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Girl shot by relative after being mistaken for a skunk
A 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl was hospitalized Saturday after being shot by a relative who mistook her for a skunk because of her Halloween costume. The Beaver County Times reported that the girl, who was not identified by authorities, was walking over a hillside in New Sewickley Township wearing a black…
Harris-Perry: ‘Disgusting’ voter-suppression tactics still spreading
On her show Saturday, Melissa Harris-Perry addressed some of the newer, more subtle voter-suppression tactics being reported not only in several states, but now in different languages. Besides billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin threatening enormous fines and prison sentences for “voter fraud,” Harris-Perry noted the appearance of a Spanish-language billboard…
Voter ID battle moves to South Carolina after Pennsylvania ruling
The battle over voting rights in the November presidential election now swings to South Carolina, following the decision by the Pennsylvania courts on Tuesday to delay implementation of a voter ID requirement in that state. All eyes are now on the legal tussle between the department of justice and South Carolina, where probably…
Pennsylvania attempts to salvage voter ID law by easing requirements
Officials in Pennsylvania on Tuesday attempted to save the states’s voter photo ID law by easing restrictions just days before a court was poised to block the measure. Under the new guidelines, voters will no longer have to present two documents showing where they live to be issued a photo…
Man accused of ‘Tebowing’ after assaulting 17-year-old boy
Police in Shenango Township, Pennsylvania on Wednesday announced that they had arrested a 53-year-old man who they say prayed in a “Tebow” pose after assaulting a 17-year-old boy in August. The Shenango Township Police Department said that David Edward McCosby had confessed to assaulting the teen and was charged with…
Jon Stewart rips apart voter suppression laws in Pennsylvania and Ohio
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted Republicans in Pennsylvania and Ohio for attempting to suppress votes in the upcoming November elections. Noting that there have been only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud since 2000, Stewart slammed Pennsylvania for enacting a tough new voter…
Republican judge blocks rights groups’ suit over Pennsylvania voter ID law
In Pennsylvania, a Commonwealth Court judge has rejected a suit brought by the ACLU, the NAACP and others to block the state’s stringent new voter ID law, according to the Philadelphia Enquirer‘s website Philly.com. Judge Robert E. Simpson, elected to the bench as a Republican in 2001, rejected the plaintiffs’…
Suppress, Suppress, Let’s Suppress This Mess
If you haven’t been following the voter ID fight in Pennsylvania, let me fill you in: it’s stupid. Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law is being litigated in court as we speak, but Pennsylvania never investigated whether voter fraud (the central rationale for ID laws) actually exists, so the state simply…
Voter ID law could bar 43 percent of Philly voters
Under Pennsylvania’s harsh new voter ID law, as many as 20 percent of voters in the state lack the photo IDs required to cast a vote, an estimated 1,636,168. In Philadelphia alone, however, 437,237 people, a whopping 43 percent of the voting population, may be ineligible to vote under the…
Scranton, Pennsylvania cuts cops pay by 70 percent
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Public workers in the hard-up US city of Scranton, Pennsylvania have had their pay slashed to minimum wage-levels as a budget fight between the mayor and city council comes to a head. About 400 municipal workers in the city — including police officers, firefighters and construction workers…
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