ACLU Suing Nutter Over 'Stop And Frisk'
The ACLU is taking Mayor Nutter to court over the controversial police policy of "stop and frisk" -- a tactic that the civil rights group says is being used to target minorities.
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The ACLU is taking Mayor Nutter to court over the controversial police policy of "stop and frisk" -- a tactic that the civil rights group says is being used to target minorities.
Political candidates from across Delaware are gathering to make amends after this year's campaigns and symbolically bury the hatchet.
Nutter says, "The campaign is over. Now, we have to figure out how we'll all have to work together."
For a lot of voters on Tuesday it was an afterthought, but come next year Harrisburg will see a major power shift just as the state is facing an enormous financial crisis. That could affect Philadelphia and its Pennsylvania suburbs for decades.
Katz has run unsuccessfully for mayor three times, and he says that he will announce very shortly, perhaps within a week, whether he'll move forward with a fourth try.
Sam Smith, the man in line to become speaker now that Republicans have regained control, was groomed for leadership by Rep. John Perzel of Philadelphia.
The absentee ballots won't affect the outcome of the race between Mike Fitzpatrick and Patrick Murphy, but there are still at least two state legislative races that hang in the balance.
Republican Tom Corbett, the state attorney general who shook up the Pennsylvania Capitol with his prosecution of corruption in the Legislature, sailed past Democratic opponent Dan Onorato on Tuesday to claim the governorship of a state President Barack Obama carried just two years ago.
John Adler conceded the race, saying he wants Runyan to succeed.
A discrepancy over the Minority Poll Watcher position in the South Ward in South Philadelphia created some confusion. The incident caused the polling place to shut down briefly.
Pennsylvania House majority leader Todd Eachus (D) and former House speaker John Perzel (R) are among the Pennsylvania legislative candidates to lose re-election bids.
Democratic US Rep. Allyson Schwartz has been re-elected to represent Pennsylvania's 13th District.
CBS News was projecting that when all the votes were counted, the Republicans would have regained control of the US House of Representatives.
At the University of Pennsylvania, where first lady Michelle Obama visited this week, there's been a huge push to get out the vote.
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