Author: Maryclaire Dale
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Philadelphia LGBTQ leaders arrested in traffic stop the mayor calls ‘concerning’
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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker says she’s very concerned by the arrest of two of the city’s top LGBTQ leaders during a highway stop
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Philadelphia pledges better response after Black man’s death
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PHILADELPHIA • Philadelphia police pledged to release 911 tapes and police body camera footage “in the near future” in the shooting death of a Black man with a history of mental health problems, a death that prompted protests, widespread vandalism and an overnight curfew days before Election Day. Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw pledged to release…
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Judge: Injection sites don’t violate federal drug laws
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PHILADELPHIA • A federal judge ruled Wednesday that supervised injection sites designed to prevent overdoses would not violate federal drug laws, potentially giving advocates in Philadelphia and elsewhere a boost in their efforts to open such centers. U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh said there’s no evidence that Congress intended 1980s-era drug laws to cover such…
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Synagogue rampage suspect indicted on 2nd day of funerals
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PITTSBURGH • The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, and members of a grief-stricken Jewish community endured another round of funerals for victims of the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history. Robert Bowers, a 46-year-old truck driver who authorities say raged against Jews as he gunned down…
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Pittsburgh begins burying its dead as Trump faces protesters
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PITTSBURGH • Pittsburgh’s Jewish community began burying its dead Tuesday after the synagogue massacre, holding funerals for a beloved family doctor, a pillar of the congregation, and two fifty-something brothers known as the Rosenthal “boys.” President Donald Trump, meanwhile, arrived in Pittsburgh to pay his respects and encountered hundreds of shouting, chanting protesters with signs…
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Synagogue shooting suspect appears in court
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PITTSBURGH • The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Robert Gregory Bowers, who was wounded in a gun battle with police during…
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Victims remembered: “The loss is incalculable’
PITTSBURGH • They were professors and accountants, dentists and beloved doctors serving their local community. A day after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead, officials released the names of the victims. The oldest of them was 97. The youngest was 54. They included a pair of brothers and a husband and…
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Fed’s open investigation in church abuse in Pa.
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PHILADELPHIA • Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand secret files and testimony from high-ranking leaders in what victims’ advocates say is the first such probe ever launched by the U.S. Justice Department. The subpoenas, served last week, follow a scathing state…
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Cosby gets 3 to 10 years for sex assault
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. • At an age when other Hollywood stars are settling into retirement and collecting lifetime-achievement awards, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was led away to prison in handcuffs Tuesday, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars in what was seen by many of his accusers as a reckoning richly deserved and long overdue.…
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Bill Cosby sentenced to prison time for 2004 sex assault
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — At an age when other Hollywood stars are settling into retirement and collecting lifetime-achievement awards, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was led away to prison in handcuffs Tuesday, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars in what was seen by many of his accusers as a reckoning richly deserved and long overdue.…