Hip hop star and actress Queen Latifah was announced as this year's Marian Anderson Award recipient. The Marian Anderson Award honors critically acclaimed artists who have impacted society in a positive way, either through their work or their support for an important cause. This is the 20th year the award has been given. The ceremony will be held at the Kimmel Center for the Performing...

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A man sought by authorities in Bucks County for allegedly groping multiple teen girls in a Target store came forward and was arrested. 41-year-old Scott Raila of Horsham is charged with two counts of indecent assault, three counts of corruption of minors, and one count of indecent assault with a victim under 13 years of age. Raila is accused of touching three girls, ages 15, 13, and 12, on...

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Rapper Post Malone was on a private jet that made an emergency landing this afternoon in Orange County, New York, after the plane blew two tires during takeoff this morning from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The Gulfstream IV jet took off around 10:50 a.m. and was heading to London Luton Airport in Luton, England. The plane's pilot circled the area for hours burning fuel. Airports in...

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August 18/19 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - Albums of 1969 Part 4

1) "Gypsy" by Moody Blues
2) "Dark Eyed Woman" by Spirit
3) "Highway 61 Revisited" by Johnny Winter
4) "Australia" by Kinks
5) "Don't Want You No More/Ain't My Cross to Bear" by Allman Brothers Band
6) "Light Flight" by Pentangle
7) "Take Me Back" by...

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Philadelphia Police have arrested a man accused of posing as a landscaper and then sexually assaulting a women at gunpoint in East Germantown earlier this month. 22-year-old Keion Wells of the 6600 block of Crawson Street is charged with aggravated assault, robbery, rape, sex assault and other offenses. It happened on August 7 on the unit block of East Johnson Street. Wells pretended to be...

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A junkyard fire caused serious delays on SEPTA and Amtrak train service through Northeast Philadelphia on Sunday night and early Monday morning. The fire started just before 7 p.m. Sunday, 8/19, near Torresdale and Adams Avenues in Frankford. Thick black smoke could be seen for miles. SEPTA's Trenton and Chestnut Hill West Regional Rail and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor were suspended as the...

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Arrest warrants have been issued for three men in connection with the shooting of two undercover detectives in Camden earlier this month. 19-year-old Alexander DeJesus of Philadelphia, 26-year-old Ammar Hall of Camden, and 20-year-old Juan Figueroa of Camden have all been charged with first degree attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons offenses. Police are now searching for...

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A contractor died after being trapped for several hours in a trench that collapsed in Philadelphia's East Oak Lane neighborhood on Thursday, 8/16. It happened around 11 a.m. on the 100 block of West Walnut Park Drive. Men were doing plumbing work in the hole at the time when dirt and concrete began to refill the trench. Some workers got out, but the contractor was buried underneath the...

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Legendary singer Aretha Franklin, "The Queen of Soul," has passed away at the age of 76. She was at home in Detroit surrounded by family and friends. She was suffering from pancreatic cancer. Franklin's last public performance was last August 2017 at the Mann Center in Philadelphia. She last performed for the Elton John AIDS Foundation in New York in Novermber 2017. Franklin is known for hits...

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Philadelphia Police are investigating after a local track star was shot and killed in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia on Monday night, 8/13. It happened around 9:40 p.m. on the 1800 Block of East Pastorius Street. 18-year-old Kristian Marche was found in a driveway with a gunshot to the head. He was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center. He died from his injuries Tuesday night,...

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