Week In Review

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) announced the return of more than $2.4 million in licensing fees to 1,379 municipalities in which licensees are located. Twice a year, as required by law, the PLCB returns liquor license fees paid by PLCB-approved licensees to the municipalities that are home to those licenses. Municipalities have…

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ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKLAND, Calif.  — A U.S. judge in California on Monday reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration’s plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled in Oakland that an injunction blocking the administration’s policy from taking effect should apply nationwide. Tigar blocked…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Hidden Lives Illuminated; Justino and Lead Teaching Artist Erika Tsuchiya-Bergere play his animation sequence in a zoetrope cylinder during classes at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Chester. (Photographer: Richard Patterson) By Kristen De Groot ASSOCIATED PRESS Ezra has been locked up for about 45 years. In that time, he’s taken the opportunities…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Rapper Meek Mill, center, speaks to a crowd after exiting the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge on Tuesday in a deal that spared him additional prison time, resolving a case that followed the rapper most of his adult life and turned…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this Monday, Sept. 2, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard Station Clearwater, boats litter the area around marina in the Bahamas after they were tossed around by Hurricane Dorian. The storm pounded away at the islands in a watery onslaught that devastated thousands of homes, trapped people in attics and…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Kevin Hart (Photo: Shutterstock) ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Comic actor Kevin Hart’s wife says he’s “going to be just fine” following a weekend car crash that left him with a major back injury. Eniko Hart was questioned by a TMZ reporter while visiting him at the hospital Monday. She gave no details…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Rapper Meek Mill departs from the criminal justice center in Philadelphia after a status hearing, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. A decision on whether Mill will be retried in a drug and gun case has been delayed until later this month. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) By Maryclaire Dale ASSOCIATED PRESS Meek Mill pleaded guilty to…

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 District Attorney Larry Krasner on Tuesday issued the following statement on the resolution of Commonwealth v. Robert Williams (Meek Mill): “Today, Robert Williams (Meek Mill) pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor firearms violation that he committed at the time of his arrest in Philadelphia more than a decade ago. All other charges have been dropped. His…

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By Sean Murphy ASSOCIATED PRESS NORMAN, Okla.— An Oklahoma judge on Monday found that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay in a settlement. Cleveland County District Judge Thad…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Activists with Black Lives Matter protest in New York, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in the wake of a decision by federal prosecutors who declined to bring civil rights charges against New York City police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK —…

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