Maryclaire Dale

November 25, 2013 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA — A contractor who oversaw a botched building demolition that killed six people in a Salvation Army thrift store in Philadelphia was charged with murder, manslaughter and reckless endangerment on Monday.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

3 minute read

April 04, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - An intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and selling most of them on eBay.Prosecutors said Denning McTague, 40, got about $30,000 from selling about 150 of the documents online.

By Maryclaire Dale

2 minute read

April 22, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A defense lawyer has fallen ill, causing a delay in the murder trial of Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

1 minute read

August 29, 2013 | Law.com

The NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to resolve concussion-related lawsuits with a $765 million settlement that would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research, a federal judge said Thursday.

By Maryclaire Dale

4 minute read

May 29, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Tom Christmas and his wife argue they didn't discover the 84-plus alligators on land next to their homestead until four years after they bought the property in southwest Mississippi.

By MaryClaire Dale

2 minute read

February 01, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - Court rulings prohibit routine strip searches of minor offenders, but a privately run prison conducts them on all new inmates, a lawsuit charged.The potential class-action suit, filed in federal court this week against The Geo Group, involves a drunk-driving suspect who was strip-searched at a county prison the firm manages near Philadelphia.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

2 minute read

June 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A philanthropic businessman admitted Wednesday that he lied on bank documents to obtain over $40 million in loans on his jet, Nantucket vacation home and student-loan company.Andrew N. Yao, 45, of Bryn Mawr, pleaded guilty to 10 fraud and money-laundering counts that carry a guideline sentence of about four to five years, prosecutors said.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

3 minute read

April 10, 2007 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - The marketers of Splenda have confused consumers and food makers by unfairly distancing the sugar substitute from the artificial sweetener category, its chief rival told a jury Tuesday.The jury will decide whether McNeil Nutritionals has misled consumers by suggesting in its ads and packaging that Splenda is a natural product and contains sugar.

By Maryclaire Dale

3 minute read

March 18, 2010 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - The Philadelphia-area woman who authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot.Colleen LaRose, 46, of Pennsburg, appeared in court wearing a green jumpsuit and corn rows in her blond hair.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

3 minute read

August 01, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Five young teens charged with raping a 12-year-old girl at a Philadelphia recreation center were released Wednesday on house arrest until their juvenile court trial next month.

By MaryClaire Dale

3 minute read