The grand jury findings also represent a withering rejection of the unjustifiable behavior of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who shut down the three-year investigation that caught state Democratic legislators on video and audio tapes taking bribes. Williams stepped in and successfully prosecuted the case.

As the grand jury reported, it had 26 recordings featuring Rep. Ronald G. Waters, who accepted nine cash payments from a confidential informant totaling $8,750. The grand jury had 24 recordings of Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown accepting five cash payments totaling $4,000.

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More than 70,000 children end up in emergency departments each year after getting their hands on medicines left within reach. That\’s 165 kids — or roughly four busloads of kids — per day. Far too often, that medicine belonged to a grandparent.

U.S. forces captured Latif Mehsud, the former number two commander in Pakistan’s faction of the Taliban, in October 2013, in an operation that angered then Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

GLOUCESTER – Bill Keane, founder and coach of the South Jersey Shamrocks Lacrosse Club, has been appointed varsity boys’ lacrosse coach for Gloucester Catholic, Athletic Director Pat Murphy has announced.

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that the former treasurer of the Seaville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company, whose dismissed chief was accused in September of stealing funds from it, pleaded guilty today to charges that he stole approximately $19,000 by using fire company funds to reimburse himself for personal expenses.Michael Petrella, 26, of Seaville, pleaded guilty before Cape May County Superior Court Judge John Porto to one count of third-degree misapplication of entrusted property. As part of the plea agreement, the Division of Criminal Justice recommended 364 days of jail custody. Petrella will pay restitution in the amount of $19,308.18 to the fire company, and he also will be permanently barred from holding public employment. Sentencing for Petrella is scheduled for February 27, 2015.