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Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Intelligencer
Police: Woman
found in motel
was murdered
ruled a homicide, Bensalem police said in a press
release. The newspaper was
Bensalem police have
unsuccessful in reaching
confirmed a 32-year-old
Coroner Dr. Joseph CampMorrisville woman found
dead in a motel room Tues- bell for details.
Bensalem and Bucks
day was murdered, but
they have released no other County Detectives are
details about how she died. continuing their efforts to
identify a suspect.
The body of Kristin
Police initially identiMcNally was discovered by
fied
McNally as Kristin
a motel employee in Room
Neal
186 of the Knights Inn in
If you have any inforthe 2700 block of Lincoln
mation relating to this
Highway shortly after
investigation you can con11 a.m. Tuesday.
tact Bensalem Police at
The Bucks County Cor- 215-633-3719.
oner’s Office performed an
Jo Ciavaglia: 215-949-4181; email:
autopsy Wednesday morn- jciavaglia@calkins.com; Twitter: @
ing and the death has been jociavaglia
By Jo Ciavaglia
Staff writer
Frank Warner / associated press
Firefighters spray water on the The Buckeye Tavern in Lower Macungie, Lehigh County, on Tuesday night.
Fire guts historic tavern built in 1735
MACUNGIE, Lehigh County (AP)
— A Pennsylvania tavern housed in a
building erected nearly 300 years ago
has burned, but nobody inside was
hurt.
The fire started at the Buckeye
Tavern in Lower Macungie Township
about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Employees and patrons left the bar
as word of the fire spread. It was under
control in about 90 minutes, but much
of the structure was gone.
The tavern’s original stone walls,
most recently restored in 2000,
were still standing, but it wasn’t
immediately clear if they might also be
lost due to the other damage.
The building housing the tavern
was built in 1735. The Buckeye Tavern
website says the building has housed a
neighborhood eatery since 1768.
The current owners bought it in
1987.
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— The David Library of the
American Revolution will
conclude its spring lecture
series at 7:30 p.m. June 2
with “The Pursuit of Happiness: On John Adams and
Egalitarianism in the Declaration of Independence.”
The lecture will be given
by Danielle Allen, author of
“Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of
Independence in Defense
of Equality” and several
other books. Allen will delve
deeply into the Declaration and what it means and
particularly the role of John
Adams, who Allen believes
played a much more significant role in the document’s
development than is conventionally recognized.
Admission is free, but
reservations are required
and can be made by calling
215-493-6776, ext. 100 or
emailing rsvp@dlar.org.
The library is at 1201
River Road.
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students’ notes
ORANGE, N.J. (AP) —
A New Jersey school district
has fired a teacher whose
third-grade class wrote getwell letters to a sick prison
inmate convicted of killing
a Philadelphia police officer.
Orange School Superintendent Ronald Lee tells
NJ.com the board of education made its decision Tuesday night after hearing from
Marilyn Zuniga and several
of her supporters.
Zuniga was suspended
last month after telling
the board she had made a
mistake.
The students’ letters
were delivered to Mumia
Abu-Jamal in prison following his hospitalization
for what his family said was
treatment for complications
from diabetes. The former
Black Panther is serving a
life sentence for the 1981
killing.
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Lecture set on Declaration of Independence
seconds apart. The incident
began when she attempted
to stop him for expired
inspection and emissions
stickers and he sped away,
police have said.
Mearkle was suspended
without pay after her arrest
and remains on electronic
monitoring while out on
bail. Her formal arraignment is scheduled for June
11.
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There is a significant
public interest in the video,
attorney Joshua Bonn told
the judge. Bonn, who represents PA Media Group,
publisher of Pennlive.com
in Harrisburg, said there
has been a national discussion about police conduct
after police shootings in
Ferguson, Missouri and in
Baltimore.
Curcillo said prosecutors
could show the video at trial,
noting “there is no denial of
public access.”
Police said Mearkle, 36,
shocked Kassick four times
with the camera-equipped
stun gun, and then shot
him twice in the back, four
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Associated Press‌
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she seemed to suggest she
was not going to release it,
HARRISBURG — A
which is our position,” Perry
video that shows a Pennsyl- said afterward.
vania police officer fatally
The video taken by
shooting an unarmed man
Mearkle’s stun gun shows
earlier this year remained
her shooting 59-year-old
out of public view WednesDavid Kassick in the back
day as a county judge
as he lay facedown following
considered whether to let
a vehicle chase in February.
prosecutors release it before She is charged with criminal
trial.
homicide, but Perry has said
Dauphin County Judge
she acted in self-defense.
Deborah Curcillo after a
Prosecutor Johnny Baer
brief hearing did not say
said the Dauphin County
when she would rule, but
district attorney’s office took
her statements from the
steps to release it after getting
bench were encouraging
several requests from news
for Brian Perry, defense
organizations. His office
attorney for Hummelstown
determined there was nothPolice Officer Lisa Mearkle. ing to prevent them from
“Just from her comments, making it public, he said.
By MARK SCOLFORO
N
Judge weighs releasing fatal police shooting video