President Biden delivered a flurry of attacks on former President Donald J. Trump during a Tuesday speech in Pennsylvania about taxes and economic policy, painting his Republican rival as a puppet of plutocrats who had ignored the working class. Visiting his hometown, Scranton, in a top battleground state that he has visited more often than…
A former Pennsylvania nurse who had been accused of killing two patients with doses of insulin faces more murder charges and has confessed to trying to kill 19 additional people at several locations, the authorities said Thursday. In May, Heather Pressdee, 41, admitted to the authorities that she had intended to kill three patients in…
Since the Hamas attack in Israel, prominent Jewish alumni have increased pressure on university officials to speak out on the war. Tempers have been particularly high at the University of Pennsylvania, where the campus was already up in arms over a recent Palestinian literary conference. This week, influential alumni, angry over the university’s response to…
Danelo Cavalcante, the Pennsylvania prison escapee, has now been roaming wooded areas and small suburban towns for nearly two weeks, presumably with no shelter and little to eat or drink, as he flees the hundreds of police officers desperately searching for him. Back home in rural Brazil, his mother, Iracema Cavalcante, sees a son whose…
The fugitive who escaped Chester County Prison and has eluded authorities for a week and a half was seen on Saturday night near a town about 25 miles from the area where hundreds of law enforcement officers had been searching for him for days, the Pennsylvania State Police said. The state police released photos early…
The manhunt for an escaped fugitive in the Philadelphia suburbs appeared to escalate on Friday afternoon as attention focused on the area around a sprawling botanical garden where the escapee had been seen twice in recent days. The number of officers searching for Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from the Chester County Prison on Aug. 31,…
In a news conference on Wednesday, Howard Holland, the acting warden of the prison, described for the first time how Mr. Cavalcante escaped. A little before 9 a.m., while a basketball game was going on outside in the exercise yard, he said, Mr. Cavalcante crab-walked up two parallel walls — putting his hands on one…
Law enforcement agencies were searching late Thursday for a Brazilian man who escaped from a prison near Philadelphia days after he was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend, the authorities said. The inmate, Danelo Cavalcante, escaped from the Chester County Prison on Thursday morning, the local district attorney’s…
Two people have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of two boys and a teenager in Lebanon, Pa., on Tuesday night, the authorities said on Thursday. The boys, who were 8 and 9, were outside playing with their kitten when the shooting occurred, Pier Hess Graf, the Lebanon County, Pa., district attorney, said…
For a month, the Pennsylvania legislature has been frozen by a handful of vacancies in the State House of Representatives that made the difference between Democratic and Republican control, and by representatives’ inability to agree on basic operating rules. Special elections on Tuesday could bring the General Assembly back to life. Those elections will fill…