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An undated police mugshot of Cesar Sayoc, who was charged Friday with sending explosive devices to critics of President Trump. (Broward County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Who is Cesar Sayoc? Bomb suspect has criminal history, attacked Democrats online

Cesar Sayoc has a long criminal history, including a charge of making a bomb threat.

8 years ago

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

‘Star witness’ testifies against fellow Delaware inmates in fatal prison hostage siege

A convicted murderer who once headed a notorious Baltimore prison gang testified Friday for Delaware prosecutors against four fellow inma ...

8 years ago

This Nov. 1, 2017, photo shows a van with windows covered with an assortment of stickers in Well, Fla. Federal authorities took Cesar Sayoc into custody on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, and confiscated his van, which appears to be the same one, at an auto parts store in Plantation, Fla., in connection with the mail-bomb scare that has targeted prominent Democrats from coast to coast. (Courtesy of Lesley Abravanel via AP)
National
Public Safety

Florida man charged after weeklong bomb-package scare

Law enforcement officials identified the man as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida.

8 years ago

Police outside the U.S. Post Office Royal Palm Processing
NPR

Authorities search Miami postal sorting facility in pipe bomb investigation

Federal agents and the Miami-Dade County Police Department searched the facility on Thursday night,

8 years ago

 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.

8 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 ...

8 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.

8 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 ...

8 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.

8 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 ...

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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