Josh Shapiro

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — Pennsylvania lawmakers joined victims of priest sexual abuse at a roundtable discussion on Tuesday. The aim was to urge the legislature to adopt four reforms recommended by the grand jury that investigated allegations against priests and church leaders across the...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- Pennsylvania's attorney general says college students heading back to class and those getting ready to go to college are prime targets of scammers. Attorney General Josh Shapiro says his office gets complaints at this time of year from victims of scammers who have...

TRENTON, N.J. (KYW Newsradio) — In response to the scathing allegations in Pennsylvania's grand jury report on Catholic priest abuse, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal is forming a task force to investigate similar instances of sexual abuse and cover-ups. Grewal said the task force will be...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York and New Jersey launched new investigations into the Roman Catholic Church's handling of clergy sex abuse allegations Thursday as the number of similar inquiries around the country continues to grow. In New York, the state's attorney general issued subpoenas to all eight...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia unions celebrated Labor Day in their traditional fashion: gathering at the Sheet Metal Workers hall on Columbus Avenue and marching down Columbus Boulevard to a picnic at Penn's Landing. But the festivities could not conceal the challenges unions are...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — While bishops from around the world were planning to meet in Rome next month to discuss the pastoral care of the Catholic Church for the young, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput is asking the pope to cancel it. When Pope Francis planned the assembly of bishops...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro was a guest on "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday to discuss sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and what he calls cover-ups that go all the way to the Vatican. Since the report's release, Shapiro says only two priests have been...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Two days after the release of a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report outlining decades of clergy sex abuse, the Vatican has issued an official reaction. A statement from the Vatican calls the abuse and the cover-ups outlined in the grand jury report "criminal and...

By Mark Scolforo, Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A landmark grand jury report on clergy abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania detailed how priests often used religious rituals, symbols of the faith and the threat of eternity in hell to groom, molest and rape children...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The partnership between state, city and federal officials has reached a new level, and they believe it reiterates a commitment to stop gun violence in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced ongoing efforts to attack illegal gun sales that...