Sin or Crime? Inquiry Targets Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Handling of Child Sex Abuse April 21, 2023 By Mark Scolforo and Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of child sexual abuse...
Pennsylvania Nears Vote on Opening Window to Child-Abuse Lawsuits February 24, 2023 By Mark Scolforo Pennsylvania House Democrats put their freshly minted majority status to work this week in shutting down Republican efforts to make...
Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf Seeks Child Sex Abuse Claim Window January 10, 2023 By Mark Scolforo ]Pennsylvania’s new state House speaker declared Friday that no other legislation will pass his chamber until it approves a constitutional...
Pennsylvania Loosens Rules on Where Medical Malpractice Cases Can Be Filed August 29, 2022 By Mark Scolforo Pennsylvania’s highest court lastThursday reversed its own two-decade-old rule that required medical malpractice cases to be filed in the county...
Firefighter’s 10 Relatives, Including 3 Children, Among Victims in Fire He Battled August 8, 2022 By Michael Rubinkam and Mark Scolforo Fire tore quickly through a house in northeastern Pennsylvania early Friday, killing seven adults and three children and horrifying a...
Video Gives More Detail on Collapse of Pittsburgh Bridge May 10, 2022 By Mark Scolforo Video footage from a bus of the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh this year shows one end of the structure had...
Suit Claims Trucker in Pennsylvania Crash Wore Noise-Canceling Headphones October 28, 2021 By Mark Scolforo Victims of a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed five people and hurt nearly all the dozens of passengers...
Death Toll Rises After Ida’s Remnants Hit Northeast September 3, 2021 By Mark Scolforo and David Porter The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over New York City, with at least nine deaths linked to flooding...
Pennsylvania Roadwork Firm to Pay $20M in Workers’ Retirement Theft Case August 9, 2021 By Mark Scolforo A major Pennsylvania heavy equipment contractor entered no contest pleas to four theft counts and agreed to pay restitution of...
Pennsylvania Governor Wolf Signs Off on Revisions to State’s Medical Pot Law July 2, 2021 By Mark Scolforo Medical marijuana patients can continue to get a three month’s supply at a time, rather than one month’s, under revisions...