An auditor with Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry was arrested by state authorities March 19 and charged with soliciting and receiving bribes in exchange for favorable treatment of businesses insured through the State Workman’s Insurance Fund.
In court papers filed Feb. 27, Pennsylvania’s top health official denies he ever escalated a situation involving a Harrisburg-area diner owner, an incident that the eatery founder claims eventually led to the cabinet-level official attempting to block a state contract deal.
The magisterial district judge who was charged by the state attorney general with illegally fixing her own traffic tickets has been suspended with pay by the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board, according to local news reports.
State law enforcement officials have arrested a magisterial district judge and charged her with conflict of interest and tampering with public records after she was discovered using a court computer system to get rid of three traffic citations that had been issued to her by local police.
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge has reinstated drunken driving charges against a Philadelphia-area lawmaker, more than two months after a lower court judge dismissed the charges against the legislator.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and the state police have lodged additional charges against Jerry Sandusky, the former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach who stands accused of sexually abusing young boys over the period of a decade.
A Pennsylvania company that specializes in the business of cylinder re-qualification and maintenance can move forward with seeking increased damages against a New York-based products manufacturer, after a federal judge last week granted the plaintiff’s motion to file an amended complaint.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed a handful of defendants in a civil suit filed on behalf of relatives of victims of what is said to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history.
John C. Rafferty, a Republican state senator from eastern Pennsylvania, has thrown his name into the mix for those seeking to become the commonwealth’s next top law enforcement official.
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General announced late last week that it has reached an agreement with a Southeastern Pennsylvania man who allegedly promoted art exhibit space for various art shows throughout the United States and Canada, but later failed to provide the space to those promised customers.
The child sex-abuse scandal coming out of Pennsylvania State University has resulted in various criminal charges against the man who allegedly carried out the acts of pedophilia, and those who supposedly turned a blind eye to the years-long incidents of abuse.
A Bucks County, Pa. woman who claims she was initially fired from her waitress job of 10 years after acting as a witness against a manager who was discovered having an extra-marital affair with a female employee, but who was later reinstated, only to be fired a second time a year later, has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against her former employer.
With an increasing number of Americans using smartphones, it’s only logical to conclude that the number of people whipping out the devices to video and audio record situations in public would increase.
A public transit rider who alleges he sustained bodily injuries after the bus on which he was riding was struck by a U.S. Army-owned vehicle, causing him to get knocked around in the process, has filed a federal lawsuit against the other driver, the U.S. Department of the Army and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
Seven area black woman who claim their respective firings from the Vanguard Group were racially motivated have filed a federal lawsuit against the Malvern, Pa.-based company.
A Philadelphia woman who alleges she sustained head injuries after being struck by an overhead security gate at a local Home Depot store is suing the hardware chain.
A Philadelphia couple has filed a product liability lawsuit against the makers of a chair that the husband was sitting on during the course of his employment that broke and threw him to the floor.