WILLIAMSPORT – Northumberland County and its corrections co-defendants have won partial dismissal of a claims in a complaint alleging that staffing at the county jail was inadequate and ineffective, leading the plaintiff’s daughter to commit suicide when she found herself incarcerated at the facility on drug charges.
Nearly two years after his arrest for his actions on Jan. 6 outside the U.S. Capitol, Samuel Lazar has been released from federal prison to a halfway house in Philadelphia.
Attorneys for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner made the case that the Republican-led effort in the state General Assembly is an attempt to remove a locally elected Democratic official over ideological disagreements and not impeachable conduct.