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| Manayunk Bridge Trail Now Open; Inquirer and Daily News to Merge; Officer Injured in West Philly |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/30/15 6:17 pm | updated: 10/30/15 6:17 pm |
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The Manayunk Bridge Trail over the Schuylkill River opened today for the first time in almost 30 years. The bridge trail is .6 miles long and open exclusively for bicycles and pedestrians. It connects Lower Merion's Cynwyd Heritage Trail with the Schuylkill River Trail and Main Street in Manayunk. The construction took 4 years and cost $5.76 million. Also known as the Manayunk Viaduct, the bridge was built as a railroad bridge in 1918 and was closed in 1986.
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| Shotguns Used to Deflate Runaway Blimp; Delco Police Honored Saving Overdose Victims w/ Narcan |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/29/15 7:15 pm | updated: 10/29/15 7:15 pm |
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| Pennsylvania State Police used shotguns to deflate the runaway Army surveillance blimp that broke loose from its mooring in Maryland and came to rest in some trees in North-central Pennsylvania. The 243-foot long craft was tethered at Aberdeen Proving Ground and came free early yesterday afternoon. It caused power outages as its tether got caught it power lines along its way. It finally landed in trees in Muncy, PA near Willamsport about 150 miles away from its moor. The main body and... Read More |
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| Lost Army Blimp Causes Power Outages Before Crashing; Philly FOP Boycotts Tarantino |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/28/15 5:43 pm | updated: 10/28/15 5:43 pm |
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| An unmanned Army surveillance blimp broke free from its tether at a military base in Maryland this afternoon and was floating aimlessly north over Pennsylvania this afternoon causing power outages as it's cable dragged over power lines. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) broke free from it's tether in Aberdeen, MD around 12:20pm. NORAD tracked the blimp as it drifted north. Two F-16's were also scrambled from Atlantic City Air National... Read More |
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| Driver Was 5x DUI Limit in Fatal Crash; Body On Strathmere Beach; No Eggs for Minors at Redners |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/27/15 5:44 pm | updated: 10/27/15 5:44 pm |
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| Chester County Police say that the man who flipped his car into a pond earlier this month, killing himself and his brother, had a blood alcohol content nearly five times the legal limit. 52-year-old Thomas McAleer was behind the wheel around 4:30 pm on October 2nd driving on Glenn Avenue in Berwyn. At some point he left the road and flipped into a small pond. Both he and his brother, 54-year-old Michael McAleer, drowned. Toxicology reports say that his blood alcohol level was .398 at... Read More |
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| October 24/25 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/26/15 3:09 pm | updated: 10/26/15 3:09 pm |
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October 24/25 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment
1) "Urge for Going" by Joni Mitchell
2) "Autumn" by Strawbs
3) "Jackdaw" by Audience
4) "Season of the Witch" by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
5) "Eight Miles High" by Byrds
6) "Echoes" by Gene Clark
7) "Echoes" by Pink Floyd (11/16/74, London Wembley Empire Pool)
Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment plays each weekend. 8 am Saturdays on... Read More |
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| Murder-suicide at NJ Nursing Home; West Chester Hit-and-Run Car Found; Christie Kicked off Quiet Car |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/25/15 11:09 pm | updated: 10/25/15 11:09 pm |
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| Authorities in Camden County, New Jersey are investigating a shooting at an assisted living facility that they are calling a murder-suicide. It happened around 5:30 p.m. at the Genesis Healthcare Facility on the 3000 block of Evesham Road in Vorhees. 62-year-old George Bullet III of Lumberton came to visit his mother, 85-year-old Andree Bullet. The two ate dinner in the cafeteria before returning to her room. At some point Bullet went to his car and came back. Employees then heard a... Read More |
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| NJ Escaped Convict Captured in Philly; Phillies to Hire Young GM; 4 Dead in OK Parade Crash |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/24/15 11:50 pm | updated: 10/25/15 12:04 am |
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| Authorities have captured a fugitive convicted on drug charges who escaped from a South Jersey prison early on Saturday morning. 41-year-old Panagioti Souris was arrested without incident around 4 p.m. at 6th and Market in Philadelphia. Officials with the New Jersey Department of Corrections noticed that he was missing from his bed at the Ancora facility of Bayside State Prison Saturday around 6 a.m. Souris was serving a maximum sentence of five years for two heroin charges. He was a... Read More |
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| Oldest Polar Bear, Klondike, Dies in Philly; Villanova Students Protest Armed Police |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/23/15 6:18 pm | updated: 10/23/15 6:18 pm |
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| The country's oldest polar bear died on Friday at the Philadelphia Zoo. Klondike was 34-years-old. Zoo officials started noticing a serious decline in her health starting two weeks ago and she had difficulty standing and walking. Despite treatment she was not improving and they decided to euthanize her this morning. Klondike was born at the Bronx Zoo in 1980 and has lived at the Philadelphia Zoo since 1981. She far outlived the average life span of a bear in captivity which is 24. Her... Read More |
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| Man Arrested for Luring Children in Wayne; Gov. Christie Veto Overridden For First Time |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/22/15 6:36 pm | updated: 10/22/15 6:36 pm |
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| Police in Radnor Township have arrested a man accused of trying to lure three students outside an elementary school. It happened around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of West Wayne and Arbordale Avenues near Wayne Elementary School in Delaware County. Police say that 26-year-old Daniel Lee of Wayne approached a boy and his two sisters ages 10, 9, and 8. He asked them about their school and teachers. He then asked them them about the woods and an abandoned house he was about to... Read More |
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| iradiophilly's Halloween Music Radio Station; Listen to the best Halloween playlist in Philadelphia |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/22/15 6:07 pm | updated: 10/22/15 6:07 pm |
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iradiophilly launches Halloween Music Radio Station; Listen to the perfect Halloween playlist in Philly!
Just in time for Halloween parties at home, at work, out on the town, or while the kids are trick-or-treating at your door, iRadioPhilly is launching it's annual Halloween music radio station featuring Philadelphia's favorite Halloween party classics.
This special station will be on-air starting tonight at Midnight (Friday 10/23, 12 a.m.) and then all... Read More |
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Alvin Clay
