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LaTarsha Brown, 42, was charged with making false reports and tampering with or fabricating evidence Brown reported finding a noose on her desk at City Hall on January 10 All employees agreed to provide DNA samples except for Brown Brown initially cooperated with the investigation but later asked for it to be stopped The noose was sent for DNA testing on January 14 A search warrant for Brown's DNA was ex*cuted on January 24 and submitted for comparison State police report was released on March 10 Brown's DNA matched swabs of the outer surface and inner-knotted portion of the noose...

While requiring voters to prove they are who they say they are does make elections more secure, the reality tends to be more complicated.Pennsylvania, which cemented itself as a true swing state in the last few presidential elections, does not currently require voter ID at the polls, other than for first-time voters. The rumblings about the need for Pennsylvania voter ID are intensifying, and yet another in a long string of bills was just introduced.Social media punditry — by self-proclaimed experts — would lead the casual observer to believe that voter ID is the answer to all election integrity woes...

President Trump attends the NCAA Division-I wrestling championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As President Trump walks into the arena, the crowd erupts in loud cheers to greet the people’s president. WATCH:.

The University of Pennsylvania has laid off its communications lecturer—who published a slew of anti-Semitic cartoons—just a year after standing by him, citing the school’s "bedrock commitment to open expression." The dismissal coincided with the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $175 million in federal funding to the school. The Annenberg School for Communication lecturer, Dwayne Booth, announced his unemployment in a Patreon post on Friday. Booth said "the reason for the termination was budgetary," but accused universities nationwide of being "way too complicit" with a "largely Republican-led effort" to target left-wing voices. "I was informed that the reason for the...

After the recent government shutdown vote, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) offered a three-word response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after she complained about how Senate Democrats handled the deal, criticizing her party for caving to Republican demands and not pushing harder against the funding bill. In a blunt response, Fetterman told his fellow Democrat to "deal with it.” This exchange highlights the ongoing friction within the Democratic Party, where some members like Ocasio-Cortez argue for a tougher stance, while others, like Fetterman, prioritize pragmatic solutions to avoid a shutdown. On Friday, Fetterman told AOC to “deal with it” after she...

Terry Bradshaw has changed political parties and he's refusing to apologize for it. The legendary NFL quarterback, who won four Super Bowls during his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers, hasn't shied away from discussing politics. In fact, he's been pretty open about it. The iconic Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, like some other athletes - Danica Patrick, Charles Barkley - has actually switched political parties during his career. Bradshaw, 76, was a longtime Republican. However, he ultimately decided to switch political parties, becoming a registered Independent voter. He has been with the Independent party for the past several years. The former NFL...

President Donald Trump’s administration is withholding $175 million from the University of Pennsylvania due to the school’s failure to ban men from women’s sports. The White House announced the decision in a post on X Wednesday, citing the university’s “policies forcing women to compete with men in sports.” The $175 million makes up approximately 20 percent of the total federal funds the university received last year, with the payments coming from the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services, a White House official told The New York Post.

The Trump administration paused $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports, FOX Business exclusively reported on Wednesday morning. The Ivy League university now stands to risk losing all of its federal funding amid an investigation into potential Title IX violations. A senior administration official told FOX Business that the administration has paused $175 million in federal funding. This did not account for UPenn’s total federal funding, which the university previously reported last year was around $1 billion. The pause is not a direct result of the investigation into...

Attorneys for three women, who were victims of sex trafficking, have announced their clients have agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners of three hotels located along Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia after claiming the businesses didn't do enough to protect them. In a statement, attorneys with Kline & Specter said their clients, three women who said they were victims of sex trafficking when they were minors, will receive $17.5 million from the Motel 6, Days Inn and North American Motor Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.

Senator Chuck Schumer’s sudden decision on Thursday to support a Republican-written bill to avert a government shutdown so enraged his fellow Democrats that some were already talking about primary challenges to the 74-year-old Democratic leader from New York. The eruption of anger about Mr. Schumer’s seeming surrender thrust into public view a generational divide that has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s deepest and most consequential rifts. Younger Democrats are chafing at and increasingly complaining about what they see as the feebleness of the old guard’s efforts to push back against President Trump. They are second-guessing how the party’s...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) stated that he would have preferred if Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had told Republicans “we need A., B., C., and D. for the Democratic Party and force the Republicans to meet him halfway on those issues and deliver something for the folks who are worried now” or else he’d vote for a government shutdown. Host Bill Maher asked, “Republicans proposed a budget and Chuck Schumer said he would vote for it and then did and got ten Democratic senators to vote with him. The other...

Maybe it can fire some of its 7,000 administrators.. Harvard has a $53 billion endowment. That’s a little less than the annual budget of the state it’s in. But still the wealthy woke uni is crying poverty over what it calls “substantial financial uncertainties driven by rapidly shifting federal policies.” Those are weasel words since what Harvard is really worried about are administration cuts driven by wasteful fake research spending and crackdowns on tolerance for campus antisemitism. And Harvard has good reason to be worried about both of those things. Harvard has the money to persevere, but instead, it’s pausing...

A plane crashed into a Lancaster County retirement village parking lot Sunday afternoon, leaving multiple people injured and sparking a fire that engulfed nearby vehicles. The plane came down just south of the Lancaster Airport in the parking lot of Brethren Village in the Fieldcrest Building. That's in the area of Fairview Drive and Meadowview Court in Manheim Township. There were five people on board the plane. All were taken to area hospitals.

Prison officials in Philadelphia continue to ignore U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainers, forcing officers to confront dangerous criminal illegal alien offenders in uncontrolled prison and jail parking lots. Prisoner transfers between law enforcement agencies routinely happen inside the controlled jail environment so officers can safely assume inmate custody. Philadelphia is only one of several sanctuary cities that hope to give criminal illegal aliens one last chance to escape back into their communities and avoid the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies. ICE arrested Anderson Nunez-Hernandez, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, as he was exiting the Philadelphia Industrial...

WASHINGTON — While many Democrats shouted, booed, walked out or afterward harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s highly adversarial address to Congress on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman a day later took issue with something else: his own party. Fetterman, D-Pa. has long bucked a progressive label, become one of Capitol Hill’s staunchest supporters of Israel and a strong U.S. border, and touted bipartisanship and open-minded politics so much that he’s felt compelled to deny plans to switch parties. But he yet again chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday — this time over their protests of Trump’s nearly 100-minute speech. Many Democrats...

Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on “immediate administrative leave” as university investigates allegations.. A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, is a member of Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. government in October in an announcement that described it as a "sham charity" and a "front organization" for the Popular Front...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — Governor Shapiro released a statement Friday afternoon following a tense meeting between Ukraine President Zelenskyy and President Trump. Their meeting was supposed to be an opportunity to repair a strained relationship, and make a rare earth minerals deal that would have been a major step in ending Russia's war in Ukraine. Instead, President Zelenskyy cut the visit short after the meeting. READ MORE |Zelenskyy says 'thank you America' after White House visit cut short “We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under...

CHARLEROI, Pa. — The owner of a Charleroi staffing agency pleaded guilty Monday to multiple charges after officials said he harbored illegal aliens for financial gain. In a release from the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western Pennsylvania District's office, 28-year-old Andy Ha pleaded guilty after officials said he harbored illegal aliens for financial gain and failed to pay more than $3 million in employment taxes. From Sept. 2022 to April 2024, the release said, Ha owned a temporary staffing agency called Prosperity Services Inc. The agency provided workers to companies in the Charleroi, Pennsylvania area. As part of the...

Across New Jersey, all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey, but for many in the state, Governor Phil Murphy’s California dreaming has turned into a financial nightmare. Already the highest taxed state in the country, New Jersey, under Murphy also has among the highest gas prices in the country. Now, New Jersey is quickly climbing up the ladder regarding electricity costs. Governor Phil Murphy’s vision to transform New Jersey into the “California of the East” through an aggressive clean energy agenda is facing harsh realities as electricity prices soar and promised renewable energy projects falter.

Three politicians in a small municipality near Philadelphia were indicted this week on charges they tried to fraudulently win the mayoral race in 2021 by producing about three dozen false mail-in ballots. A federal grand jury accused Mohammed Nurul Hasan, Mohammed Munsur Ali and Mohammed Rafikul Islam of conspiring to register people who live outside 1,200-population Millbourne as borough residents, to have mail-in ballots sent to themselves and then to return the completed ballots to the Delaware County elections board. Hasan was serving as vice president of the borough council and had lost the Democratic mayoral primary in the heavily...