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Criminal Justice
Law
National

Former Playboy model accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1969

A former Playboy model who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969 is suing the entertainer in Los Angeles.

2 years ago

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Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Secret meetings by board overseeing Pa.’s $1 billion in opioid settlements draw criticism

The oversight board also does not let the public speak at meetings and says it’s not subject to the state’s Right-to-Know Law.

2 years ago

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Business
Employment

Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute involving truck drivers and wet concrete

The lone dissenter in the case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the ruling would hinder the development of labor law and “erode the right to strike."

2 years ago

Donald Trump at the golf course
Government
Government Accountability

Reports: Prosecutors have tape of Trump discussing holding onto classified doc after leaving office

He suggested on the recording that he wanted to share information from the document with others but he knew there were limitations about his ability to declassify records.

2 years ago

Joyce McMillan shows pictures of her children at her home in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Monday, May 15, 2023. The city's child protective services removed her two daughters from her custody 23 years ago after an investigation discovered an illicit substance in her body.  McMillan is the founder of the advocacy group JMACforFamilies and is now an advocate pushing for reforms to the child welfare system.    (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Government
Kids
Law

How and when to remove children from their homes? A federal lawsuit raises thorny questions

If they win, the case could set a precedent for state welfare agencies across the country, especially when they remove a child from a home without a court order.

2 years ago

Montgomery County courthouse on a sunny day.
Business
Government
Gun Violence
Pennsylvania

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office will start inspecting gun stores; business owners react

The county sheriff said the routine inspections are not meant to be punitive, but to ensure businesses comply with state law.

2 years ago

A view of the beach at Ocean City, N.J., at dusk.
New Jersey
Policing
Public Safety
Public Spaces

Ocean City to close beaches at 8 p.m. after police respond to nearly 1,000 calls over Memorial Day weekend

“I understand that these new directives will affect many people who are not teens, but it’s important that we stop this type of behavior now,” Mayor Jay Gillian said.

2 years ago

The South Street Police Mini Station in the 900 block of South Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Politics
Billy Penn

Three commissioners just resigned in protest from Philly’s police oversight board

The three resignations come just over a year after the Citizens Police Oversight Commission officially began its work.

2 years ago

This undated photo provided by the Sayreville, N.J., Borough Council shows Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour. New Jersey prosecutors said Tuesday, May 30, 2023, that they arrested a Virginia man on murder and gun charges in the February death of the local councilwoman who was found fatally shot in her SUV outside her home
Crime
Government
Gun Violence
New Jersey

N.J. prosecutors announce murder charge against Virginia man in fatal shooting of councilwoman

Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said 28-year-old Rashid Ali Bynum, of Portsmouth, Va., was arrested on first-degree murder and two second-degree handgun charges.

2 years ago

File photo: This image from Metropolitan Police Department body worn camera video and contained in the Statement of Facts supporting an arrest warrant for Pauline Bauer, pointing second to left, taken in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Justice Department via AP)
Criminal Justice
Government
Pennsylvania

Pa. woman who threatened Nancy Pelosi with hanging during Capitol riot gets over 2 years in prison

The judge who sentenced 55-year-old Pauline Bauer on Tuesday convicted her of riot-related charges in January after hearing trial testimony without a jury.

2 years ago

Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y., on Aug. 9, 2021. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday, May 30 overturned a lower court’s 2021 ruling that found bankruptcy courts did not have the authority to protect members of the Sackler family who own the company and who have not filed for bankruptcy protection from lawsuits
Addiction
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

Ruling clears way for Purdue Pharma to settle opioid claims, protect Sacklers from lawsuits

Under the plan, members of the wealthy Sackler family would give up ownership of Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue, with its profits being used to fight the opioid crisis.

2 years ago

File photo: The Tree of Life Synagogue, lower left, stands in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Thursday, April 19, 2023. The federal jury trial of the suspect in the nation's deadliest antisemitic attack is scheduled to get underway Tuesday morning, four and a half years after the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Criminal Justice
Gun Violence
Pennsylvania
Religion

Prosecutor: Gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre harbored ‘malice and hate’ for Jews

The federal trial of Robert Bowers comes four and a half years after the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers from three congregations meeting at the Tree of Life synagogue.

2 years ago

Kennett Square Police Department in Chester County. (Google Maps)
Crime
Delaware

After Ben Ledyard’s second wife was murdered in 2019, he was charged with attacking third wife. Now, he faces new accusations in Kennett Square

Ledyard has been under scrutiny since the body of his second wife was found in the Brandywine River nearly four years ago.

2 years ago

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Black Lives Matter
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

On the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, reckoning with police violence remains in limbo

Now, three years since Floyd’s murder, proponents of federal actions still await signs of change.

2 years ago

Pennsylvania State Police troopers have justified vehicle searches by saying a driver was nervous, sweating, or eating. (Jose F. Moreno/Spotlight PA)
Pennsylvania
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Spotlight PA

Pa. State troopers more likely to do optional searches for Black, Hispanic drivers than white ones

Despite optional searches being more likely for Black and Hispanic drivers, contraband seizures from searches occurred more often for white drivers, according to new report

2 years ago

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