William Bender

2 days ago | inquirer.com | William Bender |Vinny Vella

When Kevin Krebs was arrested this month for bringing guns and ammunition to a “No Kings” rally in West Chester — then re-arrested two days later after police found a stockpile of homemade bombs at his house — the hot takes ran the political gamut. “Pennsylvania police stopped one of these crazies from harming ‘No Kings’ protesters,” read the headline of an Esquire blog post that compared Krebs to the Jan.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | William Bender

A software vendor used by school boards across the country has acknowledged that it experienced a national data breach that may have left more than 60,000 private school district documents accessible to the public for an unknown period of time. The disclosure by Diligent Corporation, which develops and markets the school board software BoardDocs, confirms that the leak of confidential records in the Lower Merion School District, reported last month in The Inquirer, was not an isolated incident.

2 weeks ago | firerescue1.com | William Bender

By William BenderThe Philadelphia InquirerPHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Fire Marshal’s Office has ruled that a four-alarm fire that gutted a vacant West Philadelphia apartment building over the weekend was deliberately set, and the police department’s Southwest Detectives Division has opened an arson investigation.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | William Bender |Ryan Briggs

The Philadelphia Fire Marshal’s Office has ruled that a four-alarm fire that gutted a vacant West Philadelphia apartment building over the weekend was deliberately set, and the police department’s Southwest Detectives Division has opened an arson investigation. The blaze broke out around 5 a.m. Saturday at the Admiral Court apartment complex, a four-story eyesore at 48th and Locust Streets that had been neglected for several years by notorious landlord Phil Pulley.

4 weeks ago | inquirer.com | William Bender

A once-prominent Philadelphia lawyer who represented victims in high-profile sexual abuse cases has been suspended for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a client who was allegedly sexually abused while in the Church of Scientology. Brian Kent, a former sex crimes prosecutor in Montgomery County and cofounder of the since-renamed Center City law firm Laffey, Bucci & Kent, has agreed to a three-year suspension, according to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.