July 27, 2011 By Phil Ray (pray@altoonamirror.com) The Altoona Mirror JOHNSTOWN – The suicide of a Blair County Prison inmate was “predictable” and “preventable,” an attorney for the man’s family told a federal jury Tuesday. Jeremy...
July 05, 2011 1:51 PM by Adam Smeltz State College Area School District officials have formally agreed to end the district’s ban on same-gender domestic-partner benefits, according to a legal agreement signed and filed Tuesday. The agreement marks a partial...
June 28, 2011 4:16 AM by Adam Smeltz Anti-bias policy proposals introduced Monday night by State College Superintendent Michael Hardy may fulfill some key equal-treatment demands in a recent federal complaint. Hardy, the school district’s acting top...
June 24, 2011 By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL BARBARO ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum...
June 18, 2011 By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — Driving across the flatlands of Illinois with Barack Obama during the Senate race of 2004, Kevin Thompson sometimes found himself tutoring the candidate on gay rights. Mr. Thompson, then a traveling aide, recalls long...
Tue Jun 14, 2011 Reuters By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court here has ruled in favor of two school students who were disciplined in different districts for creating what lawyers called parodies of their principals on the MySpace social network...
