A recent lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania doctor is seeking to guarantee gun ownership rights for medical cannabis patients. Under current federal law, people who use cannabis and other illegal drugs are banned from purchasing firearms. Although cannabis remains a scheduled I substance at the…
People in Philadelphia will recognize the name and the charges, but how the FBI handled the investigation will add a new twist to an old mafia story. As Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino begins his federal racketeering and conspiracy trial in a Manhattan courtroom this week,…
When you are accused of committing a crime, you might assume you will be charged with breaking a state law. You will then face a state prosecutor in state court. This assumption might be right, since some crimes are purely state matters. However, federal courts…
We’ve come a long way in preventing odometer fraud since the days when it was as easy as spinning the dials back manually, yet despite this, odometer tampering is still frightfully common. In fact, more than 450,000 vehicles are sold each year with false odometer…
If you are like most people in Pennsylvania, you’ve probably been watching with horror at the developments that have come out about the Steelton Water Treatment Plant over the past year. No one wants to think about dangers in the water, even if you are…