The Philadelphia Board of Pensions voted on Thursday to disqualify former District Attorney Seth Williams from collecting a pension. Williams resigned from his post on June 29th after he pled guilty to a single count of bribery in the middle of his federal corruption trial. The rest of his charges were dropped. The board acted on provisions under the State Public Employee Forfeiture Act...

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Philadelphia officials have now voted and decided who will be the interim District Attorney to replace former DA Seth Williams. The panel of judges voted for former Assistant District Attorney Kelley Hodge, who received the most amount of votes among the four candidates up for the position. The process for the voting is done in a very interesting way. Each of the 88 judges from the Court...

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Chester Bennington, lead singer of band Linkin Park, was found dead in his home in the Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday morning. His body was discovered around 9 a.m. by an employee. He apparently committed suicide by hanging. Bennington was home alone, his family was out of town at the time. He leaves behind a wife and 6 children. The singer was close with Soundgarden...

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Bucks County authorities returned to the DiNardo farm property in Solebury Township on Thursday. There was a noticeable increase in activity on the property since last week when the bodies of 4 missing men were discovered buried. 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo has confessed to the murders of the men. His cousin, 20-year-old Sean Kratz, has been charged in three of the killings. Today, police...

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A 13-year-old boy is now in critical condition after severely injuring his leg when trying to jump onto a train. The incident happened just after 5 pm in North Philadelphia on Wednesday. Police say the boy was trying to jump onto a moving CSX train on the Conrail tracks. The boy was taken to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, where he later had to have his leg amputated due to the...

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A married Pennsylvania couple has been sentenced to up seven years in prison for 'gifting' their six daughters to a Bucks County man who was found guilty of sexually assaulting them back in June. Judge Jeffrey L. Finley handed down the sentence to the parents Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus this afternoon in a Doylestown courtroom. They previously pled guilty to child endangerment. The couple...

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Former Philadelphia 76ers and LaSalle University basketball player Doug Overton pled guilty today to three counts of disorderly conduct. Back in April, Overton was arrested after being accused of exposing himself on the Cynwyd Heritage Trail in Lower Merion. Police received several calls about a man exposing himself along the trail. He was sentenced to one year of probation and agreed to a...

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Philadelphia Police are now investigating after a man was shot in the head in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. The shooting took place on the 1600 block of Margaret Street at around 9:30 pm on Tuesday night. Police arrived on the scene to find the man unresponsive and he was pronounced dead on the scene. So far there is no word on any suspects or a motive at this time.

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Philadelphia police have charged a man with the murder of his 2-year-old son. 24-year-old Quadim Bass is charged with Murder and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Police were called to the 1600 block of North 57th Street on Friday afternoon just after 1 p.m. for the report of someone screaming. Bass told officers that he was playing video games when he heard a thump and realized his son...

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Police are searching for the suspects who stole 4 exotic birds at a petting zoo in Berks County over the weekend. The burglary took place overnight Sunday into Monday at the Oley Dairy Turnpike Zoo. The suspects got away with 4 of the birds in the petting zoo, one of them including a 20-year-old African Gray Parrot. Police found human blood at the scene, which they believe was drawn from...

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