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Former Philadelphia DA Lynne Abraham Hints At Run For Statewide Office
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Former Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham, who left office more than a year ago, is hinting she might be interested in a return to public service. Abraham, the first...
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Philadelphia Official Fired For Accepting Unauthorized Gifts From Vendor
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A high level city worker has been axed after he was found accepting gifts — including iPods and designer bags — from a vendor. Joseph James, the city’s deputy chief information...
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Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania’s Longest Serving US Senator, Dead at 82
By Mark Abrams PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — US Senator Arlen Specter, whose political career took him from Philadelphia City Hall to the US Congress, died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia at the...
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Philadelphia DA Says Mayor Is Underbudgeting Fighting Crime
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s district attorney is criticizing the mayor for not boosting his budget amid the rising cost of putting criminals behind bars. DA Seth Williams went...
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New Book Traces Sad Recent History of Priest Sex Scandals
By John Ostapkovich PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It’s a story we know all too well in Philadelphia, but a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist has now put the whole Catholic priest sex scandal in one volume....
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Man Charged With Scamming WW II Vet of $95,000 By Impersonating Phila. DA
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –- A Philadelphia man was charged today with stealing over $95,000 from an elderly man in the Cobbs Creek section of the city — in part by impersonating district...
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Son Recalls Career of Late Philadelphia DA, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, once one of Philadelphia’s most prominent criminal defense attorneys and a former district attorney, has passed away at age 84. Fitzpatrick...
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Philadelphia Tourism Agency ‘Cooperating’ With DA Probe of Misappropriation
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — An attorney for a group that promotes tourism in Philadelphia says they are “fully cooperating” with an investigation by the city district attorney into how the...
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Lynne Abraham Plans To Run For Mayor of Philadelphia in 2015
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Former Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham will be joining in next year’s race for mayor, according to her political consultant. On the very day that attorney...
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Five Dozen More Convictions Tied To Corrupt Phila. Cop Are Overturned
By Paul Kurtz PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Dozens more convicted criminals will be set free as a result of the actions of a corrupt Philadelphia police officer. Judge Sheila Woods-Skipper has dismissed 59...
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Former Phila. DA Lynne Abraham Makes It Official: She’s Running For Mayor
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Former Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham, who held sway over the city’s criminal justice system for nearly 20 years, is now officially a candidate for...
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Charges Dropped Against Holmesburg Teen; DA Questions Story of Blind ‘Victim’
By Tony Hanson, Walt Hunter PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It had been a remarkable story of a hero guide dog, calling 911 to save her blind owner during a home invasion. But now charges against a neighbor have...
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DA Won’t File Charges in December’s Deadly Shooting of Motorist By Phila. Police
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20150319181854297AA.mp4 By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s district attorney says there will be no charges filed against the police officer...
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Phila. DA Williams Warns Schoolkids About Bullying and Cyberbullying
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20150416174746507AA.mp4 By Mark Abrams PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Middle school students at a Christian private school in West Philadelphia heard today from the...
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DA Seth Williams Wants To See Pre-K Ballot Question Approved
By Mike DeNardo PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s district attorney is urging voters to approve a question on tomorrow’s ballot that would create a panel to recommend a plan for provide for universal...
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