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Courts & Law

Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador on May 19, 2017, in London. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
NPR
International

Ecuador grants citizenship to Julian Assange, who lives in London embassy

Assange, who is Australian, first sought refuge at the embassy more than five years ago.

8 years ago

University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein, 19, was killed last week in his California home town. Police Friday arrested a suspect in the slaying. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Suspect arrested in California death of Penn student

A suspect has been arrested in the death of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student whose body was found at a California park, a ...

8 years ago

Before this heroin camp in Kensington was torn down, users congregated to shoot up. City officials have been talking about establishing a
NewsWorks Tonight
Addiction

Loophole in U.S. law could protect safe-injection site from federal crackdown

If the "safe-injection" site does launch, will federal law enforcers crack down, as they have vowed to do in other places?

8 years ago

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Bill Cosby, April 3, 2017 (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)

What will the #MeToo movement mean for Cosby’s next trial?

The trial is slated to begin April 2.

8 years ago

A map of the 7th congressional district as drawn in 2011. The district incorporates most of Delaware County and portions of Chester, Montgomery, Berks and Lancaster Counties. (Dan Gleiter/pennlive.com)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Politics

Federal judges uphold Pennsylvania’s congressional map in gerrymandering case

Attorneys for the plaintiffs say they plan to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

8 years ago

Court gavel, brown wood against a dark background
Business
Delaware

Prominence of Delaware bankruptcy court threatened

Recently introduced federal legislation would upend Delaware's business bankruptcy record.

8 years ago

A bicyclist rides past Pennsylvania State University's shuttered Beta Theta Pi fraternity house Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in State College, Pa. Centre County, Pa., District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller announced Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, that more charges have been filed against fraternity brothers after investigators recovered deleted surveillance video footage recorded before the Feb. 4, 2017, death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza, of Lebanon, N.J., after a night of heavy drinking.
WPSU
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Shapiro takes over Penn State hazing death case after new DA’s recusal

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is taking over the prosecution.

8 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Politics

North Carolina gerrymandered map ruled unconstitutional by panel of judges

A three-judge panel ruled late Tuesday that North Carolina's congressional district map was illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship.

8 years ago

Special Agent in Charge Valerie Nickerson of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement Agency, announces the implementation of the 360 Strategy for Southern New Jersey to help combat the opioid epidemic.
Addiction
Behavioral Health
New Jersey
Policing

DEA launches ‘360 Strategy’ in South Jersey to fight opioid, heroin use

The program looks beyond law enforcement to prevent opioid distribution.

8 years ago

Demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) rally outside the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles last week.
NPR
Immigration
International
Social Justice

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s decision to end DACA

A federal judge in California late Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania State Police vehicle
National

Supreme Court hears argument in 2 vehicle search cases

One case involves a Pennsylvania state troopers' stop of a rental car driven by a man who wasn't on the rental agreement.

8 years ago

Smyrna High School teacher Joshua Rutheford is accused of trying to meet what he thought was a teenage girl for sex at a Dover park. (photo courtesy Del. DOJ)
Delaware
K-12

Ex-teacher to plead guilty to child sex charges in Delaware

A former Delaware teacher facing child sex charges has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

8 years ago

Movita Johnson-Harrell
The Philadelphia Tribune
Philadelphia

Krasner names Movita Johnson-Harrell interim Victim Services supervisor

After firing 31 employees last week, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced a new appointment on Monday.

8 years ago

A view of Jerusalem Old City seen from Mount of Olives, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.
International
Philadelphia
Religion

Israel closes door to Philly Quaker group, other organizations advocating boycott

Israeli officials said they are defending their country's right to exist and will continuing fighting efforts to “delegitimtize” it.

8 years ago

New Jersey State Prison in Trenton.
NewsWorks Tonight
New Jersey
Policing
Social Justice

New Jersey lifts prison ban on ‘The New Jim Crow,’ a popular book on mass incarceration

The New Jersey Department of Corrections has lifted a ban on the book “The New Jim Crow” at two of its prisons, following a complaint from the state chapter of the ACLU.

8 years ago

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