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| Cobbs Creek House Collapse; Ship Bottom Fire; Police Dog Scared by Fireworks, Killed by Car |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/07/14 6:56 pm | updated: 07/07/14 9:54 pm |
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| Several houses in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek neighborhood have collapsed today. It happened just before 12 noon near 60th and Spruce Streets. The roofs of two homes collapsed, crushing the second floors and weighing down on the first buckling the porches out over the front steps. Neighboring homes also sustained damage. No one was inside any of the homes at the time, and there are no reported injuries. There was a search for one neighbor's champion Scottish deerhound show dogs. They... Read More |
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| 4th of July in Philadelphia; Body Found in Ocean City; Freezer Son Turns Self In |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/03/14 6:06 pm | updated: 07/03/14 6:14 pm |
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| Philadelphia is the place to be for 4th of July. We are the birthplace of the nation, and we certainly know how to celebrate. Head to the Old City, 5th and Market, from 10-2 for readings of the Declaration, Parade, and tapping of the Liberty Bell. The Party on the Parkway runs all afternoon from Noon to 7pm with activities, music, games, and food. That all culminates with “Largest Free Concert in America” of course that's the Philly 4th of July Jam & Fireworks at the Art Museum.... Read More |
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| Styx Foreigner Tour Bus Fire; Drug User Cigarette Started Motel Fire; Son/Grandson Kill Grandfather |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/02/14 7:11 pm | updated: 07/02/14 7:11 pm |
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| The tour buses of two popular classic rock bands were damaged in a fire this afternoon at a parking facility in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. The fire broke out at a bus parking lot at 2nd and Callowhill St. around 12:20pm Wednesday afternoon. The bus belonging to rock band Styx caught fire and the rear was engulfed in flames. It spread to the adjacent bus belonging to the band Foreigner. The two bands are in town and scheduled to play at the Let Freedom Rock Fest on... Read More |
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| Grandmother Found in Freezer; Food Truck Explosion (video); 5 Kids Left Alone in SUV |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/01/14 6:49 pm | updated: 07/01/14 6:49 pm |
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| Police investigators discovered the naked body of an 83-year-old grandmother inside of a basement freezer this morning in the city's Feltonville neighborhood. Police were tipped of by an in-law that the woman, identified as Andrea Carrasquillo, had passed away in January and was placed in the freezer by a relative when they got scared. Neighbors on the 4500 block of Lee Street did not find it odd that they did not see her because she did not leave very often. The medical examiner will... Read More |
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| Coast Guard Calls Off Search in OC; Tossed Cigarette Lights Up Car; Rita's Gate Investigation |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/30/14 6:27 pm | updated: 06/30/14 6:27 pm |
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| The US Coast Guard has suspended it's search for a 14-year-old boy who went missing while swimming in the water off Ocean City, NJ. They called off the search at 4:30 Monday afternoon. They had been searching a 50 square mile area. Ocean City Fire and Beach Patrol will continue their search on Tuesday morning. The Philadelphia teen had been with a group of friends on a jetty near 9th street when he was swept out into the water by a rip current. Attempts to rescue him only caught others... Read More |
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| Girl Killed by Gate at Rita's Water Ice; Road Rage Victim ID'd; Donate Produce to Philabundance |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/29/14 1:22 am | updated: 06/29/14 1:22 am |
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| A 3-year-old girl was killed Saturday afternoon in a freak accident when a security gate fell on her outside the Rita's Water Ice in the the city's Brewerytown neighborhood. It happened around 4:30 pm at 2829 West Girard Avenue. The large gate detached from the wall, crashed to the sidewalk making a loud boom, and landed directly on the girl. The Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority were holding their annual fundraiser at the water ice place at the time. It took... Read More |
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| Truck Driver Asleep in Delaware Crash; DUI Checkpoints This Weekend; No Bail for Building Collapse |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/27/14 5:43 pm | updated: 06/27/14 5:43 pm |
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| Delaware State Police say that the driver of a UPS tractor-trailer that flipped onto it's side, blocking traffic for hours on I-95 in Delaware Friday morning, had fallen asleep at the wheel. It happened at 4:08 a.m. in the southbound lanes north of Basin Road exit (Exit 5B) as the 16-wheel truck was merging from I-295 to I-95. The truck drifted off the road, hit the guard rail, flipped onto it's side and slid to a stop blocking all lanes of the highway. A 2010 Mercedes was unable to... Read More |
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| McDonald's Attack Mother and Son; Miss Delaware Too Old; Neighbor Charged in Hoarder Stabbings |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/26/14 6:40 pm | updated: 06/26/14 6:40 pm |
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| Witnesses recorded and posted video of a violent attack against a mother by a McDonald's employee in Salem City, NJ on Tuesday. The video shows the mother on the ground receiving multiple punches to the face and chest. Her 2-year-old son was standing next to her, kicking the assailant in an attempt to get her to stop. Several people were standing around watching and did nothing to intervene. The suspect, wearing a red uniform, was identified as 25-year-old Latia Harris. She believed the... Read More |
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| Woman Robbed in Northeast (video); Frank Sinatra's License on Auction; Upper Darby Bedroom Stalker |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/25/14 6:10 pm | updated: 06/25/14 6:10 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police are hunting for a man who attacked and robbed a woman and her friend outside her Northeast Philadelphia apartment complex. It happened on Sunday, June 15th at around 10 pm on the 6000 block of Roosevelt Boulevard in the Oxford Circle neighborhood. Surveillance shows the suspect following the victim, a 45-year-old woman, up to the entry way of her apartment building, grabbing her and threatening to shoot her. (see video below) He took her jewelry and made her call a... Read More |
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| Rittenhouse Rapist Arrested; IronPigs Michael Jackson Night; Barwin MTWB Concert Raises $170k |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/24/14 7:12 pm | updated: 06/24/14 7:13 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police have identified and arrested the suspect from last weekend's rape and robbery of a 26-year-old doctor near Rittenhouse Square. 28-year-old Milton Mateo Garcia from Honduras was arrested monday night at his work. He has been charged with rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping and related offenses. The incident happened early Saturday morning on the 1900 block of Spruce street. The woman was walking home alone after leaving Ladder 15 tavern when surveillance shows the... Read More |
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Alvin Clay
