A fight outside a 7-Eleven store in Northeast Philadelphia early Saturday morning ended in gunfire. It started around 3 a.m. in the parking lot of the convenience store on the 6900 block of Torresdale Ave. at Disston Street in the Tacony section. A 49-year-old man and a man in his 30s got into a fight. Shots were fired. The older man was shot in the shoulder and foot. The younger man...
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The cousin of a 14-year-old Bucks County girl who was found stabbed multiple times and shot in the head has now been charged with murder. 20-year-old Colin Haag III is accused of killing 14-year-old Autumn Bartle last week in the home they shared in Croydon, Bristol Township. Bartle was found last Friday night when her parents arrived home. She was taken to St. Christopher's Hospital where...
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A private trash truck plowed through a Grays Ferry neighborhood early this morning heavily damaging several parked cars. It happened at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday on Reed Street near 26th Street. The driver of the truck told police a mechanical problem caused him to crash into several cars. 10 vehicles in total were damaged. At least one car ended up on top of another. Neighbors were awoken by...
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Details have been announced for the Villanova National Championship Parade to celebrate the Wildcats' win in the NCAA Championship Monday night in San Antonio. The men's basketball team beat Michigan 79-62 to win their 2nd title in the past 3 years and third overall. Sophomore G Donte DiVincenzo scored a team high 31 points off the bench and won Most Outstanding Player. The parade will be...
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Jury selection started in the Cosby selection assault retrial on Monday in Norristown. After the first day, only 1 juror has been seated. That juror indicated that he had no knowledge of the case and would be impartial despite hearing about the #MeToo movement. Out of the 120 potential jurors in the panel, only 10 have not heard about the case and only 1 had not heard about the #MeToo...
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Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in the sexual assault retrial of entertainer Bill Cosby. 187 potential jurors have been summoned to the Montgomery County Court House in Norristown. Panelists will answer questions as a group, as well as be questioned individually by lawyers on both sides. It will be almost impossible to find a panelist who has not heard of the case, considering the...
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New Jersey State police are searching for a suspect who stole a vehicle from a Wawa in Salem County. It happened on Saturday night, March 31st, just before midnight. The suspect stole a Ford Fairmont from the parking lot of the store in Pilesgrove Township. The car was later recovered abandoned in Newark, Delaware. Police say that a cell phone was taken from the vehicle. The suspect was...
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Abington Senior High School in Montgomery County will not be named after a wealthy donor following a public outcry and online petition this past week. Billionaire alumnus Stephen Schwarzman donated $25 million to the school. Earlier this week, the school district announced plans to change the name of the school to Abington Schwarzman High School after the Blackstone Group CEO. That...
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Officials in Collingswood, NJ, are searching for a 12-year-old girl who possibly went missing with a 21-year-old Florida man. The Camden County Prosecutor's Office says that 12-year-old Kayla Sparano was last seen by a friend at Collingswood High School during the day on Thursday, March 29th. She was seen later that day around 2 p.m. at the Collingswood PATCO station. Sparano may be...
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iRadioPhilly is resurrecting an Easter morning Philadelphia radio tradition for the 7th straight year. iRadioPhilly will being playing the original theatrical Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera from the 1970 album in its entirety on one of its radio stations on this upcoming Easter morning, April 1st.
During the 1970's and 1980's, Philadelphia's progressive...
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