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. (more…)
Categories: PA Constables
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. (more…)
Categories: U.S. Senate
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. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
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. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Trooper Suspended after Arrest
July 23, 2008 03:55 PM
By Sarah Buynovsky / WNEP.com
A state police corporal finds himself on the other side of the law, charged with assault and intimidating of a witness. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper · Troop N
Police spying prompts hearings
State lawmakers plan inquiry into agency’s activities
By Laura Smitherman | Sun reporter
July 22, 2008
State lawmakers are planning formal hearings on Maryland State Police efforts to spy on peace activists and death penalty protesters, potentially paving the way for a thorny debate in the next General Assembly session over whether to restrict the law enforcement agency’s authority. (more…)
Categories: Maryland State Police
Pennsylvania Lottery sales hit record high, but revenues decline
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG — While total sales of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets hit an all-time high of more than $3 billion in fiscal year 2007-08, net revenues to the state Lottery Fund, which pays for senior citizens programs, continued a modest three-year decline. (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell · Pennsylvania Legislature
Chesco’s Pawlowski’s background leads to state slot
07/21/2008 / Phoenixvillenews.com
Long before Lt. Col. Frank Pawlowski moved up to the Pennsylvania State Police headquarters in Harrisburg, he worked a slew of criminal investigations in Chester County. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
A bit of fairness on state police costs
Themorningcall.com July 22, 2008
One of the reasons life is good in Pennsylvania’s suburban townships — at least as far as having taxes that are lower than in the cities and built-up boroughs — is that folks there do a bit of freeloading when it comes to police protection. That is, unless they have their own departments ( Whitehall and Lower Saucon are Lehigh Valley examples) or join in with other municipalities in regional ventures, (Colonial Regional in Northampton County is one), they rely upon the Pennsylvania State Police to protect and serve. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
