One person is dead and two are injured after a triple shooting in the parking lot of a Target store in the city's Wynnefield Heights section. It happened around 9 p.m. on the 4000 block of Monument Road at City Avenue. One man inside an SUV was shot in the face. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other men were shot in another SUV. A 31-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds...

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Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced on Tuesday morning, 1/21, that they have solved a 15-year-old cold case disappearance and murder. 36-year-old Daman Smoot confessed to the murder of 26-year-old Adam Brundage of Quakertown. He was arraigned on Tuesday morning and has waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Bail was set at $1 million. Brundage, a father of two, was...

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Charges have been filed against a woman in connection with the discovery of a missing teen's body inside a plastic bin in a South Philadelphia basement last week. The Philadelphia District Attorney's office announced that Maddison Leidy is charged with abuse of corpse, tampering with evidence, and false identification to law enforcement officer. The body of 18-year-old Erin Schweikert was...

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Today marks the 25th Annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. It is the largest collective day of service in the country with over 150,000 volunteers participating in events and activities throughout the region on over 1,800 projects. Girard College, in the Fairmount neighborhood, is the center of it all with over 5,000 participants and 150 different activities in that...

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A SEPTA bus stopped short of going over a wall and into a creek after it had already left the highway in Montgomery County on Sunday, 1/19. It happened on the off ramp from the Schuykill Expressway (I-76) at Gulph Mills. The bus went off the road way and down an embankment. Luckily, it came to a rest before the top of a retaining wall. That would have led to a high drop into a creek. The...

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Three young people were shot and critically injured in the Belmont section of Philadelphia on Saturday evening, 1/18. It happened just before 8 p.m. on the 800 block of North 41st Street. A 24-year-old man was shot twice in the head and once in the chest. A 19-year-old man was shot once in the back. A 17-year-old boy was shot once in the chest and once in the thigh. All three were taken to...

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Philadelphia Police have released a photo of 17-year-old Xavier Johnson who is accused of killing his foster mother and another man in separate incidents. Johnson is charged with (2) Counts of Murder, (2) Counts of Robbery, (2) Counts of Possessing Instruments of Crime, (2) Counts of Tamper With Evidence, (2) Counts of Obstruction of Justice, Abuse Corpse, Theft-Receiving Stolen Property....

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Philadelphia Police have identified the body of a women found in the basement of a South Philly home on Thursday evening, 1/16. It happened on the 2100 block of Porter Street in South Philly. The sheriff's department went to the residence to serve a robbery warrant on a female. The Special Victim's Unit also was on the scene investigating a case of human trafficking. The decomposing body...

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Philadelphia authorities are investigating after the body of a woman was found in the basement of a South Philadelphia home on Thursday evening, 1/16. It happened around 5:10 p.m. on the 2100 block of Porter Street. The sheriff’s department went to the home to serve a robbery warrant to a female at the property. Officers from the Special Victims Unit were also there to investigate a...

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A 17-year-old has been charged in the deaths of his foster mother and a man who had recently been reported missing. Xavier Johnson is charged with the stabbing death of 64-year-old Renee Gilyard and 20-year-old Jimmy Mao, in separate incidents. Gilyard was found in her bathtub on the 300 block of Mechanic Street in Germantown early Wednesday morning, 1/15. Johnson has only been in her...

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