SEPTA police are asking the public's help in identifying a suspect wanted for two arsons on the Broad Street Line. They both happened on Saturday night, 10/9. The first fire was set around 11:05 p.m. at the Susquehanna-Dauphin Station. The man used a lighter to set a shirt and a cone on fire. He then boarded a train heading southbound. The man got off the train at the Ellsworth-Federal...

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A Philadelphia judge has ordered the City of Philadelphia to remove the plywood box surrounding the statue of Christopher Columbus in Marconi Plaza on South Broad Street. Judge Paula Patrick of the Court of Common Pleas signed the order on Friday, 10/8, granting the appeal brought by the Friends of Marconi Plaza. The statue was boxed up by the city in June 2020 after it became a focal...

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New Jersey authorities have released police body cam video from a fatal police-involved shooting in Mantua Township last month. It happened around 1:35 a.m. September 14 on Elm Avenue. 49-year-old Charles Sharp III called 911 to report that several people were trespassing on his property including one person armed with a gun. The video starts as officers arrive on scene. They come upon...

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The Philadelphia Flyers have narrowed down the list of potential new 'goal songs' to three finalists. Fans submitted more than 4,000 suggestions and nominations in the initial rounds. Different goal celebration songs were tried out at the Wells Fargo Center during preseason games to come up the three finalists. Fans now have a chance to participate in the final selection process by ranking the...

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A Philadelphia Police officer is under investigation after video from an encounter with a man walking on the street in North Philly on New Year's Eve has resurfaced on social media. "Officer Hoover" seems to be harassing the man recording the video. That man is trying to walk to his car from his relative's house. The man tries to walk away several times, but the officer seemingly won't...

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A Chester County woman has been arrested and charged with the murder of her father and his girlfriend in his Long Beach Island shore home. 55-year-old Sherry Hefferman of Landenberg, PA, is charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon in the deaths of her father 87-year-old John Enders of Surf City and 75-year-old Francoise Pitoy...

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A hospital worker armed with multiple weapons, including an AR-15 rifle, entered Jefferson Hospital and shot a co-worker early Monday morning, 10/4. It happened just after midnight at Jefferson University Hospital at 11th and Chestnut in Center City. The 55-year-old male suspect who works as a certified nursing aide entered the hospital wearing scrubs and body armor. He went to the ninth...

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Philadelphia Police are investigating after hundreds of people gathering near City Hall to watch illegal drift racing activity late Saturday night, 10/2. It happened just before Midnight at the intersection of 15th and Market Streets next to Dilworth Plaza. The incident was caught on video and shared via social media. (see below) A large crowd gathered and surrounded the intersection. Several...

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Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect wanted for assaulting a pregnant woman at knife point at a SEPTA subway station on Wednesday night, 9/29. It happened around 11:30 p.m. at the Lombard-South Station on the Broad Street Line. 26-year-old David Dash is accused of approaching a 20-year-old pregnant woman from behind and putting a knife to her throat as she stood at a fare kiosk....

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Philadelphia Police have identified the suspect and the victim in a deadly shooting at a North Philadelphia office building late Friday morning, 10/1. 59-year-old Wayne John Dorylis of Milford, Delaware, has been charged with murder, causing/risking a catastrophe, and several other weapons charges in the death of 25-year-old Nassir Day. It happened around 11:30 a.m. at Logan Plaza on the...

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