Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG — House Republicans, claiming there are problems with two of the 11 casinos licensed by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, have introduced bills to reduce the board’s power. (more…)
Categories: Gaming · PA State Police Trooper
Police trooper attacked by dog during West End arrest
Pocono Record / April 30, 2008
A State Police trooper was taken to the hospital on Monday after he was attacked by a woman’s 200-pound dog while trying to arrest her in Eldred Township. (more…)
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State Trooper From Buffalo Speaks About Hit and Run
April 29, 2008, Buffalo, New York
wkbw.com Channel 7 News
By Laura Gray
Watch the story A Pennsylvania State Trooper’s dash cam captures the terrifying moment. Trooper Andrew Falcon, a Buffalo native, was writing a ticket near Philadelphia. Another vehicle passes and it’s side mirror knocks Falcon right into the car.. “As you can tell I was momentarily stunned. But ultimately I reverted back to my training. I took a deep breath and I knew I had to get out of harms way.” (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Civil rights lawsuit filed against state police in Blairsville dentist’s murder
By Paul Peirce / TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, April 28, 2008
The estate of an Indiana County dentist brutally murdered two years ago, allegedly at the hands of a state trooper, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Harrisburg against several troopers and the dentist’s wife. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Pa. blames missing primary votes on clerical error
April 28, 2008
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania election officials revised their unofficial vote count Monday for the presidential primary after determining that a clerical error had kept about 26,000 votes out of the state tally. (more…)
Categories: Election 2008
Former Perry County state trooper faces assault charges
Steven Seaforth is accused of choking his estranged wife in May 2007
By Heather Stauffer, Sentinel Reporter, April 23, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:52 PM EDT
Pennsylvania State Police today announced the filing of assault charges against Steven A. Seaforth, who was a state trooper for 17 years before retiring on Feb. 29. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Woman charged in trooper death
Cops: Drunk driver was 4 times over legal limit. Lancaster New Era
Published: Apr 22, 2008
11:15 EST
By JANET KELLEY, Staff
A motorist responsible for a traffic accident that claimed the life of a Lancaster state trooper last month had a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit, officials said today. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
April 21, 2008
Charges filed in Pa. state trooper’s death
Associated Press
AVONDALE, Pa. - State police plan to answer questions Tuesday about charges being filed in the hit-run death of a state trooper. A news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. (more…)
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Posted by BRETT LIEBERMAN, Of The Patriot-News April 19, 2008
PHILADELPHIA — They loved her hair, they smacked her butt, there was hooting, hollering and a whole lot of hugging going on Friday night as Chelsea Clinton hit Philadelphia’s gay bars for what campaign aides called a “gay pub crawl.” (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell
April 17, 2008
Teller Helped Police Officer Rob Bank, Authorities Say
By Sewell Chan / The New York Times
Federal prosecutors today charged a bank teller with robbery, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making false statements, saying she helped a New York City police officer, Christian A. Torres, carry out two robberies of a Sovereign Bank branch in Lower Manhattan last year, stealing more than $118,000. (more…)
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