8/15/2008 12:43:00 AM
Rivera sentenced to death in Reading officer’s killing
By Holly Herman / Reading Eagle
Tension filled the Berks County courtroom when jurors deciding Cletus C. Rivera’s fate returned to announce their verdict Thursday morning. Keep reading →
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BY KELLY MONITZ / STAFF WRITER
Published: Sunday, August 10, 2008
State police Trooper James Surmick saw cars pulling over and stopping on the northbound Interstate 81 on-ramp Monday night and thought he was approaching an accident. Keep reading →
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August 8, 2008
Grants fund cake, condos, too / Gov. delivers $15M for projects
BILL O ’ BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com
HAZLE TWP. – Ed Rendell’s bus pulled into Luzerne County on Thursday and the governor dropped off nearly $15 million in funding for four projects.
All four are private development projects being helped by tax funds. Keep reading →
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Lester Coslic is the go-to man when they want the job done
By MADOLIN EDWARDS / Daily American Staff Writer
Monday, August 4, 2008
BERLIN - “Once Lester Coslic starts something, he stays with it 100 percent,” said Tom Calvert, of Berlin. “He’s at it whole-hearted and it will get done. He’s the kind of individual you want if you want the job done.”
Coslic is well-known throughout the Berlin community, not just as a retired state police trooper and mayor, but also as a supporter of the Boy Scouts, church, Lions Club, Berlin Food Pantry and a variety of other groups. Keep reading →
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8/2/2008
Jury selection done for trial of man charged with killing Reading policeman
By Holly Herman / Reading Eagle
A jury of 10 men and two women will determine the fate of 26-year-old Cletus C. Rivera, charged in the August 2006 slaying of a Reading policeman. Keep reading →
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08/02/2008
Spencer: Guv takes affirmative action with move
By Gil Spencer, Times Columnist
Congratulations are in order.
Pennsylvania is the very first state in the union to have its very own Diversity Management Officer.
Gov. Ed Rendell announced the creation of the Office of Diversity Management last week. Keep reading →
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Jul 30, 12:25 AM EDT
AP: Abuses by Pa. constables persist; reform urged
By MARK SCOLFORO /Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Valerie Hubbard was half asleep in her 11-year-old son’s bedroom just before midnight - they had been watching “Ratatouille” on DVD - when three constables crashed through the locked first-floor door of her apartment house. Keep reading →
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Alaskan Republican indicted in corruption inquiry
Elana Schor and Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Wednesday July 30 2008
Republican hopes in November’s White House and congressional elections suffered a fresh setback yesterday when the party’s longest-serving senator was charged with falsifying his financial records to hide gifts he received from an oil services company. Keep reading →
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Saturday, Jul. 26, 2008
Gunman killed
Officers dodge SUV, bullets at Cato Park
By Pete Bosak and Jennifer Thomas- Centredaily.com
FERGUSON TOWNSHIP — A mentally ill man armed with a shotgun, apparently bent on reaching a radio station in Cato Park, slammed his SUV into two police cars and opened fire on officers before dying in a hail of gunfire Friday morning. Keep reading →
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Trooper accused of arranging child-sex meeting
By STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News / Posted on Fri, Jul. 25, 2008
Randy Gregory was watching “COPS” Wednesday night when police officers swarmed his Delaware County home. He wondered if he had unpaid parking tickets or fines, never imagining that the police were there for one of their own - a state trooper who lived upstairs. Keep reading →
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