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January 5, 2024 | 9:20 AM

Hershey sued for $5M over missing ‘cute’ face on Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins

By Megan Lim/NPR

April 17, 2023 | 2:28 PM

Pennsylvania unnecessarily keeping people in state hospitals, lawsuit states

By Kate Giammarise/WESA

April 9, 2023 | 10:14 AM

What to know about the Donald Trump-E. Jean Carroll trial that is set to begin this month

This month’s trial concerns the allegations made in 2019 by the advice columnist and author E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.

By Becky Sullivan/NPR

January 23, 2023 | 5:00 AM

Fox News’ defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

In countering Dominion, Fox’s lawyers offer a chart of offending statements and what it termed the “omitted context” that could explain why the material was newsworthy.

By David Folkenflik/NPR

January 3, 2023 | 5:35 AM

Still awaiting ruling, Pennsylvania’s school funding lawsuit stretches into 2023

The School District of Lancaster and the Shenandoah Valley School District are a part of the suit.

By Aubri Juhasz/WHYY

December 4, 2022 | 7:29 AM

Parents of gunman settle suit over State Police barracks ambush in 2014

The Freins had vehemently denied responsibility

By The Associated Press

November 17, 2022 | 5:24 AM

Pennsylvania schools join lawsuit against e-cigarette company JUUL

William Marshall, superintendent of Penn Cambria School District, says vaping isn’t just a problem in the high school anymore — they’ve also seen it in the middle school.

By Katie Knol/WPSU

October 9, 2022 | 8:24 AM

A parents’ lawsuit accuses Amazon of selling suicide kits to teenagers

Amazon is selling a product that is as deadly as cyanide,” Carrie Goldberg and Naomi Leeds, two attorneys for the families, said in a statement.

By Joe Hernandez/NPR

August 5, 2022 | 5:33 AM

A jury says InfoWars’ Alex Jones must pay 2 Sandy Hook parents more than $4 million

"I am a mother, first and foremost, and I know that you're a father. And my son existed."

By John Burnett and Dustin Jones/NPR

July 27, 2022 | 5:05 AM

What kind of education does Pennsylvania owe its public school students? A judge will now decide

The petitioners — including the School District of Lancaster and the Shenandoah Valley School District in Schuylkill County — have been arguing Pennsylvania’s school system is so underfunded, it violates the state constitution.

By Katie Meyer/WHYY

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