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Courts & Law

Downed power lines and a battered road is what superstorm Sandy left behind as people walk off the flooded Seaside Heights island, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Down the Shore
Law
New Jersey

N.J. charges 4 secondary homeowners with Sandy fraud

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

8 years ago

Sandra Day O'Connor in a 1950 Stanford University yearbook photo and William Rehnquist in a 1948 Stanford University yearbook photo. (Associated Press)
NPR
History

O’Connor, Rehnquist and a supreme marriage proposal

Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.

8 years ago

State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown D-Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pennsylvania House lawmaker convicted of taking cash bribes

A Harrisburg jury found Philadelphia Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown guilty of bribery.

8 years ago

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Radio Times
Behavioral Health
Gender
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LGBTQ
Medicine
Politics

Transgender rights: #WontBeErased

Guests: Heath Fogg Davis, Leonore Carpenter, Nadia Dowshen The Trump administration is considering legally defini ...

Air Date: November 1, 2018 10:00 am

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Pallbearers carry the caskets of brothers Cecil Rosenthal, 59, and David Rosenthal, 54, on Tuesday in Pittsburgh, Pa. The brothers were among 11 killed in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue last Saturday.
NPR
Public Safety

Pittsburgh shooting and other cases point to rise In domestic extremism

Three men are in custody, charged in three separate cases of domestic extremism last week.

8 years ago

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

Delaware prison riot defendants challenge inmate witness

Royal 'Diamond' Downs recalled attacks on correctional officers and of inmates roaming the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in bloody clothes.

8 years ago

Michael White’s aunt leaves the Philadelphia courthouse Tuesday with activist Asa Khalif and family. Her nephew is facing third-degree murder charges in the stabbing death of Sean Schellenger in July. (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Philly stabbing suspect held on 3rd-degree murder charge in case called racially tinged

A Philadelphia judge has approved a third-degree murder charge against a 21-year-old bike courier accused of fatally stabbing a real esta ...

8 years ago

The special counsel's office says it has referred an alleged scheme to make false claims against Robert Mueller to the FBI.
(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc.)
NPR
National
Politics

Mueller’s office notifies FBI of alleged scheme involving harassment claim

A spokesman for Mueller confirmed the referral on Tuesday in a statement.

8 years ago

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

Alleged ‘mastermind’ of Del. prison riot fires attorney; judge reschedules case

The man prosecutors call the "mastermind" of the Feb. 2017 deadly prison riot in Delaware has fired his attorney, and will be tried at a later date.

8 years ago

This photo shows some of Stars of David with names of those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in Saturday's shooting, at a memorial outside the synagogue. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pennsylvania

Death penalty sought in Pittsburgh shooting — but it’s far from settled

Robert Bowers is facing both state and federal charges. It’s unclear when he’ll be arraigned on the state ones, but he's already had his first hearing on federal counts.

8 years ago

The scene outside a Kroger supermarket following a shooting that left two people dead last Wednesday in Jeffersontown, Ky. Many have labeled the attack a hate crime. (Timothy D. Easley/AP)
NPR
National
Public Safety

Killing of 2 at Kentucky supermarket is being investigated as hate crime

A white man charged with shooting and killing two African-Americans at a Kroger supermarket in Kentucky last week had first tried to enter an African-American church.

8 years ago

In August, demonstrators call for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal who was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1982. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Law

Upset with delay on Abu-Jamal ruling, officer’s widow ordered from courtroom

Final decision on Mumia Abu-Jamal appeal in murder case delayed for a month

8 years ago

(Andreyuu/Bigstock)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Shore lawyer sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing from elderly clients

A Shore attorney who hosted a radio show and taught seminars on elder law has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing more than $3 million dollars from clients.

8 years ago

Law enforcement officials gather outside a U.S. post office facility after reports that a suspicious package was found in Atlanta, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Criminal Justice
National
Public Safety

FBI says suspicious parcel was addressed to CNN in Atlanta

Bomb squads were called to a post office in Atlanta on Monday about a suspicious package sent to CNN, investigators said Monday

8 years ago

Anti-abortion demonstrators, including Phyllis Schlafly, foreground, rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1992. The high court upheld most provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law.
The Why
History
Pennsylvania
Politics

Deja Roe

A Pennsylvania case that got to the Supreme Court in 1992 could have spelled the end for Roe vs. Wade.

Air Date: October 29, 2018

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