Critics: Cuomo apology 'tone-deaf,' ignores power imbalance
When Yuh-Line Niou first arrived in Albany to work as a legislative aide in 2013, lawmakers grabbed her buttocks, suggested she and her boss were “a hot duo” who should have sex, and peered into her office to check her out for a “hot or not” list.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Critics: Cuomo apology 'tone-deaf,' ignores power imbalance
When Yuh-Line Niou first arrived in Albany to work as a legislative aide in 2013, lawmakers grabbed her buttocks, suggested she and her boss were “a hot duo” who should have sex, and peered into her office to check her out for a “hot or not” list.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Critics: Cuomo apology 'tone-deaf,' ignores power imbalance
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When she first arrived in Albany to work as a legislative aide in 2013, New York Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou had lawmakers grab her buttocks, suggest she and her boss were “a hot duo” who should have sex, and peer into her office to check her out …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
US appeals court: Supervised injection site defies drug law
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A divided appeals court on Tuesday rejected a plan to open a supervised injection site in Philadelphia to try to reduce overdose deaths, concluding the operation would violate a 1980s-era drug law aimed at “crackhouses.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
DOJ probe of Catholic church abuse goes quiet 2 years later
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two years ago, the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia joined the long line of ambitious prosecutors investigating the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of priest-abuse complaints.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
DOJ probe of Catholic church abuse goes quiet 2 years later
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two years ago, the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia joined the long line of ambitious prosecutors investigating the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of priest-abuse complaints.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, hopes to overturn his 2018 sex …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, hopes to overturn his 2018 sex …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, as Bill Cosby's legal team
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, hopes to overturn his 2018 sex …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, hopes to overturn his 2018 sex …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction gets high court review
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's lawyers will argue Tuesday that his 2018 sex assault trial was marred by evidence and testimony that should have been excluded as they ask Pennsylvania's highest court to throw out the conviction.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, as Bill Cosby's legal team
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, as Bill Cosby's legal team
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, as Bill Cosby's legal team
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania race
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
US appeals court rejects Trump appeal over Pennsylvania race
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected its latest effort to challenge the state’s election results.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Trump's legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As they frantically searched for ways to salvage President Donald Trump's failed reelection bid, his campaign pursued a dizzying game of legal hopscotch
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
US appeals court weighs law on supervised injection sites
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court became the latest panel to wrestle with the nation’s opioid epidemic as judges reviewed a long-debated plan Monday to open a medically supervised injection site in Philadelphia.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Republicans face court setbacks, Trump law firm steps down
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Republicans suffered setbacks to court challenges over the presidential election in three battleground states on Friday while a law firm that came under fire for its work for President Donald Trump’s campaign withdrew from a major Pennsylvania case.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
US appeals court rejects effort to block late ballots in PA
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Friday rejected an effort led by a Republican congressional candidate to block about 9,300 ballots that arrived after Election Day.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Federal court rejects effort to block late-arriving ballots
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Friday rejected an effort led by a Republican congressional candidate to block about 9,300 ballots that arrived after Election Day.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of fraud
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — During a Pennsylvania court hearing this week on one of the many
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of fraud
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — During a Pennsylvania court hearing this week on one of the many election lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump, a judge asked a campaign lawyer whether he had found any signs of fraud from among the 592 ballots challenged.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts
Republican surrogates for President Donald Trump resumed their legal fight Monday to try to stop the vote count in key battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan, but faced long odds given the Electoral College tally and recent court rulings that found no evidence of widespread vote fraud.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
AP FACT CHECK: Trump fabricates election corruption
WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing “horror stories,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabricated accusations Thursday in an audacious attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. election.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Video, 911 calls released in Walter Wallace police killing
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s district attorney vowed Wednesday to make his own decision about whether to charge two young officers in the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. and not to rely solely on the police investigation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Walter Wallace video set for release; officers identified
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s district attorney vowed Wednesday to make his own decision about whether to charge two young officers in the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. and not to rely solely on the police investigation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Lawyer: Mom, child trapped in crowd when police smashed car
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials plan to release the police body camera footage Wednesday of the encounter that led officers to fatally shoot Walter Wallace Jr., the latest in a line of police killings of Black people to roil the U.S. this year.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Philadelphia police face rebuke from city, Wallace family
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police faced rebuke Thursday from both City Hall and the family of Walter Wallace Jr. as an anguished city bemoaned the department's response to a year of extraordinary, and sometimes violent, civil unrest.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Philadelphia council votes to limit police protest response
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia could soon join other cities in blocking police from using tear gas, rubber bullets or pepper spray on protesters as the city continues to churn over the fatal police shooting of a Black man days before the heated presidential election.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Philadelphia pledges better response after Black man's death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Philadelphia pledges better response after Black man's death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
More than 3M in Pennsylvania apply for mail-in ballots
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A week ahead of the Nov. 3 election, applications in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania for mail-in or absentee ballots exceeded 3 million, with Tuesday the last day to request one and legal wrangling creating uncertainty over the deadline to receive them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
More than 3M in Pennsylvania apply for mail-in ballots
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A week ahead of the Nov. 3 election, applications in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania for mail-in or absentee ballots exceeded 3 million, with Tuesday the last day to request one and legal wrangling creating uncertainty over the deadline to receive them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
US appeals court: Attack on gay man enough for asylum claim
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An asylum seeker from Ghana who said he was attacked by a mob led by his father because of his sexuality has shown a valid fear of persecution, a U.S. appeals case said in a case argued by two law students.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students
WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students
WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
A promising 2020 presidential campaign for women falls short
At her home in suburban Detroit, Jill Warren spent Thursday morning glued to her phone, searching for news about the woman she fiercely believed should be the next president of the United States: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
A promising 2020 presidential campaign for women falls short
At her home in suburban Detroit, Jill Warren spent Thursday morning glued to her phone, searching for news about the woman she fiercely believed should be the next president of the United States: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Judge: Cosby's accuser won't testify before trial
A Pennsylvania judge has denied Bill Cosby's effort to compel the accuser in his criminal sex assault case to testify before trial
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Crane operator turns himself in
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Pennsylvania abortion trial stirs debate on when life ends
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