Firefighters responded to a call of a fire in a trash chute high up in a 19-story residential high rise in West Philadelphia around 9:30 p.m.on Thursday night, 7/18. When they arrived, a man was scaling down the outside of the building, though it is unclear why he chose that way to escape the fire. He did make it down safely. Four residents and three officers were treated for smoke...

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Hahnemann University Hospital has announced a timeline of dates for the closure of departments and facilities with the final date set as September 6th. The schedule has to be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Philadelphia Health Commissioner's Office. The hospital's owners, Philadelphia Academic Health System, announced last month that it would close the...

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32-year-old Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill, aka Robert Rihmeek Williams, appeared before Pennsylvania State Superior Court on Tuesday, 7/16, to petition the appeals court to overturn his 2008 drug and gun conviction under the Post Conviction Relief Act. His attorneys argued before the three-judge panel that his original conviction over 10 years ago should be thrown out because of...

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Surveillance footage from a Roxborough woman's home captured a relentless intruder over the weekend while the family was down the shore and she wants the man identified. It happened on Saturday night, 7/13, at Mitchell Street and Shurs Lane. Andrea Albelda was on vacation and started to received alerts from her Blink security cameras. The man first tried to get in the front door, then the...

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July 13/14 Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - World Wide Dylan: Ks and Js

1) "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" by Kirby Knob Boys
2) "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Kula Shaker
3) "Blowin' in the Wind" by Ka'ala Boys
4) "Hazel" by Doug Jayne
5) "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" by Bill Kirchen
6) "You're a Big Girl Now" by Burton Jesperson
7) "One More...

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July 13/14 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - Something Else Again

1) "Forbidden Fruit" by Oscar Brown, Jr.
2) "My Walking Stick" by Leon Redbone
3) "The Nearness of You" by Norah Jones
4) "Smoke on the Water" by Judith Owen
5) "Train Out of Hollywood" by Judith Owen
6) "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Abbie Gardner
7) "The Snake" by...

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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will hold a rally this afternoon to protest the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital in Center City Philadelphia. The rally will take place at 2 p.m. outside of the hospital located at 230 N. Broad Street. The hospital's parent company announced plans to close the 171-year-old institution last month citing financial...

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The man who climbed high up on the rusting structure of the blast furnace at a former steel mill in the Lehigh Valley on Friday night, 7/12, is facing felony charges. 25-year-old Jonathan David Wallace of Mertztown is charged with felony risking a catastrophe, as well as reckless endangering and defiant trespass. He climbed to the top of the steel structure at the old Bethlehem Steel Corp....

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A pregnant mother and her 9-year-old son were killed after their car was swept away in flash floods in Berks County on Thursday, 7/11. It happened around 4:30 p.m. on Pine Forge Road in Douglass Township. 31-year-old Pamela Synder and her son Preston Dray became stranded in their Mazda after Snyder attempted to drive through flood waters overflowing from the nearby Manatawny Creek. She...

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Nine people were injured in a car crash involving 2 vehicles and pedestrians outside of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City on Friday afternoon, 7/12. It happened around 4:05 p.m. at 10th and Sansom Streets. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but it appears that a car rear ended an SUV. Hospital nursing staff came out to help the victims and placed them directly...

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