New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced on Thursday, April 14, that legal recreational marijuana sales will start next week. Starting April 21, people aged 21 and over can purchase cannabis and cannabis products from specific licensed retailers. Earlier this week, seven existing medical marijuana dispensaries were approved to sell recreational pot at thirteen locations. Those...

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The suspect wanted in the Brooklyn subway mass shooting attack has been arrested in Manhattan's East Village on Wednesday, 4/13. 62-year-old Frank Robert James was initially deemed a person-of-interest, but NYPD named him a suspect on Wednesday morning. He is charged with one federal count of terrorism on a mass transportation system. Police acted on a tip iin order to find and arrest...

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Authorities in Delaware are searching for a man in connection to the stabbing death of a man outside of a motel in New Castle County on Sunday afternoon. An arrest warrant has been issued for 52-year-old Frank Deshields for first-degree murder and weapons charges. It happened around 2:45 p.m. Sunday, 4/10, at the Superlodge at 1213 West Avenue in New Castle. Police found a 45-year-old man...

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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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