A strong odor in Center City caused many people to evacuate their buildings on Monday morning, 3/2. The Philadelphia Fire Department cannot confirm initial reports that the odor came from the refinery. The cause of the odor remains undetermined. City officials had said that the odor was released during the cleaning of a tank at the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions site in South...

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iradiophilly launches a special Saint Patrick's Day Music Radio Station; Listen to the perfect Saint Patrick's Day Irish/Celtic playlist in Philly for the whole Month of March!

Listen to iradiophilly's St. Patrick's Day Radio for Irish jigs, reels, classics, and more.

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A man is in custody after stealing an ambulance and leading authorities on a wild chase through Northeast Philadelphia on Friday night, 2/28. It started as a call to a domestic disturbance around 9:20 p.m. at the Roosevelt Inn on the 7600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard. A man with just boxers on starting being combative with medics and jumped into the cab of the ambulance. He then drive it...

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A 12-year-old boy Wilmington boy was arrested after he stole a Chinese food delivery driver's vehicle and fled from police on Thursday, 2/27. He is charged with one count of felony vehicle theft, one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest, one count of reckless driving, and one count of leaving the scene of a property damage accident. It happened at the Paladin Club Apartments in...

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Plans to open a safe injection site in South Philadelphia have been shelved after the building owner, Constitution Health Plaza, canceled the lease. "We have made the decision to cancel plans to locate a supervised injection site at Constitution Health Plaza," the facility said in a statement to tenants, partners, and friends. "We believe in the good intentions of all involved - on both...

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Margate's Lucy the Elephant will be available to rent on Airbnb for three nights only this March 17, 18, and 19. The one-night stays will become available on March 5th at noon and cost $138. The 138-year-old wooden elephant has stood at the edge of the Jersey Shore since the Victorian Era entertaining special guests and tourists for generations. Lucky bookers will sleep in the grand bed in...

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Shortly after a federal judge issued a final order on Tuesday, 2/25, ruling that a safe injection site does not violate federal law, the non-profit Safehouse said that it would be opening the first supervised injection site in the country in South Philadelphia as soon as next week. It will be located inside the Constitution Health Plaza, near Broad and McKean Streets. Safehouse attempted...

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Police in Collingswood, NJ, have released surveillance footage of a person of interest related to two daytime burglaries this past weekend. The first burglary happened on the 400 block of Virginia Avenue around 11 a.m. The victim arrived home to find the man inside. The man told the victim to get on the floor and he then fled. He was caught on surveillance wearing a black sweatshirt with a...

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Philadelphia Police have arrested a man in the fatal shooting of a pregnant woman and death of her unborn child in North Philadelphia last week. 21-year-old Razique Bumpas of the 4000 block of Maywood Street was arrested on Monday, 2/24, and is charged with the murder of both 39-year-old Ishan Charmidah Rahman and her unborn baby boy. The shooting happened on Friday, 2/21, just before 6...

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Fifteen years ago today, on February 24, 2005, Philadelphia's alternative radio station Y100 (WPLY FM) 100.3 FM was taken off the air by its owner Radio One. On that same day, Y100 program director Jim McGuinn and promotions director Josh T. Landow launched the website Y100Rocks.com as a petition to bring the station back to the airwaves and as an online streaming radio station. ...

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