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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks in view of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's ChildlLine during a news conference, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Philadelphia. After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Pennsylvania

Report: Pennsylvania child abuse workers swamped, underpaid

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia head of the NAACP Rodney Muhammad speaks at City Hall. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
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NAACP demands equal justice in building collapse case

The Philadelphia NAACP said it wants the black contractor involved in the 2013 fatal Center City building collapse to receive the same tr ...

8 years ago

 Mentor Frantz Herr (left) and returning citizen Isaac Rivera (right) have a discussion before the Lancaster County re-entry program at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Bradley C. Bower/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Behavioral Health
Pennsylvania
Policing

Lancaster knows how to keep people out of jail, but it’s expensive

After nearly two decades in prison, Isaac Rivera was ready to remake himself. The 41-year-old from Lancaster served time after a 1 ...

8 years ago

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 U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez speaks  during a news conference, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Union Beach, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
New Jersey
Personal Finance

Prosecutors cite private plane trip as bribe in Sen. Menendez trial

A wealthy donor on trial for bribery with U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez spent more than $8,000 to fly Menendez back to Washington from Florida o ...

8 years ago

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Delaware

Delaware slips in ranking in legal climate report

Delaware has fallen short this year in an annual report that explores how fair the states’ tort liability systems are to businesses. ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
Public Safety
Public Spaces

Supreme Court weighs gun ban in Delaware parks, forests

Delaware’s Supreme Court is weighing a decision in a lawsuit challenging bans on non-hunting firearms in state parks and forests. ...

8 years ago

In this 2017 photo, protesters in Harrisburg call on lawmakers to support redistricting reform. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
Reinvention

Ralliers try to convince Pa. lawmakers to act on gerrymandering

Advocates for overhauling the redistricting process packed the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg Tuesday hoping to persuade lawmakers to take ...

8 years ago

 Brandon Bostian, (center), the Amtrak engineer charged in a Philadelphia derailment that killed eight in 2015, accompanied by his lawyer Brian McMonagle, (right), arrives for a preliminary hearing at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Law
Philadelphia

Judge dismisses charges against Amtrak engineer

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against the engineer in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people. The ...

8 years ago

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New Jersey
Public Safety

2 N.J. contracting companies allegedly scammed Sandy victims

State authorities allege that contractors doing business along the Jersey Shore used deceptive practices to obtain more than $1.3 million ...

8 years ago

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Philadelphia
Policing
Social Justice

Philly cop who killed suspect has good chance of getting job back

A soon-to-be-fired Philadelphia police officer could get his job back. On Thursday, the police department announced that Officer R ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
Law
Public Safety

Delaware daycare terrorized, man accused of grabbing infants

Police say a Newark man ran into a daycare center, grabbed two infants and tried to kidnap them. 47-year-old Calvin Davis rang the ...

8 years ago

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Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Policing

Why lawmakers, neighbors want to crack down on Philly’s ‘stop-and-go’ stores

Pastor William Brawner shook his head. Across the street, a handful of older men was carousing around a car parked at the far end ...

8 years ago

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 Police investigate a shooting on 7th St. in May. A 13-year-old boy was arrested after a brief chase. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Public Safety

Wilmington leads the country in shooting rate among young people

When the shots rang out — “pop, pop, pop,” and then a thunder roll of gunfire — Maria Williams hit the floor. The ...

8 years ago

 Sen. Bob Menendez, center, arrives at the courthouse with his children, Alicia Menendez and Robert Menendez Jr., in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
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National
New Jersey

Judge warns prosecutors against turning Menendez case into ‘tabloid trial’

Minutes after the first witness took the stand Thursday in the federal corruption case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from Ne ...

8 years ago

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Insurance
New Jersey
Policing

New Jersey hoping an amnesty approach on Medicaid fraud might work

New Jersey is trying a pilot program that will allow Ocean County residents who fraudently obtained Medicaid to avoid prosecution if they ...

8 years ago

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