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Crime

Judge's gavel on wooden table with law books. (bigstockphoto.com)
Courts & Law

How a Delaware man now suspected in four murders avoided prison after violating probation

A Delaware probation officer wanted Keith Gibson to spend more years in prison. A public defender and the judge pushed back, and he was set free.

4 years ago

Listen 1:39
The silhouettes of military service members are pictured.
Politics & Policy

For years U.S. Army hid, downplayed extent of firearms loss

Nearly 10 years ago, AP began investigating military weapons accountability with a question: How many guns have disappeared? A pattern of secrecy and suppression followed.

4 years ago

Walnut Hill resident Shuja Moore offered the idea of reaching out to Philadelphia’s biggest influencers to help combat the city’s gun violence epidemic at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Community Town Hall at the Church of Christian Compassion in West Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly DA turns to residents for solutions to city’s gun violence epidemic

The office is hosting four town halls to crowdsource solutions to the city’s gun violence epidemic. The first one was held Monday in West Philly.

4 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Courts & Law

Krasner: Philly is limited in enforcing against riding dirt bikes, ATVs on city streets

The DA’s comments come as Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a bill cracking down on people riding ATVs on city streets.

4 years ago

A hand holds up a phone with Bitcoin logos on it, against the backdrop of a screen with numbers on it
NPR
Money

How Bitcoin has fueled ransomware attacks

If you're planning a multi-million dollar ransomware attack, there's really only one way to collect — with cryptocurrency.

4 years ago

FILE - This image taken from a Sept. 14, 2019, video and released in a U.S. Attorney detention memorandum, shows Brian Mark Lemley Jr, driving, and Patrik Mathews, passenger seat, passing through a toll booth near Norfolk, Va., en route to Georgia. The pair, along with William Garfield Bilbrough IV, plotted to carry out
Courts & Law

Canadian member of extremist group with Delaware ties who talked about fomenting ‘civil war’ pleads guilty to firearms charges

Patrik Jordan Mathews briefly lived in the Newark area when he was caught on tape constructing rifle parts and talking about committing violent crimes, authorities say.

4 years ago

Ghost guns. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philadelphia police say they’ve seized more ghost guns in 6 months than in all of last year

It’s a troubling trend on top of this year’s substantial increases thus far in both shooting victims and homicide victims.

4 years ago

Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora and Police Director Sheilah Coley speak to reporters in the wake of Tuesday's double homicide
Courts & Law

Trenton’s police director has been fired

Sheilah Coley was praised for diversifying and modernizing the department, but was criticized for the city’s violence and telling officers to stand down during unrest.

4 years ago

Protestors with CeasefirePa gathered at Love Park in Philadelphia in August 2019 to stand against gun violence nationally and locally. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Future of Philly’s fight to enact local gun laws is now in the hands of state court

State law prevents Philadelphia from enacting its own gun control measures. A new lawsuit against the General Assembly aims to change that.

4 years ago

A Philadelphia Police Department cruiser is seen traveling down a Philly street.
Courts & Law
6ABC

Man arrested in Dunkin’ manager’s killing is suspect in 2 other murders: Sources

Keith Gibbson has been arrested following the killing of Dunkin' store manager Christine Lugo in North Philadelphia. Sources say he's also a suspect in two other murders.

4 years ago

Zahirah Ahmad, a North Philly resident and member of the Not On My Watch movement, joined activists at a rally and march at City Hall in Philadelphia on March 26, 2021, to demand the city put more resources to preventing gun violence. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philadelphia gun control lawsuit: City and state to clash in court hearing

The city is asking the court to invalidate a Pa. rule that makes it illegal for municipalities to pass their own measures aimed at curbing gun violence.

4 years ago

A worker heads into JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo.  A ransomware attack on the world's largest meat company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Cybersecurity and the growing threat of ransomware attacks

What do the recent ransomware attacks on the world's largest meat production company and a U.S. oil pipeline reveal about our cybersecurity and the growing threat?

Air Date: June 3, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks from behind a podium
Courts & Law

‘Prioritized profits over people’: AG Shapiro announces Darby nursing home manager’s guilty plea after three residents die

Chaim “Charlie” Steg, manager of St. Francis rehab center, pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment. Three residents died from insufficient care.

4 years ago

A closeup of President Donald Trump standing outside
Courts & Law

New grand jury seated for next stage of Trump investigation

The development signals that the Manhattan district attorney’s office was moving toward seeking charges as a result of its two-year investigation.

4 years ago

DA Krasner provides update on suspect accused of multiple sexual assaults. (DAO)
Courts & Law

Philly DA to charge 28-year-old with rape and robbery following string of sexual assaults

Police arrested Kevin Bennett in Indianapolis on Saturday after he allegedly raped three women in Philadelphia. He is suspected of sexual assault in eight states.

4 years ago

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