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NewsWorks Tonight

Appealing a public records request denial in N.J.? Don’t hold your breath

For one public records requester, the wait to have her complaint ruled on surpassed two years.

8 years ago

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Zhao Kong (center), the mother of Ao
NewsWorks Tonight
Higher Education
Mental Health

Lawsuit alleges Penn missed opportunities to prevent student’s suicide

Penn formed a task force to address the suicide rate in 2014 that issued some recommendations in an eight-page report. An attorney contends it hasn't taken sufficient action.

8 years ago

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FILE – In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, Heidi Thomas, a Denver woman who claims she was assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby, heads to a hearing room after a news conference at the State Capitol in Denver.

First Cosby accuser takes stand, says he preyed on ‘little nobody from Colorado’

Cosby defense will cross-examine witness on 1984 encounter in Reno.

8 years ago

A federal court has sided with Aileen Rizo, who filed suit after realizing her male counterparts were being paid more. The ruling overrules a previous interpretation of the 1963 Equal Pay Act. Rizo is seen here with her daughters in a photo she provided to the AP in 2017. (Aileen Rizo/AP)
NPR
Business
Gender
National

Women can’t have prior salaries used against them, court says in equal pay case

Employers can't pay women less than men just because they made less at a previous job.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa.
NewsWorks Tonight

Defense attorneys attack Cosby accuser in opening statement

The defense in Bill Cosby's retrial used its opening statement on Tuesday to portray a $3.4 million settlement paid to Constand as evidence of her greed.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Penn Township fracking dispute heads to court, with state’s Environmental Rights Amendment at center of lawsuit

A dispute over a local law that opens up much of a Pittsburgh suburb to oil and gas drilling has made it to a Westmoreland County courtroom.

8 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, physician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan (right), on Capitol Hill on Monday. Zuckerberg has accepted the blame for security lapses at the world's largest social network  as he girded for appearances this week before angry lawmakers
NPR

In comments to Congress, Zuckerberg will embrace a broader responsibility for content

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress this week, he's kicking things off by with an apology — an expansive one.

8 years ago

Police in Princeton, N.J. closed Nassau Street between Washington and Witherspoon streets after a person with a gun entered the Panera restaurant there. (Dana Difilippo/WHYY)
New Jersey
Policing
Public Safety

Man killed in Panera standoff was armed with what turned out to be BB gun

New Jersey officials have released surveillance footage in last month's shooting death of an armed man inside the Panera Bread restaurant, near Princeton University's campus.

8 years ago

Michael Cohen, right, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, leaves Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.

Attorney: Federal agents seize documents from Trump lawyer

Federal agents carrying court-authorized search warrants have seized documents from President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Monday, April 9, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (Corey Perrine/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Gender

Prosecutors reveal Cosby paid his accuser nearly $3.4M

Comedian Bill Cosby paid out nearly $3.4 million in a civil settlement with Andrea Constand, the woman he is on trial for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting in 2004.

8 years ago

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Mary Daly, 40, to the newly created post of opioid coordinator in February, making her the hub for the Justice Department's efforts to try to get a grip on the epidemic.
NPR

Federal prosecutor takes on new case as DOJ point person for opioid crisis

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Daly, 40, to the newly created post of opioid coordinator in February.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case, Friday, March 30, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

Cosby trial take two: What you need to know

After jury selection and recent motions in retrial, here's the latest.

8 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a roundtable meeting on sanctuary cities hosted by President Trump earlier this month.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Immigration
National

Sessions orders ‘zero tolerance’ policy for border crossers

His one-page order lacks specifics on how the policy will be carried out.

8 years ago

Philly DA Larry Krasner announces a new Victims Advisory Committee (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Amid criticism, Philly DA Krasner establishing crime victims advisory panel

Families of crime victims have criticized the new district attorney. Krasner has apologized and says the 'door is open.'

8 years ago

Anti-abortion-rights demonstrators stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 after oral arguments over buffer zones around abortion clinics. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
National

What free speech has to do with skim milk, condoms and corporate political spending

Below are a few of the cases from the 21st century that highlight what the right to free speech has come to embody.

8 years ago

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