A Pennsylvania college removed “thin blue line” coronavirus face masks from its campus bookstore last month after receiving complaints from students and the school’s multicultural office, with one staff member linking the symbol to White supremacy and the alt-right. Muhlenberg College’s Office of Multicultural Life said it was notified by multiple students on Aug. 14…
A Pennsylvania teenager was shot and killed Saturday while attempting to outrun a registered sex offender, according to police. The suspect, 45-year-old Orlando P. Duarte, is facing charges of criminal homicide and prohibited possession of a firearm. Criminal records show that Orlando P. Duarte is registered as a lifetime sex offender for raping a child. (HPD)The…
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) warned Pennsylvania officials in July that the state's election deadlines were too tight for the service's "delivery standards" and could result in mail-in ballots being delayed for several days.The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that a letter dated July 29 warned state officials that “certain deadlines for requesting and casting mail-in ballots are…
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is hiring 1,000 additional contract tracers to bolster the state's efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks by quickly notifying people who might have been exposed.The Health Department on Friday announced a $23 million, federally funded contract with Atlanta-based staffing agency Insight Global to recruit, hire and train the new workers, who…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…