Justice Department Sues PA State Police Over Fitness Tests
The Justice Department is suing the Pennsylvania State Police, saying its physical fitness tests discriminate against women.
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The Justice Department is suing the Pennsylvania State Police, saying its physical fitness tests discriminate against women.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, two juveniles were arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and baking some pot brownies.
"We will not be bullied into changing or lowering our standards by the Department of Justice or anyone else," said Pennsylvania state police commissioner Frank Noonan.
The federal government sued Pennsylvania on Tuesday over physical fitness tests given to applicants for state trooper positions, seeking a stop to a practice that it said illegally discriminates against women.
Authorities say that two young men are dead in eastern Pennsylvania after being struck by a freight train while crossing railroad tracks.
Officials say a total of 932 citations were issued between Thursday, July 3rd, and Sunday, July 6th, with only 35 of those being for DUI.
Police say a Pennsylvania state trooper was injured when the driver of a stolen car struck the trooper's car and the two vehicles then hit a parked U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicle.
Two adults and three children were found dead inside a small cabin in north-central Pennsylvania with "toxic levels" of carbon monoxide in their blood, authorities said.
A Pennsylvania state trooper was found not guilty Monday in a case that charged him with deprivation of civil rights.
Jury deliberations were expected Monday in the trial of a Pennsylvania State Trooper charged with deprivation of civil rights.
Opening statements got underway Tuesday in the case of a Pennsylvania state trooper charged with assaulting a handcuffed man inside the alleged victim's Chester County home.
Anyone with information is asked to call Pennsylvania State Police at 215-452-5216.
The new, $18-million facility will go up on the lawn and parking lot next to the current building.
State police are searching for an unlikely suspect in a Pennsylvania hit-and-run accident: the driver of an Amish buggy.
State police have charged a man with attacking three emergency room nurses when he arrived drunk to visit his mother at a Pennsylvania hospital.
Dr. Walter Hofman, the coroner, says JoAnne Miller was 22 or 23 weeks pregnant when she was killed by a gunshot to the head inside her home in the 3000 block of Stony Creek Road, in East Norriton.
A former Pennsylvania State Trooper who was off-duty and drunk behind the wheel will spend at least six months behind bars in connection with a fiery, deadly crash on the Turnpike near Plymouth Meeting nearly two years ago.
Barry Searfoss has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and DUI, and was sentenced to 6-23 months in prison.
Pennsylvania State police say their investigation into a series of accidents on the Pennsylvania Turnpike outside Philadelphia last week is pointing to multiple causes.
Some have questioned why Pennsylvania Turnpike authorities lifted speed restrictions on the morning of the chain-reaction series of crashes.
Police say Erielys Ahorrio, 3, and John Ahorrio, 4, were abducted from a home on Almanac Avenue in Lancaster City.
Despite the claims of a Pennsylvania state senator, the state police commissioner says those Super Bowl pools run by volunteer clubs are still illegal -- and he says the law will be enforced this Sunday.
Chopper 3 over the scene after authorities say one person is dead after a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. Friday morning.
Police say a man dressed in a Santa suit was struck and killed by a DUI driver along I-95 in Philadelphia late Saturday night.
