Saturday, May 31, 2008
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER / The Jersey Journal
The head of the Jersey City Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau was found dead Thursday night in a Pennsylvania motel with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, officials said. (more…)
Categories: New Jersey Police
Holden: License testing ‘outrageous’
BY BEN WOLFGANG / STAFF WRITER
bwolfgang@republicanherald.com
Published: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:57 AM EDT
No English? No problem.
“That’s outrageous,” U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, D-17, said Thursday when discussing policies that allow the use of an interpreter during both the written and skills portions of a driver’s license test. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
“It is pie in the sky to think that this deal will produce $1.1 billion or more annually for 75 years. These kinds of budgeting practices invite future deficits, something they can do in Washington, but we aren’t allowed to do on the state level. We would have to ask taxpayers to fill the gap.” Sen. Logan
TURNPIKE LEASE BID OVERSTATES RETURN TO COMMONWEALTH
OP-ED by State Sen. Sean Logan
The Rendell Administration’s proposed deal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a Spanish firm and invest the proceeds for state transportation funds greatly exaggerates both the true value of the bid and the money the state will earn on that lease payment over the long term. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper · Turnpike Lease
Language not a barrier for some drivers
BY BRANDY RISSMILLER / STAFF WRITER
brissmiller@republicanherald.com / Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:43 AM EDT
On the road to getting a New York driver’s license, language can be no obstacle.
“Being able to read and write the English language is not required of an individual to pass the driver’s exam — both skills and written — in New York,” said Ken Brown, spokesman for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Altercation outside off-duty trooper’s home leads to shots being fired, man’s arrest
BY STACEY SOLIE / The Times Tribune STAFF WRITER
05/27/2008
A city man was arrested hours after he tussled with an off-duty state trooper — an altercation during which several shots were fired — outside the trooper’s West Scranton home early Monday, police said. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
State Police Woes Prompted Trooper to Kill Himself, His Friends Say
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE for The New York Times
Published: May 26, 2008
Only in his last few weeks had Gary A. Berwick’s wife and daughters come home to find him sitting with the lights off. He had begun to retreat into himself, his usual cheer and ebullience melting into a despondent quiet. His friends knew he was saddened and worried, but little more. “There’s a lot of politics,” was all he would say. (more…)
Categories: New York State Police
Ex-trooper suspended in NY state police probe fired by state
By MICHAEL GORMLEY | Associated Press Writer
May 23, 2008
ALBANY, N.Y. - The former trooper at the center of allegations that a rogue state police unit did dirty tricks for two New York governors has been fired from his job at the New York Power Authority, a spokeswoman said Friday. (more…)
Categories: New York State Police
Who freed the cop-killers?
Philadelphia Daily News | May 8, 2008 | MICHAEL P. TREMOGLIE
Once again, a Philadelphia police officer has been shot and killed by a criminal who should have been in prison instead of free to commit more mayhem and destruction. Over the last two years, I’ve written more than a dozen columns about the murders committed by repeat offenders already convicted of a violent felony (sometimes murder) who spent little or no time in prison. (more…)
Categories: 1 · Philadelphia Police
May 20, 2008 / http://www.wetmtv.com/
The incoming chief executive of Pennsylvania state colleges, including Mansfield University, will make more money than the governor. Pennsylvania’s state system of higher education said its new chancellor will make $327-thousand dollars a year. (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell
Former State Police Official, a Guard to Governors, Commits Suicide
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and NATE SCHWEBER
Published: May 17, 2008 / New York Times
A former New York State Police inspector who once headed the governor’s personal security detail committed suicide at his home in Orange County on Thursday, a family friend confirmed on Friday. The inspector, Gary A. Berwick, 48, retired from the State Police last month, shortly after the resignation of the acting State Police superintendent, Preston L. Felton. (more…)
Categories: New York State Police
