The City of Philadelphia announced on Monday, April 11, that it will be moving back to Level 2: Mask Precautions in the COVID-19 response system due to rising case counts. It will go into effect on Monday, April 18, to give businesses a one-week educational period. Level 2 is when average new cases per day are between 100 and 225. It only requires individuals to wear a mask when indoors in...

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A Philadelphia man is wanted for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend as she was pumping gas at a gas station in King of Prussia on Friday night, 4/8. The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office has issued an arrest warrant with charges of first-degree murder, person not to possess a firearm, and other related offenses. 38-year-old Rafiq Thompson is accused of killing 31-year-old...

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Philadelphia Police are asking the public's help in identifying three suspects wanted in the shooting of a 15-year-old in an attempted carjacking last month in the Wissinoming neighborhood. It happened in the evening of March 24 on the 6200 block of Mulberry Street. 15-year-old Sean Toomey was shot and killed outside of his home. He had gone to retrieve a case of water from the car parked...

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Philadelphia Police say that a teen gunman, who shot a SEPTA police officer and three others in the Frankford neighborhood this past week, died from police gunfire and not a self-inflicted gunshot as earlier reported. 18-year-old Zyhiem Hartman was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head inside a unit of the Renehan House Apartments on the 4700 block of Leiper Street. Investigators...

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Philadelphia Police are searching for three suspects wanted in a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia last month. It happened around 7 a.m. on March 18 on the 2500 block of South Shields Street near Elmwood Avenue. The incident was captured on doorbell camera. The male suspects were seen running southbound on the block firing at a fourth individual. 61 shots were fired in total. The suspects...

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Philadelphia Police have identified the teenager who was shot and killed in an ambush while walking near school on Monday afternoon in North Philadelphia. It happened just before 2:45 p.m. on the 2200 block of North 15th Street. 15-year-old Juan Carlos Robles-Corona, an eighth grader at Dr. Tanner G. Duckrey Public School, was walking back to school when the shooters jumped out and opened...

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Pennsylvania State Police have announced the arrest of a man wanted for two separate road rage shootings along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bucks County in March. 29-year-old Andre Kenny Mark Green of Fort Washington was taken into custody at his workplace in Fairless Hills on Friday, 4/2. He is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment, reckless endangerment, and...

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The 64th annual Grammy Awards were held on Sunday night, 4/3, in Las Vegas. Philadelphia artists were well represented and came home winners. Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson, drummer for The Roots, won Best Music Film for Summer of Soul. He took home an Oscar for Best Documentary for the same film last Sunday. It was about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Jazmine Sullivan won two Grammys. She...

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A 3-alarm fire in Trenton left two dead and 4 injured on Saturday night, 4/2. It happened just before 7 p.m. on the 800 block of Carteret Street. The fire may have been caused by a candle. 20-year twin brothers were killed in the fire. They were trapped on the third floor of the home. Four firefighters were also injured. One sustained burns and three others were hurt after a collapse...

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A New Jersey man who conspired with his then girlfriend and a homeless veteran to create a false feel good story, and turned that into a $400,000 GoFundMe scam was sentenced on Friday, 4/1, on federal charges. Mark D'Amico will serve 27 months in prison followed by three years of probation. He must also pay restituion and undergo gambling, drug and mental health counseling. He pled guilty...

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