A gas station attendant was shot and remains in serious condition after an attempted robbery in Northwest Philadelphia on Friday night. It happened around 10 p.m. on the 8900 block of Ridge Avenue in the Andorra neighborhood. The employee was closing for the night when he was approached by two masked men. One was armed with a semi-automatic rifle. They tried to take money from the register...

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According to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, 68-year-old Dr. James Kauffman was found dead in his cell this morning of an apparent suicide. Kauffman is charged with arranging the murder of his wife and running a pill mill out of his office. He was found in his Hudson County Correctional Center cell this morning around 9:20 a.m. He apparently used a strip of his bedsheet to kill...

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Philadelphia's new district attorney Larry Krasner has created a new position in the DA's officer that will protect immigrants trying to navigate the criminal justice system. The DA's office says that the new position will help people move through the system without facing "disproportionate consequences" due to their status. Former immigration attorney Caleb U. Arnold was named to the...

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Police are looking for four suspects who robbed a man at gunpoint at his home in Olney on Wednesday afternoon. It happened around 3:15 p.m. on the 5400 block of North 2nd Street in Philadelphia. 44-year-old Khamphoy Detmongkhoune had just placed his child in the car when a man dressed as a postal worker walking down the street pulled a gun. The suspect forced him back into the home. This...

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Philadelphia Police are now investigating after a man was shot in Center City on Wednesday night. The shooting took place at around 8:30 pm on the 1500 block of Chestnut Street. Police arrived on the scene to find a 24-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right wrist. The victim was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital where he was listed in stable condition. So far no arrests have...

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A man is under arrest after his mother was found dead in her East Falls apartment on Wednesday morning. Police went to The Avenue at East Falls apartment complex on the 5400 block of Wissahickon Avenue around noon to perform a welfare check after other family members had not heard from her. They discovered 49-year-old Tammy Blount dead from stab wounds and blunt force trauma. Her son...

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January 20/21 Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - BBC Archive Show, Almost Strictly Jazz 1

1) "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
2) "Lover Come Back to Me" by Dizzy Gillespie
3) "Synchronicity" by Gil Evans
4) "Come Sunday" by Cannonball Adderley Sextet
5) "Something's Got to Give" by Ella Fitzgerald
6) "Honeysuckle...

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January 20/21 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - D, E, & F

1) "One of Our Submarines is Missing" by Thomas Dolby
2) "Masters of War" by Flying Pickets
3) "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" by Ian Dury & the Blockheads
4) "Wake Up and Make Love to Me" by Ian Dury & the Blockheads
5) "Friday I'm in Love" by Janet Devlin
6) "American...

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Philadelphia Police are now investigating after a quadruple shooting sent four victims to the hospital. The shooting took place at around 9:35 pm on North 24th Street near Clifford Street. Police received calls about a shooting and shortly arrived on the scene to find one victim in a car on the way to Hahnemann University Hospital. Police took another victim to Temple University Hospital....

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The mother of a 4-year-old boy and her boyfriend have been accused of beating the child to death for spilling his cereal. The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office announced that 19-year-old Lisa Smith and 26-year-old Keiff King have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault, criminal attempted murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and other related charges. Abington...

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