An older man was killed and a 16-year-old was injured in a double shooting outside a high school in Philadelphia's Mayfair section on Monday afternoon, 10/18. It happened around 2:45 p.m. as classes were let out outside Abraham Lincoln High School on the 7400 block of Rowland Avenue. Two groups were fighting when a 21-year-old man pulled out a gun. A 16-year-old student at the school was...

Read More

Thursday night, 10/14, a group of fans of The Main Point in Bryn Mawr gathered to unveil a bronze plaque to commemorate the iconic music venue on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr that closed 40 years ago. The celebration took place at the Kelly Center for Music, Arts and Community in Havertown, PA where supporters gathered to share photos and...

Read More

Upper Darby and SEPTA police are investigating after a woman was raped on a SEPTA Market-Frankford El train on Wednesday night, 10/13. It happened around 11 p.m. on a westbound train as it approached the 69th Street Terminal. 35-year-old Fiston M. Ngoy has was arrested and charged with rape, indecent assault, sexual assault and other related charges. Authorities say that video shows Ngoy...

Read More

Abington Township police are looking for a suspect wanted for allegedly filming a woman inside a mall dressing room. It happened on August 29 inside a store at Willow Grove Park Mall. The young woman was trying on clothes when she noticed the suspect trying to film her under the door. She notified the store employees, but the man had fled. Police reviewed surveillance footage. They...

Read More

The United States Supreme Court decided not to review the case involving supervised injection sites in Philadelphia. The case has gone back and forth between courts over the years. A U.S. appeals court most recently decided against allowing them. That is where it stands since the Supreme Court won't take up the case. It hinges on a federal law referred to as 'crackhouse laws' that makes it...

Read More

A University of Delaware student has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped and attacked a female student in his off-campus apartment on Friday, 10/8. 20-year-old Brandon Freyre of Maryland is charged with kidnapping second degree, assault second degree, strangulation, terroristic threatening, assault third degree, and criminal mischief. It happened around 4 a.m. Friday, 10/8, in...

Read More

A man abducted a woman after running her off the road near Bethlehem, PA, on Tuesday morning, 10/12, and was caught hours later near the Holland Tunnel. 27-year-old Ruben Carrion Melendez is charged with kidnapping, unlawful restraint, terroristic threats, recklessly endangerment, and simple assault. It started around 7:15 a.m. near the QVC warehouse on the 3400 Commerce Center Boulevard....

Read More

October 9/10 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - WWD Box 3 of 3 part 2

1) "If You Gotta Go" by Thee Shams
2) "Everything is Broken" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd
3) "Wedding Song" by Megan Reilly
4) "Love Sick" by Duke Robillard
5) "Abandoned Love" by Silver Shoes
6) "Man in the Long Black CoatvSiberia
7) "Odds and Ends" by Radio Free Earth

Read More

October 9/10 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - Long Long Ago 3

1) "Keep on the Sunny Side" by The Carter Family, 1928
2) "Stardust" by Dark Chocolate Dandies, 1928
3) "One O'Clock Jump" by Count Basie & His Orchestra, 1937
4) "Blood in My Eyes for You" by Mississippi Shieks, 1934
5) "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burning" by Blind Willie...

Read More

A Pennsylvania woman who was arrested last week and charged with killing her 87-year-old father and his girlfriend on Long Beach Island, NJ, says that she was framed. 55-year-old Sherry Lee Heffernan was taken into custody at her Landenberg, Chester County, home on October 4. She said she would have surrendered "if I had known I was wanted for something." She did not elaborate on how she...

Read More