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In 1971, John and Bonnie Raines and six other activists broke into the FBI offices in Media in order to expose the bureau's effort to suppress dissent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

If all went according to plan, Raines and fellow anti-war activists would pull off a burglary that would go down in history as exposing J ...

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Delaware report shows limited legal help for low income residents

A Delaware report shows low income residents have limited access to legal representation in civil cases in the state. On Monday, t ...

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Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Courts & Law

Judge sets date for Cosby retrial on sexual assault charges

A judge has scheduled a new date for Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago. ...

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Courts & Law

Feds seek delay of child sex abuse trial of former Dover airman

Federal prosecutors are seeking to postpone the trial of a former Dover Air Force Base airman charged with sexually abusing a teenage run ...

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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks in view of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's ChildlLine during a news conference, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Philadelphia. After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

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Report: Pennsylvania child abuse workers swamped, underpaid

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

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Politics & Policy

Challenger says Rep. Brady paid debt to get him out of 2012 race

The man who federal authorities say agreed to drop his 2012 Democratic primary challenge of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady in return for $90,000 in ...

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Brandon Bostian, (center), the Amtrak engineer charged in a Philadelphia derailment that killed eight in 2015, accompanied by his lawyer Brian McMonagle, (right), arrives for a preliminary hearing at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

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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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(Daycare photo via Google maps/mugshot courtesy Delaware State Police)

Courts & Law

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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Sen. Bob Menendez, center, arrives at the courthouse with his children, Alicia Menendez and Robert Menendez Jr., in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)

Courts & Law

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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Politics & Policy

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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This Oct. 31, 2014, photo provided by Patrick Carns shows Timothy Piazza, (center), with his parents Evelyn and James Piazza, during Hunterdon Central Regional High School football's 'Senior Night' at the high school's stadium in Flemington, N.J. (Patrick Carns via AP)

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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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Some area colleges are asking prospective students for their juvenile criminal history. (Bigstock)

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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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In this Aug. 15, 2017 a woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during an immigration reform rally at the White House in Washington. After months of delays, President Donald Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of so called 'dreamers' who were brought into the country illegally as children as he faces a looming court deadline and is digging in on appeals to his base. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo, File)

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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 Mayor Joe DiGirolamo (left)announces that the township will sue pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid epidemic. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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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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