Marc Fogel, a history teacher from Pittsburgh, is serving a 14-year prison sentence after being arrested in August 2021 at a Russian airport and possessing what his family and supporters said was medically prescribed marijuana.
The state Supreme Court decided Simon and Toby Galapo were exercising their rights under the Pennsylvania Constitution when they erected protest signs on their property and pointed them squarely at the neighbor's house in the Philadelphia suburbs with messages such as "Hitler Eichmann Racists," "No Place 4 Racism" and "Woe to the Racists. Woe to the Neighbors."
The Pennsylvania Court Appointed Special Advocates Association (CASA) is urging the PA General Assembly to allocate $3.6 million in the state budget to expand their critical advocacy program, which supports abused and neglected children through highly trained community volunteers, improving their outcomes in the child welfare system.
Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the October 1930 icepick stabbing of a white woman, even though there were no eyewitnesses and no evidence linked him to the crime. He was convicted by an all-white jury on January 7, 1931, and executed five months later.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Sheetz and two subsidiary companies, alleging the Altoona-based chain discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check.
Pennsylvania State Senator Amanda Cappelletti explained the impact storytelling has when it comes to protecting reproductive rights at a roundtable in Harrisburg last month. “Storytelling humanizes people,” Cappelletti told The Keystone in an interview. Cappelletti...
