A rowhome fire in Philadelphia killed 12 people, including eight children, on Wednesday morning, 1/5. The victims range in age from two to 33 years old. It started around 6:40 a.m. on the 800 block of North 23rd Street in the Fairmount neighborhood. The Philadelphia fire department arrived to heavy flames coming from the second floor. The building is a three-story rowhome which was...

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Winter will come rushing back in overnight. The recent mild weather will be replaced by freezing temps and wintery precipitation. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect in Philadelphia and New Jersey suburbs. A Winter Storm Warning is in effect down the shore. Snow will start overnight and through the day Monday. Philadelphia can expect 1-3" of snow. Higher amounts will be seen south and...

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Authorities in Montgomery County are searching for a female suspect who is wanted for shooting her mother's fiance in the lobby of a Lower Merion apartment complex on New Year's Eve. 24-year-old Samiyah Williams is charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, and possessing an instrument of crime in the death of 49-year-old Adrionne Reaves. It happened just before 10 p.m. Friday...

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The Philadelphia Mummers Parade has been moved to Sunday, January 2 due to the forecast for rain on New Year's Day. The schedule for the String Bands, Comic, and Wench Brigades march down Broad Street will remain the same, just shifted one day. The Fancy Brigades will still perform Saturday's ticketed shows at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. since those are...

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iradiophilly will be celebrating New Year's Eve in several ways on-air Thursday evening. We'll be soaring into 2022 by winding back to the roaring 20s on Martini Lounge Radio. Our station that features the singers and swingers of the Great American Songbook will turning back the clock 100 years on Thursday evening and highlighting the best of the 1920s. Listen starting at 6pm through midnight to...

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A commissioner of a Delaware County township has been arrested by Philadelphia police for a 2017 sexual assault. 50-year-old Marvin Smith is charged with rape, sexual assault, luring, and related offenses. He is the 1st ward commissioner in Darby Township. The attack allegedly occurred in August 2017. The victim went to police in April 2019 to report the crime. Allegedly, Smith was driving...

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Police in Bucks County are searching for the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident that killed a man on Christmas Eve. It happened shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, 12/24, on State Road near Fourth Avenue. 65-year-old John Dugan was crossing the street with his fiance when he fell. That is when he was struck by a cherry red Chevy Silverado pickup with black rims that did not stop after the...

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December 25/26 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - World Wide Dylan: Box 3 Part 6

1) "Down in the Flood" by Derek Trucks Band
2) "Straight A's in Love" by The Williams Brothers
3) "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Wyclef Jean
4) "Only a Hobo" by Tremblay Evans
5) "Buckets of Rain" by Dylan-Thomas Vance
6) "If Not For You" by Derek Webb & Sandra...

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December 25/26 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment #450 - World Wide Dylan - Mostly Recent Covers

1) "Meet Me in the Morning" by Lucinda Williams
2) "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" by Chrissie Hynde
3) "I Contain Multitudes" by Emma Swift
4) "The Wicked Messenger" by Jerry Garcia Band
5) "Blind Willie McTell" by Lucinda Williams
6) "In the...

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Three people died in a fiery crash at a toll booth on the Atlantic City Expressway in Atlantic County on Sunday evening, 12/26. It happened on the eastbound side of the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza near Exit 17 in Mays Landing, Hamilton Township. The car was carrying four siblings when it struck the toll booth and burst into flames. New Jersey State Police have identified the victims. 31-year-old...

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