Former Maryland AG to lead porn email investigation
Kathleen Kane taps Doug Gansler to head an independent probe into pornographic and objectionable emails among judges prosecutors and others in Maryland. The team will use subpoena and grand jury powers and may pursue crimes. The effort aims to reveal and address tolerated misconduct across state offices.
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Trees for Troops Week Supports Deployed Families
Trees from a 70 acre farm and other local sellers are donated via a FedEx trailer for the holiday campaign. Short and other workers load white pines firs and blue spruces headed to Fort Polk Louisiana. Shorts says the goal is to ease holidays for families with deployed or away service members.
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FBI background checks peak on Black Friday amid Colorado Planned Parenthood attack
FBI data shows 185,345 background checks processed on Black Friday, a national record, while three people died and nine were wounded in an attack at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado. The record follows prior spikes after Sandy Hook and the Connecticut school shooting. Obama urged stricter gun limits. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is charged for killings and is to be formally charged later this month.
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Pennsylvania tax revenue rises modestly in November
Harrisburg AP reports that Pennsylvania collected 1.8 billion in state taxes in November, up from 1.7 billion a year earlier. The 6 percent state sales tax yielded 761 million, higher than 749 million, while personal income tax rose to 765 million from 702 million.
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