25-year-old Brian Smart of Hatboro collapsed just after the 8-mile mark of the 10-mile Broad Street Run on Sunday morning, 5/5. He had suffered a heart attack and was transferred to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he passed away. Smart was currently employed at Upper Darby High School in Delaware County as an athletic trainer for multiple sports. He has worked at...

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A distraught man set a van on fire and attempted to set himself on fire in a Starbucks in Huntingdon Valley on Saturday, 5/4. It happened around 4:30 p.m. in the Huntingdon Valley Shopping Center on the 800 block of Huntingdon Pike. Police arrived to find a van engulfed in flames in the parking lot. A man standing near the van doused himself with a flammable substance. He ran into the...

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Philadelphia police are investigating after a man posed as a Philadelphia Water Department employee during a robbery last week in the Grays Ferry neighborhood. It happened around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 4/23, on the 3600 block of Wharton Street. He was caught on surveillance camera looking at homes. He was wearing a reflective vest when he knocked on the victim's home. The suspect told the...

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GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR PHILADELPHIA'S FREE JULY 4TH CONCERT AT THE WAWA WELCOME AMERICA FESTIVAL

Film and Music Icon, Jennifer Hudson, performing alongside The Philly POPS BIG Band, and Pop Superstar, Meghan Trainor Slated for Showstopping Performances on the Independence Blue Cross Stage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Philadelphia, Pa. (May 2,...

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Philadelphia Police have identified a suspect wanted for the shooting of a 13-year-old boy at a convenience store in Southwest Philadelphia early Wednesday morning, 5/1. Police are looking for 19-year-old Rafiq Small of Lansdowne. He is wanted for attempted murder and is considered armed and dangerous. The shooting happened at 12:30 a.m. at the Island Supermarket at Woodland and Island...

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Swarthmore College's two fraternities, Delta Upsilon and Phi Psi, have voted to disband. They posted statements to their Facebook pages on Tuesday night, 4/30. The frats' decisions come after student protests calling for them to be shutdown. A few weeks ago, two campus publications, The Phoenix and Voices, published internal Phi Psi documents from 2012 to 2016. These documents included...

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The Philadelphia Music & Arts Festival (PHL Music Fest) has announced the lineup for this year's festival happening September 25-28, 2019. In its third year, the fest is will be playing in three venues over four nights. The lineup is by design all Philly artists/bands and includes Man Man, Ali Awan, RFA, Foxtrot and the Get Down, Arnetta Johnson, Speedy Ortiz, Secret American, and more.

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April 27/28 Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - Making an 'S' Out of Myself

1) "The Show Must Go On" by Leo Sayer
2) "Bad Luck" by Social Distortion
3) "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by the Smithereens
4) "The Toughest Girl in the World" by Syd Straw
5) "Love On the Wrong Side of Town" by Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
6) "Stranger in the House"...

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April 27/28 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - BBC Archives Folk Favorites

1) "The New St. George" by The Albion Band
2) "May You Never" by John Martyn
3) "Next Time Around" by Sandy Denny
4) "Catch a Falling Star" by Bridget St. John
5) "Sun Comes Up It's Tuesday Morning" by Cowboy Junkies
6) "I'll See You Again" by Roy Harper

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A music teacher at Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor Township, Delaware County, has been accused of having sexual contact with students. Jeremy Triplett is charged with a felony count of institutional sexual assault of a minor, as well as charges of child endangerment, corruption of minors, and furnishing minors with alcohol. He is accused of having sex with one female student...

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