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The Google Maps app is seen on a smartphone, March 22, 2017, in New York. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, the family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions filed a lawsuit against the technology giant for negligence, claiming it had been informed of the collapse but failed to update its navigation system
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Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wake County Superior Court claims Google had been informed of the collapse but failed to update its navigation system.

3 years ago

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Pennsylvania
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Chester County residents continue to press officials about prison escape

"There needs to be state changes that happen in Pennsylvania in order for us to feel safe in our homes," said one resident.

3 years ago

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Government Accountability
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After 911 miscues sent Philly cops to wrong location, City Council plans to hold hearings

The review comes after the botched response to a 911 call about the first victim in July’s mass shooting in Kingsessing.

3 years ago

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President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden leaves after a court appearance, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del.
NPR
Criminal Justice
Politics

Hunter Biden plans to plead not guilty in felony gun case

The president's son was indicted last week after a plea deal with federal prosecutors fell apart.

3 years ago

Siren light on roof of police car at street.
Crime
Philadelphia
Policing

Former PPD Officer Patrick Heron to face more than 200 charges of sexual crime in 1 trial. Many of his victims were young women

Patrick Heron retired from the PPD in 2019. Between 2022 and 2023, he’s been arrested three times on more than 200 charges of sexual crimes.

3 years ago

Insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021
Criminal Justice
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Ray Epps, center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged with a misdemeanor over the Capitol riot

Epps says he was falsely accused by Fox of being a government agent whipping up trouble that would be blamed on President Donald Trump's supporters. Fox hasn't commented.

3 years ago

Mark Dial entering the courthouse
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Policing
6abc

Bail revoked for Mark Dial, Philadelphia police officer charged in fatal shooting of Eddie Irizarry

Officer Mark Dial was charged with murder and was later released on $50,000 bail on September 8.

3 years ago

Evan Gershkovich

A Moscow court declines to hear an appeal by jailed U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich

The decision means Gershkovich, 31, will remain jailed at least until Nov. 30, unless his appeal is heard in the meantime and he is released — an unlikely outcome.

3 years ago

Newspaper sketch of Cordelia Botkin at the time of her 1904 retrial. (Wikimedia Commons; Billy Penn illustration)
Crime
Delaware
History
Billy Penn

125 years ago, a cross-country murder case gave new meaning to the term ‘death by chocolate’

Delaware couple John and Mary Dunning did not have a happy marriage.

3 years ago

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Pennsylvania
Public Safety
6abc

All 9 escapees from Berks County juvenile detention center taken into custody

Some of the escapees knocked on a random resident's door to surrender because they were cold, police say.

3 years ago

Law enforcement officers escort Danelo Cavalcante from a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Avondale Pa.
Criminal Justice
International
Pennsylvania

As captured fugitive resumes sentence in the U.S., homicide in his native Brazil remains unsolved

Cavalcante allegedly shot a man in Brazil in 2017, but he stood to receive a considerably lighter sentence.

3 years ago

Insurrectionists in front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
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National
Pennsylvania

A Jan. 6 rioter was convicted and sentenced in secret. No one will say why

Pennsylvania resident Samuel Lazar was arrested in July 2021 and had been jailed since then on charges in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

3 years ago

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Government
Philadelphia
Policing
Public Safety

Philly police oversight commission report shows progress on officer accountability, makes further recommendations

The Citizens Police Oversight Commission has released updates to prior changes on officer discipline, and recommended new reforms.

3 years ago

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A close-up of Hunter Biden
Criminal Justice
Law
National

Hunter Biden indicted on federal firearms charges in long-running probe weeks after plea deal failed

President Joe Biden's son has also been under investigation for his business dealings.

3 years ago

A Pennsylvania voter in Camp Hill wears an I Voted sticker on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022.
Elections
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Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Pa. election 2023: What to know about the judicial retention questions on the November ballot

Pennsylvania voters will be asked to consider giving two Superior Court judges new 10-year terms. These little-noticed ballot questions can have huge ramifications.

3 years ago

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