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On Tuesday, Philadelphians turned out in droves to participate in the highly anticipated midterm election. The state’s highly competitive U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races drew much...

The brother of two girls killed in a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a a Black Liberation group has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, saying his sisters’ remains were mishandled and hidden away for decades causing the family extreme distress.

The brother of two girls killed in a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of the Black Liberation group MOVE, has filed a lawsuit against the city of...

The brother of two girls killed in a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a Black Liberation group has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, saying his sisters' remains were mishandled and hidden away for decades causing the family extreme distress.

Lionell Dotson, the brother of two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, has filed a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The brother of two girls killed in a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a a Black Liberation group has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, saying his sisters' remains were mishandled and hidden away for decades causing the family extreme distress.

Dr. Constance DiAngelo was selected by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to lead the Medical Examiner's Office, a role that presents many challenges amid a troubling homicide rate and recent controversy surrounding a decades-old scandal. 

Katricia Dotson’s remains were studied, disputed, displayed and litigated. Lost in the controversy was the life of an American girl and her family.

PHILADELPHIA – Along with a series of publications which want to dismiss defamation litigation from a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, who claimed their allegedly defamatory reports of her supposed mishandling of the remains of victims from the MOVE Bombing of 1985 damaged her professional reputation and caused her to suffer harassment and death threats, the University is looking to do likewise.

PHILADELPHIA – A University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has sued a host of media outlets, reporters, the Association of Black Anthropologists and the Society of Black Archaeologists over their alleged defamatory reports of her supposed mishandling of the remains of a victim from the MOVE Bombing of 1985, with some of those entities now looking to dismiss her case.