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Judge dismisses charges against Amtrak engineer
A judge has dismissed criminal charges against the engineer in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people. The ...
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Delaware daycare terrorized, man accused of grabbing infants
Police say a Newark man ran into a daycare center, grabbed two infants and tried to kidnap them. 47-year-old Calvin Davis rang the ...
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Judge warns prosecutors against turning Menendez case into ‘tabloid trial’
Minutes after the first witness took the stand Thursday in the federal corruption case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from Ne ...
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Trump to Congress: ‘Get ready to do your job’ on immigration
President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it’s up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigr ...
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Judge tosses most serious charges in Penn State frat death
A judge on Friday threw out involuntary manslaughter and felony assault counts filed against members of a Penn State fraternity in a pled ...
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First Person: Carper on healthcare
Senator Tom Carper is back with us on First this week. He created a national sensation a couple weeks ago by simply stating th ...
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Philly legal aid group urging colleges to stop asking applicants about criminal record
Community Legal Services, one of Philadelphia’s largest legal assistance organizations, is pushing area colleges and universities t ...
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On ‘Radio Times’: Young immigrants who are used to DACA may face a difficult change
President Trump is expected to announce a decision on whether or not he will continue the five-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arr ...
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Bensalem targets Big Pharma with suit to recover millions it’s spent dealing with opioid crisis
Bensalem is poised to become the first local government in Pennsylvania to sue pharmaceutical companies in an effort to recover ...
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Normally, the loudest noise you might hear on Ryan Pownall’s sleepy Northeast Philadelphia block is the occasional roar of a lawnmower. ...
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Trump’s craven Joe Apraio pardon, translated
On Friday night Trump pardoned Joe Apraio, the racist Arizona sheriff whose “pervasive culture of disriminatory bias against Latino ...
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Trump expected to decide soon on fate of young immigrants
After months of delays, President Donald Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of young immigrants who were brought into the count ...
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What will the House do? It’s Pennsylvania’s $2B question
The question of what Pennsylvania’s House Republican majority will do about a $2.2 billion hole in the state budget is sending ripp ...
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New Pa. DUI law increases penalties on first-time offenders
A new Pennsylvania law going into effect Friday aims to cut down on drunken driving by requiring first-time offenders to have Breathalyze ...
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Christie signs bill to regulate, tax daily fantasy sports
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie has signed into law a measure to regulate and tax daily fantasy sports. The law imposes ...
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