Pennsylvania State Police

2020 Campaign 09/25/20, 05:22

A Pennsylvania executive department responsible for enforcing the law and administering justice will examine a small number of postal voting papers trashed or otherwise disappeared. The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed an official investigation with the cooperation of the Luzerne County Board of Elections into exactly how nine military ballots ...

U.S. 05/22/20, 04:06

A senior official, who is responsible for overseeing the entire election process and voter activities on polling day, agreed to receive the penalty for electoral fraud. Former Judge of Elections Domenick DeMuro pleaded guilty to interfering with the outcome of the 2016, 2015, and 2014 primary elections in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DeMuro, ...

U.S. 04/30/19, 14:59

A 20-year-old man entered a home's unlocked front door, snatched a 4-year-old girl from her bed and bound and stuffed her into a wooden trunk at his grandparents' house, telling police he'd been scoping out children who he thought lived in "deplorable conditions," according to a criminal complaint. The child was ...

U.S. 03/22/19, 00:03

East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld did everything by the book in his fatal encounter with an unarmed black teenager outside Pittsburgh last summer, a defense expert says.Testifying at Rosfeld's homicide trial, retired Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Clifford W. Jobe Jr. maintained Rosfeld followed proper procedure when he shot and ...

U.S. 03/18/19, 11:24

Pennsylvania State Police acted recklessly when troopers used a bulldozer to pursue a Grateful Dead fan caught growing marijuana on public land, killing him when he wound up under the machine's treads, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.Greg Longenecker's family said state police had no business chasing him ...

U.S. 02/24/19, 14:25

The latest effort by Gov. Tom Wolf to impose a fee on municipalities that rely on state troopers, instead of a local police force, is generating new conversations, if not an embrace, as budget makers try to end the constitutionally questionable use of highway dollars to underwrite the Pennsylvania State ...

Pennsylvania 10/25/18, 19:47

By StaffAn attorney for Chester County District Attorney Thomas P. Hogan fired back at the state police union on Wednesday, filing objections to a lawsuit faulting the prosecutor for a list of law enforcement officers his office blocks from testifying in court and objecting to an internal memo criticizing the actions of ...

U.S. 10/04/18, 12:58

The Pennsylvania State Police say they regret any damage that occurred last weekend when one of their helicopters flew low over a tailgating crowd before the Penn State-Ohio State game, sending tents and other items flying.The agency released a statement Thursday that says it's "fully cooperating" with an investigation of ...