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Tanya Brown-Dickerson talks about the fatal police shooting of her son, Brandon Tate-Brown, during a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Philadelphia on April 20, 2016. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Social Justice

Family of man killed by Philly police drops wrongful death case against city

The mother of a man who police shot to death during a routine 2015 traffic stop in Mayfair has withdrawn her federal civil-righ ...

9 years ago

Lee Kaplan is led to a preliminary hearing last year outside Bucks County Magisterial District Judge John I. Waltman's courtroom in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. Kaplan was sentenced Wednesday to decades in prison for sexually abusing six young sisters.(AP Photo/Megan Trimble)
Pennsylvania

Bucks man convicted in sex assault of 6 young sisters gets 30 to 87 years

A cultlike figure whose spiritual and financial hold over a formerly Amish couple enabled him to have sexual relationships with six of th ...

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Philadelphia

Whistleblower lawsuit raises questions about legal representation of Philly’s troubled poor children

An attorney from the Defender Association of Philadelphia has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the association, claiming his bosses ...

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, flanked by people whose loved ones have been addicted to opioids, announces new details of a 41-state investigation into the role of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid epidemic. (Laura Banshoff/WHYY)
Behavioral Health
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Pennsylvania

Shapiro details massive, multistate probe into drug companies’ role in opioid crisis

Standing on the turf of Upper Dublin High School’s football field, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro drew the connection b ...

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The U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo, file)
New Jersey

Menendez may face choice between voting on health care plan or attending his trial

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez may be grappling with a tough choice in the coming days: return to Washington, D.C., for a major vote or sit at th ...

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In this file photo, Sen. Bob Menendez talk to reporters as he arrives to court for his federal corruption trial in Newark, N.J., (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
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New Jersey

Menendez judge allows evidence of ‘innocent’ actions

Defense attorneys for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez will be allowed to present evidence of actions he took that are similar to those he faces at ...

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Delaware
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Delaware report shows limited legal help for low income residents

A Delaware report shows low income residents have limited access to legal representation in civil cases in the state. On Monday, t ...

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 Jerry Sandusky, and his wife, Dottie Sandusky (left), and an undated file photo provided by the Centre County Correctional Facility (right) shows Jeffrey Sandusky, the son of former Penn State University assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who has pleaded guilty pressuring a teenage girl to send him naked photos and asking her teen sister to give him oral sex. (Matt Rourke and Centre County Correctional Facility/AP, file)

Sandusky’s son pleads guilty to child sex abuse allegations

A son of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky pleaded guilty Friday to charges he pressured a teenage gir ...

9 years ago

 This Sept. 15, 2017 photo shows the exterior of the McCormick & Schmick's restaurant at the Harrah's casino in Atlantic City N.J.  (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
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Food & Drink
New Jersey

Man burned by caustic beer at Atlantic City McCormick & Schmick’s gets $750K

A New Jersey man whose esophagus and stomach were severely burned after drinking a beer tainted by a caustic chemical at an Atlantic City ...

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Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Law
Pennsylvania

Judge sets date for Cosby retrial on sexual assault charges

A judge has scheduled a new date for Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago. ...

9 years ago

 Philadelphia City Commissioners (from left) Anthony Clark, Lisa Deeley, and Al Schmidt, review write-in votes from the 197th legislative district special election in which more than 90 percent of the votes were write-ins. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Elections
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Two losing Pa. House candidates ask court for new election

Two losing candidates in a special election to for Pennsylvania State Representative seat in the 197th  District argued in federal c ...

9 years ago

 (File: Cliff Owen/The Associated Press)
Delaware
Kids
Law

Feds seek delay of child sex abuse trial of former Dover airman

Federal prosecutors are seeking to postpone the trial of a former Dover Air Force Base airman charged with sexually abusing a teenage run ...

9 years ago

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Delaware

Second incident of racist graffiti in Wilmington

Another car in Wilmington was spray painted with, “KKK,” “White Power,” and other racist graffiti. The car ...

9 years ago

 U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Leinbach, right, from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Security Forces Squadron, instructs airmen on squad tactics and danger crossing techniques at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 23, 2017. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)
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N.J. National Guard to provide security during Irma relief efforts in U.S. Virgin Islands

More than two dozen New Jersey National Guard troops are heading to the U.S. Virgin Islands to assist with security efforts during the in ...

9 years ago

 Two of the protesters are put on a freight elevator at City Hall after being removed from Council chambers. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Sheriff deputies remove 5 protesters from Philadelphia City Council meeting

Sheriff’s deputies forcibly removed five people from Philadelphia City Council’s weekly session Thursday.  Megan ...

9 years ago

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