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| Bill Cosby Hearing, Center City Rail Trail, Bishop Richard Allen Stamp |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 02/02/16 9:01 am | updated: 02/02/16 9:01 am |
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Bill Cosby is scheduled to be in a Montgomery County courtroom today to argue sex assault charges against him should be dropped. Attorneys for the 78-year-old comedian claim the charges are based on a deposition from a civil trial in 2005, which they say is protected by a so-called "non-prosecution agreement" with then-District Attorney Bruce Castor. Bruce Castor said, back in 2005, when he was DA, he made the non-prosecution agreement with Bill Cosby's lawyers because he felt there wasn't enough evidence for criminal charges. Cosby's attorneys say Castor;s agreement prompted Cosby to waive his 5th amendment rights in a civil deposition, and they argue prosecutors are violating that agreement by using statements from the deposition, which was unsealed last year, to file charges against Cosby. But prosecutors say there's no such thing as a non-prosecution agreement, they say, under Pennsylvania law only a court can issue immunity, and there’s no record of that ever happening.
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It’s been years in the planning , and it will be years more to completion, but Philadelphia’s three-mile "Rail Trail" through Center City is close to breaking ground. Only the state budget mess is holding it back. As soon as the budget passes, Michael Garden of the Friends of the Rail Park says, the group can put out Requests for Proposals for phase one, a quarter-mile stretch known as the Reading Viaduct. The group continues private fundraising with a concert on Thursday at Union Transfer featuring the Bacon Brothers. The full vision begins behind the Rodin Museum on the Parkway and goes east, in an existing but unused tunnel. The viaduct begins at Broad and Noble Street, at an abandoned Reading dining car across from the School District building. Garden says the prospective park has already sparked development and new residents, in turn, are already using parts of the trail for recreation, including hanging a giant tire swing from overhead structures that once served the railroad until the route was changed with construction of the Convention Center and Vine Street expressway. Friends of the Rail Park have drawn up ambitious renderings of seating and a playground and mature trees growing on a bridge. In addition to recreation, the Friends envision the park as a major bike thorofare. They are working with the Mural Arts Project and the Horticultural Society and see opportunities for a cafe, performance spaces and pop up watering hole, thus embracing all the elements of Philadelphia’s renaissance. Septa now owns the land that Phase One would occupy. Garden says it will lease it to the Friends during construction, then turn it over to the Parks and Rec Department but the Friends will continue to provide maintenance. The price tag for construction of Phase One is $9.6 million. The cost for the entire project isn’t known. But Garden assures the Friends are in it for the long haul.
Hundreds will pack into the sanctuary of Mother Bethel AME Church today for the unveiling of a U.S. postal stamp to commemorate the church’s founder, an abolitionist born into slavery in Philadelphia. 2016 will mark the 200th anniversary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church founded by Bishop Richard Allen. Born a slave in 1760, Allen purchased his own freedom and rose to prominence as a Methodist preacher. But racism in worship lead him to start his own. “This stamp is significant and it’s long overdue,†says Reverend Mark Tyler, pastor of Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Society Hill. He says 1500 people, including bishops and scholars from around the world, will attend today’s unveiling of the U.S. stamp featuring Allen. Jackie Dupont-Walker lead the lobbying effort to obtain a stamp. She says it began in 2004 and took great efforts, including gathering more than 40,000 signatures. The event kicks off at noon at Mother Bethel AME Church.
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