A billboard in Harrisburg, Pa., depicting a shackled black slave and a biblical passage that reads, “Slaves, obey your masters” has angered some local residents and prominent community members who consider the imagery racist and inappropriate. SEE ALSO: Nothing Is Determined By Super Tuesday The roadside ad was paid for by atheist activist groups, American […]
Surveillance video of an Allentown, Pennsylvania, police officer firing a Taser at a 14-year-old girl has been released as part of evidence for a federal lawsuit filed against the officer and the city. SEE ALSO: If Obama Loses, What Will He Do Next?
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia-area teen says he was denied admission to the private boarding school supported by the Hershey chocolate company because he’s HIV-positive.
Wayne, PA — A mother and her one-year-old son were allegedly robbed at gunpoint outside a Starbucks just before 10 a.m. Thursday morning. After fleeing on foot, the thief allegedly spent more than $900 — mostly in gift cards — on the woman’s credit card at a nearby Target. Both mother and child were unharmed. […]
PHILADELPHIA-Christopher Abreu a student at the Ivy League School, University Of Pennsylvania has written an article urging minorities not to attend his school after a racist incident. The Pennsylvania caller reports: “I’m looking for fried chicken,” he continued. “You look like someone who knows where you can get fried chicken.” I needed to remove myself […]
CHESTER, Pa. — A judge wanting to send a message about violence in a crime-ridden Philadelphia suburb jailed a 16-year-old shooting suspect on $2.5 million bail on Monday, three days after a guard spotted him with a gun outside a social hall where a shooting killed two teens and wounded eight other people. ALSO READ: […]
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania– Police had no trouble identifying a Harrisburg man who was accused of robbing a bank because he provided identification to open a new account prior to crime, authorities say. Tellers told police that Daniel E. Rahynes, 35, started an application, then announced to tellers, he was “actually there to rob the bank”. Rahynes […]
Pennsylvania– A woman who was arrested after a picture surfaced of her daughter duct-taped to a chair has been released after posting bail. Caira Ferguson, 21, must only see her daughter under supervision of welfare officials, wear a monitoring bracelet, and is also required to take a parenting class.
Pennsylvania– A Southeastern Pennsylvania woman has been charged with endangerment over a photograph of a toddler bound to a chair with duct tape covering her mouth. Police say that during questioning, Caira Ferguson admitted to taping her daughter to the chair last summer. Ferguson was arrested Wednesday because of outstanding warrants, police told NBC Philadelphia.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Fire officials say three people died and two remain missing after a natural gas explosion rocked a downtown neighborhood in eastern Pennsylvania last night.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania– A high school has defended its decision to segregate students by race and gender. The scheme, at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, separates black students from the rest of the school pupils, and then further breaks it down into black females and black males.
LANCASTER, PA-McCaskey East High School in Lancaser, Pennslyvania is experimenting with having separate homerooms for African American Students in order to boost African American academic performance. Lancaster Online reports: The idea originated with Angela Tilghman, a McCaskey East instructional coach who was alarmed at the poor academic performance of the school’s black students. Only about […]
