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People gather at a gas station during a vigil to memorialize O'Shae Sibley on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sibley, a gay man, was fatally stabbed at the gas station after a confrontation between a group of friends dancing to a Beyoncé song and several young men who taunted them
Criminal Justice
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Philadelphia

NYC high school student charged with hate-motivated murder in killing of O’Shae Sibley

Sibley's death has sparked outrage and prompted tributes from celebrities including Beyoncé and Spike Lee.

2 years ago

Trump points towards something.
NPR
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Should Trump’s trial be televised?

There would need to be an exception to a rule barring cameras and microphones in federal courtrooms to make it happen.

2 years ago

Donald Trump onstage
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Prosecutors ask judge to issue protective order after Trump post appearing to promise revenge

Prosecutors want U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a protective order concerning evidence in the case.

2 years ago

A sign for the Township's building
Environment
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Pa. court reverses PUC decision on East Whiteland sewer sale to Aqua

Pa.’s Commonwealth Court recently ruled on the side of ratepayers in a major Office of Consumer Advocate case against the Public Utilities Commission and Aqua.

2 years ago

Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally
Crime
Elections
Government Accountability

Trump was told not to talk to witnesses in 2020 election conspiracy case. That could be a challenge

His lies about the election — which form the basis of the charges — are repeated in nearly every speech he gives.

2 years ago

Allegedly straw purchased weapons are laid out on a table.
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Public Safety

What is straw purchasing a gun? And how will tackling it slow the flow of guns in Philadelphia?

Philadelphia is the latest city to crack down on straw purchases in an effort to curb gun violence.

2 years ago

New Castle Delaware police car
Delaware
Gun Violence
Policing

New Castle County agrees to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuit over fatal police shooting

Officials in Delaware’s largest county have agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021.

2 years ago

This photo taken with a drone shows the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman has been sentenced to die in the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack

It was the first federal death sentence imposed during the presidency of Joe Biden, who pledged during his 2020 campaign to end capital punishment.

2 years ago

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia
NPR
Government Accountability

The latest Trump indictment lists 6 unnamed co-conspirators. Here’s what we know

The six unnamed allies have not been criminally charged or officially named by prosecutors.

2 years ago

Donald Trump stepping off of an airplane.
Elections
Government Accountability
National

Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election

This is the third criminal case brought against Trump in the last six months.

2 years ago

Pete Byron
Government Accountability
New Jersey
Taxes

Wildwood, N.J. mayor sentenced in federal tax fraud case

Mayor Pete Byron, 67, learned his fate before a federal judge in Camden on Wednesday.

2 years ago

police officers standing outside of a home
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Policing

Philly landlord-tenant officer expected to resume evictions ‘within weeks,’ sources say

Marisa Shuter had agreed to temporarily stop performing evictions after a string of shootings involving her deputies.

2 years ago

File photo: A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 2018. Robert Bowers, a truck driver who shot and killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the nation's deadliest attack on Jewish people, was found guilty, Friday, June 16, 2023. Bowers was tried on 63 criminal counts, including hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of the free exercise of religion resulting in death. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

The Pittsburgh synagogue gunman will be sentenced to death for the nation’s worst antisemitic attack

A federal jury recommended Wednesday that Robert Bowers be sent to death row. A judge must formally impose the sentence.

2 years ago

Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Clinton County GOP Hog Roast, Sunday, July 30, 2023, in Clinton, Iowa.
Elections
Government Accountability
National

Pence fought an order to testify but now is a central figure in his former boss’s indictment

On Tuesday, Pence said that the indictment “serves as an important reminder: Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States."

2 years ago

Pharmacist scanning barcode of medicine drug in a pharmacy drugstore
Crime
Health Care
Philadelphia

Two Northeast pharmacies fined $3.5 million to settle charges of Medicare Fraud

The alleged scheme was carried out from 2012 to 2016, and the medication that the government was billed for included treatments for asthma, depression, and some anesthetics.

2 years ago

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