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A patient at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, has claimed he was raped by a female nurse during his stay.Police told NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez they were investigating the claims.According to the police report, the 65-year-old man was staying at the hospital after a motorcycle accident.The alleged sexual assault happened on February 27 at 3:30 a.m. inside a hospital bathroom.The man said a ...
Underneath all the arcane legal fencing in this week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on marriage lies a basic question: Why should the justices take on the job of redefining marriage laws for the nation?Is it the best venue for making decisions that could fundamentally change social institutions such as marriage? Is it the courts, in the person of unelected life-tenured justices? Or is it the democ...
After two days of highly anticipated courtroom arguments about same-sex marriage, a sweeping ruling on gay rights seems unlikely from the U.S. Supreme Court. But when decisions in both cases come in late June, the result may nonetheless be an important one for advocates of same-sex marriage.Though it's risky to predict how the court will rule based solely on comments by the justices during the ora...
A former U.S. soldier has been charged with fighting with an al Qaeda group in Syria after allegedly posting photographs of himself posing with military hardware on the internet, officials said in a statement.Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, Ariz., was accused of using a rocket-propelled grenade while fighting with the al-Nusrah Front, an alias of al Qaeda in Iraq, according to a statement issued on ...
The Obama administration will unveil a proposal Friday to clean up gasoline and automobile emissions, a step that officials say will result in cleaner air across the U.S. and slightly higher prices at the pump. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the rule to reduce sulfur in gasoline and tighten emissions standards on cars beginning in 2017 could increase gas prices by less tha...
A former Pennsylvania state trooper killed his estranged wife on Thursday before taking his own life in a Decatur Township grocery store, according to state police and local media.Investigators said Mark Miscavish, 51, went to the County Market, where his wife Traci worked, found her in an upstairs office and shot her with a shotgun before shooting himself at about 10 a.m.Traci Miscavish, 49, file...
Colorado prosecutors say an offer by lawyers representing mass-murder suspect James Holmes — to plead guilty in exchange for not seeking the death penalty — amounts to a publicity stunt and may violate a gag order attorneys signed in the case.Holmes is accused of killing 12 and injuring 70 movie-goers at the premiere of a Batman film in Aurora, Colo., on July 20.On Wednesday, defense lawyers filed...
The Obama administration will unveil a proposal Friday to clean up gasoline and automobile emissions, a step that will result in cleaner air across the U.S.But refiners claim it will raise the price of gasoline at the pump.The EPA estimates the rule to reduce sulfur and tighten emissions standards will increase gas prices by less than a penny per gallon. But the agency says it will yield billions ...
