PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Pittsburgh-area woman who claims Bill Cosby defamed her when he and his representatives responded to allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted her and other women. Thursday’s decision dismisses the October lawsuit filed by 48-year-old Renita Hill with prejudice. That means […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The state’s attorney general on Monday was ordered to stand trial on charges she leaked secret grand jury information to embarrass a rival prosecutor. Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania attorney general, didn’t speak as she left a suburban Philadelphia courthouse flanked by bodyguards. A […]
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The state’s top prosecutor was charged Thursday with leaking secret grand jury information and lying about her actions under oath. Attorney General Kathleen Kane leaked information to a political operative to pass to the news media “in hopes of embarrassing and harming former state prosecutors she believed, without evidence, made her […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah paid off an illegal $1 million campaign loan with federal grants and charitable donations, funneled campaign funds toward his son’s student loans and disguised a lobbyist’s bribe as payment for a Porsche his TV anchor wife never sold, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing a racketeering indictment against him. […]
Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is in intensive care for treatment of diabetes and is “not doing well,” his family said Tuesday,…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A private Pennsylvania college expelled three students over a campus radio broadcast in which they made racist comments and used a slur. Bucknell University president John Bravman met with about 1,000 students and staff about the matter on Tuesday, a day after sending a late-night email revealing the expulsions. “Their conduct […]
A Pennsylvania police officer who shot an unarmed man she stopped over an expired inspection sticker was charged with criminal homicide on Tuesday, the Washington…
A Bloomsburg University baseball player has been dismissed from the team for calling Little League World Series star Mo’ne Davis, “a slut,” reports the Associated…
Bensalem, Penn., police have finally arrested alleged serial gravesite vandal and American flag burner Anthony Davis Carter (pictured). The Feasterville man was captured and charged with…
LORDS VALLEY, Pa. (AP) — A survivalist accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other, was captured on Thursday by U.S. marshals in an abandoned airplane hangar, ending a seven-week manhunt that had rattled the nerves of area residents. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Eric Frein, who meekly […]
Pennsylvania newspaper The Lancaster New Era issued an apology, after running a nationally syndicated cartoon that compared commercial airplane seating to the horrifically crowded and…
