Crime & Safety
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Quakertown emails detail ICE protest threat, defend police action
Emails from Quakertown Community School District, the police department, and the borough council reveal more of what town leaders were saying and doing before and after the student walkout that led to a police confrontation and student arrests.
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Pennsylvania court upends mandatory use of life-without-parole for second-degree murder
Pennsylvania’s high court on Thursday overturned the use of automatic life sentences without parole for people convicted of second-degree murder, saying it violates the state’s constitutional ban on cruel punishment when imposed without a closer look at the defendant’s specific role and culpability.
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Who should pay when state police are the local force in Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania State Police cover two-thirds of the state’s municipalities that do not have their own police department, putting a statewide agency in charge of local patrols for more than 1,300 localities across the state.
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PennDOT warns of scam texts about fake traffic tickets
PennDOT District 9 has reported residents in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, and Somerset counties are receiving scam text and email messages falsely claiming to be from the agency.
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Who are Emir Balat & Ibrahim Kayumi? What we know about NYC suspects
A week after two Bucks County teens were charged in an an attempted terror plot, it’s still unclear how, or even if, they knew each other before authorities said they drove to Manhattan on a mission to kill.
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Ex-mayor of Gettysburg faces child sex crime charges. What to know
Chad-Alan Carr, 48, of Gettysburg Borough, was charged in Straban Township with two felony counts of having a photograph or film on a computer depicting a child sex act, and one misdemeanor count of corruption of a minor
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In Quakertown, deep divisions follow anti-ICE walkout, violent clash
The high school walkout to protest immigration control policies ignited outrage within the school district of 38,000 residents after viral videos showed about a dozen students fighting with borough police Chief Scott McElree, who charged into the crowed dressed in plainclothes and put one student in a chokehold.
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Bucks County teen terror suspect got fuse at Penndel fireworks store
Whenever William Weimer hears news reports using words like “improvised explosives,” the fireworks company executive immediately orders checks to see if suspects shopped at one of his stores.
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Head priest of Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh accused of stealing baseball cards from Walmart
The Very Rev. Aidan Smith was arrested Feb. 27 by police just after leaving the Walmart in Economy Borough, just outside Pittsburgh, with 27 packs of baseball cards concealed under his clothing and in a cardboard box, according to court records.
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Pennsylvania ranks among top states for online scam losses, according to new report
A new report says that Pennsylvania residents are losing close to $3 billion annually to online fraud, on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
