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Philadelphia will stop keeping a portion of defendants’ bail
Philadelphia says it will no longer keep a portion of defendants’ bail deposits even if they appear for court hearings.
 
Ex Pennsylvania governor joins safe injection site effort
A Philadelphia nonprofit says it plans on opening the city’s and possibly the country’s first supervised drug injection site with the help of former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.
 
Young girl injured in crash sues city over police chase
A young girl seriously injured after a high-speed chase with police ended in a head-on collision is suing the city of Pittsburgh and the Port Authority Transit of Allegheny County.
 
Fired cop who shot fleeing man in back charged with homicide
A fired white Philadelphia police officer was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide for fatally shooting a black man in the back last year. Officer Ryan Pownall had pulled over 30-year-old David Jones for riding a dirt bike on a city street.
 
White police officer charged in fatal shooting of black teen
A white Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of an unarmed black teenager who was shot in the back while fleeing a traffic stop.
 
Lawyer: Charges not merited in death of McMaster’s father
An attorney for a woman charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of the father of former national security adviser H.R.
 
Facility faulted in death of former Trump adviser’s father
A Health Department report says administrators failed in their essential duties at a Philadelphia senior care facility where the father of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser died in April. The 141-page report says Herbert R.
 
FBI: Probe shows no evidence of attack in border agent death
FBI officials say the investigation into the November death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has yielded no evidence that there was a “scuffle, altercation or attack.”
 
12 Texas inmates are serving banned juvenile life sentence
A dozen Texas inmates are serving a sentence the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year was unconstitutional because they were younger than 18 when they committed their crimes.
 
Ghoulish online game urges young people to end their lives
The family of a Texas teen who hanged himself says their son was involved in a ghoulish online game that calls on participants to complete a series of tasks before taking their own lives.
 
Drugmaker asked Arkansas not to use drug in executions
Letters obtained by The Associated Press show a drugmaker asked Arkansas not to purchase its products for executions months before the state accepted a third-party “donation” of potassium chloride to use in lethal injections.
 
Officials: Callers saw a pickup swerving before Texas crash
Law enforcement officials from two Texas departments say they received phone calls about a pickup driving erratically shortly before a collision between a truck and church bus in southwest Texas that killed 13 people returning from a retreat.
 
Immigrants find sanctuary in growing Austin church network
The Austin Sanctuary Network of churches offering shelter to immigrants in the liberal Texas city is growing rapidly since President Donald Trump was elected.
 
Boy Scouts allows transgender kids into boys-only programs
The Boy Scouts of America has decided to allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys-only programs. The organization announced Monday that the change goes into effect immediately.
 
Boy Scouts will allow transgender children into programs
The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs.
 
Newsweek reporter seeks ID of Twitter user after seizure
A Newsweek reporter who has epilepsy said he had a seizure after being sent a message on Twitter intended to trigger such an episode and is seeking information from the social media company to identify the person responsible.
 
Judge says Dallas police and fire pension vote can happen
A Texas judge has denied a request to stop members of the ailing Dallas Police and Fire Pension system from voting on benefit reductions.
 
Arkansas ethics panel says governor OK to campaign
The Arkansas Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against Gov. Asa Hutchinson alleging he violated state law by campaigning for a state Senate candidate during office hours.
 
Witness: Arkansas boy died days before disappearance report
The affidavit and other documents were unsealed by a White County Circuit Court judge a day after police said they found Malik’s body in a rural area about 50 miles northeast of where he was reported missing from his father’s home in November 2014. The toddler’s father, Jeffery Clifton, was being he
 
Little Rock officials weigh renaming Confederate Boulevard
City officials are expected to consider a petition Thursday to rename the boulevard’s last few blocks after one of the area’s first black property owners. Coincidentally, the planning commission’s vote comes 58 years to the day that 1,200 troops arrived to escort nine black students to their first d
 
Fewer students study botany, more plant collections closing
Since 1988, the number of research universities offering botany degrees has dropped by half, according to National Science Foundation research funding statistics. And the National Center for Education Statistics reports that fewer than 400 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral botany degrees were awa
 
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