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Baltimore has high rate of staff-inmate sex
The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Justice System, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Black Guerrilla Family
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Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...Tags: Jim Gerlach, Richard Nixon, Americans for Prosperity, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Allyson Y Schwartz
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Fraud report highlights need to stay vigilant
Pennsylvania ranks high in a new report on fraud, and the common scams highlighted in the report continue to dog victims in the Lehigh Valley. A Lower Macungie Township man was conned out of $300 this month in one of those swindles. He was duped into...Tags: Allentown, Justice System, FedEx Corporation, Computer Crime, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Pennsylvania getting swept into national 'Common Core' education debate
HARRISBURG — In the last three years, the Bethlehem Area School District and other districts have spent lots of money rewriting curriculum and lessons to prepare students for tougher state-sanctioned academic standards and exams. "It's got to be...Tags: Science and Technology, Government, Andrew E. Dinniman, Parties and Movements, Edward G. Rendell
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Local professionals sanctioned by licensing boards
Watchdog with Paul MuschickThese disciplinary and licensing actions were announced recently by Pennsylvania's licensing boards against professionals who live and work in the Lehigh Valley area. The information is taken verbatim from the PA Department of State's website, where you... -
Hires and promotions at Lehigh Valley companies
Chang Xu has been appointed to platform leader of polymer encapsulation at Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Tidewood facility. Xu holds a doctorate from City University of New York as well as a bachelor of science degree from the University of...Tags: Allentown, Science and Technology, East Carolina University, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), East Stroudsburg University
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Awards and honors for Lehigh Valley residents
Bill Henry, of Bethlehem, spent the majority of his life training students to excel in technical careers. Now, the William L. Henry Apprenticeship and Craft Training Center bears his name. The school in Kulpsville, Montgomery County, which opened in 2008,...Tags: Electronics, Science and Technology, Washington, DC, Kissimmee, U.S. Postal Service
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Interests of candidate, supporter and spouse align
WASHINGTON — An issue at the top of U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz's legislative agenda is also of foremost concern to her biggest campaign contributor: the University of Pennsylvania, where her husband is a doctor. Schwartz, a suburban Philadelphia...
Tags: Health Insurance, General Practitioners, Allyson Y Schwartz, Health and Safety at School, University of Pennsylvania
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High court considers mandatory retirement for judges
HARRISBURG — When Pennsylvania last voted to amend the state Constitution in 1968, it adopted a provision to ensure that judges didn't stay on the bench longer than their minds stayed sharp. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court heard arguments...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Judges, Voting
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Baltimore police choose new internal affairs leader
The Baltimore Police Department tapped one of its lawyers as the new head of internal affairs, saying Rodney Hill's experience as an officer and his recent turn as a prosecutor of police misconduct cases give him the credibility to lead a group charged...
Tags: Prosecution, Towson, Baltimore Police Department, Morgan State University, Anthony W. Batts
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Guns, cash and pickup stolen in armed home invasion
Two men forced their way into a Montgomery County home early Wednesday and tied up the home owner at gunpoint to steal cash, guns and a pickup truck. The two robbers waited for the 42-year-old male resident outside his home in the 2900 block of...Tags: Kutztown, Theft, Criminals
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Poll: Three Democratic challengers would easily beat Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in 2014 contest
Republican Gov. Tom Corbett would get trounced by any one of three Democrats if the gubernatorial election were held today, in part because he would lose the independent and female vote by large margins, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll....Tags: Environmental Cleanup, Allentown, Government, York (York, Pennsylvania), Michael J Stack
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