cop, wife for Superstorm Sandy fraud

An Ocean County jury convicted a police officer and his wife of stealing $187,000 by filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related to Superstorm Sandy.

7 years ago

Crystal Weimer was arrested in 2004 for third degree murder, a crime she didn’t commit. She spent nearly 12 years in prison and was exonerated on June 27, 2016, and all charges were dropped with prejudice. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
The Why
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Social Justice

I want my lawyer?

How one woman's experience with her county public defender's office resulted in 12 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit.

Air Date: October 25, 2018

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Immigration
Pennsylvania

Chesco man arrested at green card interview released after 9 months in detention

Nearly nine months after federal immigration enforcement agents arrested and detained Jose “Ivan” Nu ...

7 years ago

Members of the Rise Above Movement (Screenshot via YouTube Lucas Waldron/ProPublica)
National
Public Safety
Social Justice
ProPublica

4 members of violent white supremacist group face riot charges, federal authorities say

The charges are against members of the Rise Above Movement.

7 years ago

U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss details a new task force led by the DEA to arrest and prosecute those who distribute heroin and fentanyl. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Delaware

Delaware launches overdose task force to prevent opioid deaths

Joel Davis thought he was taking a dose of heroin inside his Newark home on Feb. 15, 2017. What he didn’t know was that the drug had be ...

7 years ago

Founders Hall at Haverford College (Wikimedia Common s)
Higher Education
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Haverford College sues Trump admin. over crackdown on lapsed student visas

More than one in ten of the 1,300 students enrolled at the 185-year-old Quaker institution have student visas.

7 years ago

The correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philly gets second MacArthur grant to cut prison population in half

Philadelphia has been awarded an additional $4 Million by the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge with the goal of decr ...

7 years ago

(Jared Wickerham/AP Photo, file)
Public Safety
Transportation

Female Uber passenger says she was assaulted, calls company’s business model ‘dangerous’ for women

A Philadelphia woman called an Uber car one fall afternoon, and the trip quickly took an ugly turn.

7 years ago

Debbie Africa, (left), participates in a news conference alongside her son Michael Africa, Jr. and granddaughter Alia, 6, Tuesday June 19, 2018, in Philadelphia. Africa, a member of the radical group MOVE, was released from prison on Saturday, nearly 40 years after the group engaged in a shootout that killed a Philadelphia police officer in 1978. Michael Africa, Sr., has now also been released.  (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
History
Philadelphia

Mike Africa Sr., member of the MOVE 9, released after 40 years in prison

A second member of the MOVE 9 has been released from prison on parole.

7 years ago

Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski, pictured in this Thursday, July 27, 2017 file photo, announced his resignation days after being found guilty of federal corruption charges. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Politics

Former Allentown mayor gets 15 years in prison on corruption charges

Pawlowski was denied bail. After sentencing, he was handcuffed and taken from the courtroom.

7 years ago

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she has been diagnosed with
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National

Sandra Day O’Connor says she has dementia, withdraws from public life

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she has been diagnosed with "the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease," in an open letter.

7 years ago

Four people are charged with murder, kidnapping and other crimes in the February 2017 riot at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. (WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Delaware

As first Del. prison riot trial begins, defendants accuse state of sketchy plea deals

Men standing trial in connection with the deadly Delaware prison riot in February 2017 contend the court system is stacked against them b ...

7 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
NPR
Immigration

ICE appears to end use of federal prisons for immigrant detainees

A total of only three ICE detainees remain across the five prisons that once held hundreds of immigrants.

7 years ago

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pictured speaking at an event in September, died after a fight broke out in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month, according to Saudi state TV. (Middle East Monitor via Reuters)
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International

Jamal Khashoggi died in Istanbul consulate, Saudi state TV reports

Saudi Arabian officials confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been missing for 18 days, in a statement issued Saturday morning local time.

7 years ago

FILE – This Nov. 9, 2017, file photo shows Pennsylvania State University's shuttered Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in State College, Pa. Centre County, Pa.,(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Law named for Penn St. pledge who died after hazing signed

The death of a Penn State student after a night of drinking in a fraternity house is bringing a new anti-hazing law to Pennsylvania.

7 years ago

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