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Courts & Law

Jim and Evelyn Piazza left the courthouse with their lawyers after hearing closing statements for the second preliminary hearing for the hazing case resulting in the death of their son, Tim Piazza, in March.
(Min Xian/ WPSU)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

A third judge has dismissed the most severe charges in Penn State hazing case

Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia has dismissed all involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges in the February 2017 death of Timothy Piazza.

7 years ago

Trump Tower in New York Thursday, Aug. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Criminal Justice
Politics

Reports: Trump Organization finance chief gets immunity

Allen Weisselberg is believed to be one of two Trump executives mentioned in the suit who reimbursed Cohen and covered up the payments by saying they were legal expenses.

7 years ago

A grand jury report on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania has proved to be especially difficult reading for parishioners of St. Therese’s Church outside Wilkes-Barre. Now Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses say they are willing to set up a victims compensation fund as they face the prospect that state lawmakers will give victims of decades-old child sexual abuse another chance to sue the church. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

In a single Pennsylvania parish, 5 priests accused of abuse

A lacerating grand jury report on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Pa. is especially difficult reading for a church where five of the accused priests served as pastor

7 years ago

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Down the Shore
Criminal Justice
Law
New Jersey

4 more accused of Sandy relief fund fraud

New Jersey authorities announced Thursday criminal charges against four more people for allegedly filing fraudulent federal Superstorm Sandy relief fund applications.

7 years ago

In this May 25, 2017 photo, a handgun is shown under a camera at the New Jersey state police forensics lab in Hamilton, N.J. Technicians study the inside of weapons to look for blood, body tissue and fibers after shootings.(AP Photo/Josh Cornfield)

New Jersey AG orders police to share info on crime guns

New Jersey’s Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has ordered all state and local police forces to share information on buyers and seller ...

7 years ago

SCI Mercer (Google Maps)
Pennsylvania
Policing

State prisons make changes after staff mysteriously sickened

Pennsylvania's state prison system is tightening security and revamping procedures after 18 staff members were treated at hospitals for exposure to a yet-unidentified substanc

7 years ago

On Jan. 31, when Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez and Paul Frame showed up in Philadelphia for a mandatory interview to adjust Martinez's immigration status, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him. (Provided)
Immigration

Chester County man, arrested while seeking green card, to be deported

Martinez has been detained in York since his January arrest in Philadelphia as he was interviewing for a green card with his husband, U.S. citizen Paul Frame.

7 years ago

In June, Muslim kids were asked to leave the Foster Brown Pool in Wilmington because of  what they were wearing. Now, the city has paid $50,000 to settle a discrimination claim. (Image via Google Maps)
Delaware
Law
Race & Ethnicity
Religion
Social Justice

Pool incident sparks religious discrimination lawsuit against Wilmington

A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Wilmington after a teacher and her young Muslim students were asked to leave a public pool b ...

7 years ago

The dank basement room in Philadelphia where four weak and malnourished mentally disabled adults, one chained to the boiler, were found locked inside on Saturday is shown Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Police arrested three adults staying in an apartment upstairs, including the person accused of being the ringleader, Linda Ann Weston, in what authorities say is a scheme to steal the Social Security disability checks of defenseless and vulnerable people. (Ron Cortes/AP Photo, Pool)
Philadelphia

Leader’s daughter in ‘Tacony dungeon’ case sentenced

A Philadelphia woman was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in federal prison.

7 years ago

In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, Texas. A federal judge in Seattle heard arguments Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, on whether to block a settlement the U.S. State Department reached with a company that wants to post blueprints for printing 3D weapons on the internet. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
Public Safety
Technology

States aim to stop internet release of 3D-printed gun plans

A federal judge said Tuesday the issue should be decided by the president or Congress.

7 years ago

The Camden County Police mobile command sets up on Broadway near Mount Vernon Street in Camden, where two detectives were shot. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Policing

All 3 suspects wanted in ambush shooting of police arrested

The remaining two men sought in connection with the ambush shooting of two New Jersey police detectives earlier this month have been arrested.

7 years ago

Rapper Meek Mill comes out to ring a Liberty Bell replica before the first half in Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series between the Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Court won’t remove judge, tells Meek Mill to appeal ruling

The court said Tuesday Mill's attorneys must go through the regular process of appealing Judge Genece Brinkley's decision, despite their argument she'd been biased.

7 years ago

President Trump speaks before a political rally in West Virginia on Tuesday. He lamented the fate of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He called Manafort's guilty verdict
NPR
Government Accountability
National
Politics

Guilty: 6 takeaways from Manafort’s and Cohen’s big day

In a split-screen whiplash, a regular Tuesday turned into a blockbuster with two top people close to President Trump now facing prison.

7 years ago

This courtroom sketch shows spectators waiting the the courtroom as the jury continues to deliberate in the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of Paul Manafort behind the closed door, at back left, in the courtroom of U.S. District court Judge T.S. Ellis III at federal court in Alexandria, Va., Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)
National

Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of 8 charges

The jury says it's reached a verdict on eight counts but is undecided on the remaining 10.

7 years ago

The planned demonstrations are in response to a riot that resulted in seven deaths in April at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. (Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Policing
Public Health
Social Justice

Inmates plan to hold 2-week strike at prisons across U.S.

Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a two-week strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.

7 years ago

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