Officer hit while probing crash
York Daily Record From staff reports / 10/22/2008
If York City Police Officer Kyle Hower could get a message to his friend, Northern York County Regional Officer David Tome, it would be this: “Your city brothers will miss you.” (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Police
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
BY PETE SHELLEM
Of The Patriot-News
When Eric Sebastian saw his 5-year-old daughter’s school bus drive away with the kindergartner still aboard, he did what almost any parent would do. He gave chase. (more…)
Categories: PA State Police Trooper
Rendell Signs Gun Bill: New Law Gives 20 Years For Targeting Officers
By Bradley Vasoli, The Bulletin / 10/20/2008
Philadelphia – Gov. Ed Rendell, D, signed a bill Friday at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5 imposing mandatory 20-year minimum sentences on offenders who fire on police officers. (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell · Pennsylvania Legislature · Philadelphia Police
Sen. James Rhoades Dies After Crash
Oct 18, 2008 04:47 PM EDT / http://www.wnep.com
State Senator James Rhoades has died from injuries suffered Friday evening in a crash in Monroe County. The three-vehicle wreck also injured two other people, including the senator’s wife, Mary. (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Legislature · Pennsylvania Politics
Categories: Contract 2008
Social Security benefits are going up
Change in cost of living adjustment is sharp departure from recent years (more…)
Categories: COLA
Murtha expects Obama to win Pa.
Says it has taken time for voters to embrace black candidate (more…)
Categories: Pennsylvania Politics
Christine M. Flowers: Patrick McDonald: It’s time to bury the excuses
By Christine M. Flowers
Philadelphia Daily News
WE SHOULD be used to this.
I’m not talking about the murder of heroes. Or the grieving loved ones, faces contorted in pain. The flag-draped coffins. Or the phalanx of blue sending brother and sister officers home with a final, heartbreaking salute. (more…)
Categories: Philadelphia Police
Sarah Palin ‘unlawfully abused power’ in feud with state tooper, report finds
It started as a bitter family dispute over an ugly divorce and allegations ranging from illicit moose hunting to death threats in the small Alaskan town of Wasilla. (more…)
Categories: Alaska State Troopers
