Corrupt doctors, organized crime fuel drug abuse in New Jersey, report says
In one instance, investigators found Warren County residents were traveling to Bergen County to visit a so-called pill mill run by Kamil Mustafa, an elderly doctor with ties to the Italian mob....
View ArticlePennsylvania attorney general likely won't defend same-sex marriage suit,...
That would leave it to Gov. Tom Corbett to defend the 1996 state law that defines marriages as a civil contract in which a man and a woman take each other as husband and wife, the Associated Press...
View ArticleThe water's cold at the Jersey Shore but it should warm up soon, expert says
Southerly winds have created an upwelling effect, bringing cold water up from the depths, the National Weather Service says. It's been a summer of extremes for beachgoers along the Jersey Shore. Those...
View ArticleUnemployment applications up in the last week in U.S., government announces
In numbers that lag by a week the federal figures, New Jersey seeks a surge in applications, while Pennsylvania sees a drop. U.S. unemployment benefit applications rose 16,000 last week to a...
View ArticleStock market hot early as Ben Bernanke says Fed's in no hurry to limit...
Dow and S&P in record territory in early trading. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.59 percent from 2.63 percent late Wednesday. The stock market is rising to record highs...
View ArticleBoston Strangler announcement expected today involving DNA and last victim
Boston police say in a statement 'the miracle of science and DNA evidence' point to a suspect. The Boston Globe says that suspect is Albert DeSalvo, the reputed Strangler who was murdered in 1973 in...
View ArticlePa. attorney general: I won't defend the ban on same-sex marriage
Kathleen Kane will leave it to Gov. Tom Corbett to defend the ban, which he supports. Defending Pennsylvania's law effectively banning same-sex marriage against a legal challenge in federal court will...
View ArticleAlbert DeSalvo, the reputed Boston Strangler, linked by DNA to murder victim
DeSalvo's remains are being exhumed for further DNA matching. Advances in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed...
View ArticleEx-Penn State President Graham Spanier initiates libel suit against Louis Freeh
Court filing comes one day before one-year anniversary of Jerry Sandusky report. Penn State’s former President Graham Spanier is initiating a libel and defamation case against Louis Freeh, who a year...
View ArticleHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stepping down
She will run the University of California system. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who led the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security through a host of policy changes in the post...
View ArticleMacungie woman, who stole police cruiser in Philadelphia and continued wild...
Her boyfriend said he stole a cruiser in which they rode from Camden across the Delaware River, but once in Philadelphia, Shayna E. Sykes took matters into her own hands, police say. A Macungie...
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Penn State trustees authorize several settlements with Jerry Sandusky victims
The deals are limited to a range of dollar values that the board received in a closed-door session. View full sizeFormer Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken...
View ArticleColgate lays off 350 in closure of New Jersey plant
Layoffs are to start after the middle of next year. Colgate-Palmolive has announced plans to close its Morristown plant.The New York-based consumer products company says it will lay off 350 employees...
View ArticleFlood advisory issued for Lehigh Valley, Warren and Hunterdon counties
As of about 4:45 p.m., a line of moderate-to-heavy rainfall was moving into the area and producing rainfall of an inch or more per hour, the National Weather Service reports. The National Weather...
View ArticleAllentown man stabbed, threatened to murder man who owed him money, police say
The 38-year-old man is in Northampton County Prison after being ID'd in a photo lineup. An Allentown man pointed a handgun at a man's face in Easton while threatening to shoot him over owed money,...
View ArticleNew Jersey bus driver accused of lewd act behind the wheel
The bus was traveling from Carteret to New York City. New Jersey’s transit agency has removed a bus driver for committing a lewd act on the job.A commuter videotaped 41-year-old George Simpson Jr....
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Penn State trustees approve budget, tuition increases
The board met at Penn State's Fayette campus in Uniontown. View full sizePenn State trustees approved a budget and tuition increases on Friday. AP File Photo Penn State's Board of Trustees has...
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Have you seen these people? - fugitives of the week July 13, 2013
Prosecutors in Northampton, Warren and Hunterdon counties are looking for these fugitives. Aislinn Lee Beam, Chipper Wyckoff and Kywon Hardy Northampton County authorities seek Aislinn Lee Beam...
View ArticleDumping problems across Pa. spur cleanup, surveillance system ideas
Keeping Pennsylvania Beautiful released surveys regarding Northampton and Lehigh counties. An environmental group's nine-year survey of illegal dumps in Pennsylvania found 67 sites in Northampton and...
View ArticleThird passenger in Asiana crash dies - news links
Also, jury deliberations resume today in the Zimmerman trial, Prohibition-era sherry was found in walls of a Pa. house, and the return of Twinkies is bittersweet for former workers. Girl is third...
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