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HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office said it has concerns that disclosing more pornographic emails exchanged by office employees could be perceived as retaliating against witnesses in the criminal case against her.
Besides the perception of retaliation, Kane's spokesman Chuck Ardo said other concerns surround the disclosure of the names of other people who exchanged the emails. Some of them may be private individuals who are not state employees, and others may be protected by union contracts, Ardo said.
Still, Kane intends to release more details about the scandal, Ardo said Thursday.
Kane has said that releasing the information is crucial to her defense strategy against charges she leaked investigative information subject to secrecy protections and then lied to a grand jury about it. She has said she did nothing wrong.
PITTSBURGH — A judge cut more than $20,000 from the $119,000 verdict a jury awarded a performing arts student who was wrongly arrested by Pittsburgh police.U.S. District Judge David Cercone cut the damages awarded to Jordan Miles because the verdict was less than $180,000 the city offered him to settle the lawsuit. By law, Miles became responsible for the police's legal costs — excluding attorney's fees — from the time he rejected the larger settlement until the verdict was rendered.Miles, who is black, was an 18-year-old performing arts high school student with no criminal record when he said three white officers wrongfully beat and arrested him in January 2010.The jury rejected Miles' excessive force claims but agreed in a March 2014 trial that police didn't have probable cause to arrest him.
MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Bones found at the proposed site of a Shell Chemical refinery in western Pennsylvania are likely from a family graveyard more than 100 years old.Howard Pollman, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, said that two skulls and other remains were found by workers Aug. 6.Shell spokesman Michael Marr says the area where the bones were found has been roped off while investigators trace the origin of the bones. But other work to prepare the site in Potter Township for possible development continues.
