A young girl is in critical condition after a firework exploded in her hands inside her Kensington home on Sunday morning, 6/30. It happened around 10:35 a.m. on the 1800 block of East Wishart Street. The 9-year-old girl found the firework, possibly an M80, inside her house. She lit the explosive and it went off while she was holding it. The girl was taken to St. Christopher's hospital in...

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Philadelphia Police are seeking the public's help in finding a teenager that has been missing since Thursday morning, 6/27. 13-year-old Kymirah Bennett was last seen around 10 a.m. on the 2300 block of South 25th Street. She is 5'7", 125 lbs, medium brown complexion with brown eyes, and shoulder length black straight hair. She was last seen wearing a dark tank top, dark shorts, and red van...

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Hahnemann University Hospital says it is no longer accepting trauma patients, however, the emergency room will remain open for now. The Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation says they were notified of Hahnemann's decision on Friday night, 6/28. The de-designation as a Level 1 and Level 2 trauma center is effective immediately. Hahnemann's Charles C. Wolferth Trauma Center was completed in...

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A suspect trying to escape custody was shot and killed outside of a Delaware County District Court on Friday morning, 6/28. It happened around 10:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the court on the 500 block of Ridge Road in the Linwood section of Lower Chichester Township. Delaware County District Attorney Kat Copeland said in a press conference on Friday afternoon that the suspect,...

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A mural dedicated to the late Philadelphia Sgt. Robert Wilson III in 2017 was defaced sometime on Thursday, 6/27. The mural, on the 2900 block of Ridge Avenue in Strawberry Mansion, features a portrait of Wilson in uniform. He died in the line of duty while protecting customers and employees inside a GameStop store during an armed robbery in March 2015. The graffiti contains an unclear...

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On Thursday, 6/27, the Pennsylvania Department of Health ordered the owners of Hahnemann University Hospital to 'cease and desist' any plans to close the hospital and halt actions aimed at winding down services. The company that owns Hahnemann announced on Wednesday that it intended to close the hospital by September due to financial losses and would start diverting trauma patients as...

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney confirmed on Wednesday that Philadelphia Energy Solutions has decided to shut down its South Philadelphia refinery complex. Early Friday morning, 6/21, several large explosions and a fire tore through the Girard Point refinery. The 150-year-old facility also contains the Point Breeze refinery. It is the largest facility on the East Coast and processes 335,000...

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A giant animatronic dinosaur made its way through Center City on Wednesday morning, 6/26, on the back of a flatbed truck. The 40-foot-long Spinosaurus started its journey in Somerdale, Camden County. It crossed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, through the city, and down and around the Benjamin Franklin Parkway before arriving at its final destination outside of the Academy of Natural Sciences...

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The Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman has resigned after a report in the Inquirer on messages he exchanged with a former Philadelphia City Council candidate. 51-year-old Val DiGiorgio stepped down from the GOP post on Tuesday, 6/25. DiGiorgio and 35-year-old Irina Goldstein sent each other sexually charged text messages for months. She now says she was sexually harrassed. In his...

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10 cadets at the Philadelphia Police Academy have resigned after they had planned on cheating on an exam, but were discovered before actually taking the test. All ten cadets were members of the same platoon and the test in question was the motor vehicle code written exam. "One of the members of that platoon had obtained the answers to the test - which by the way, would have been an...

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