Tropical Storm Hermine has been upgraded to a Hurricane by the National Weather Service with maximum sustained winds now exceeding 75mph. It will make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight or tomorrow morning as it continues to head northeast. Tropical Storm Watches have been issued for Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey for Labor Day Weekend. Winds and...

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket apparently exploded on its Florida launch pad today during a dress rehearsal for a satellite launch, which had been scheduled for this weekend. Thick black smoke and flames could be seen billowing from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Social media users in the area reported hearing and feeling several consecutive blasts from the direction of the...

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Horror stories about lack of supplies at Philadelphia public schools have hit home among education advocates. Now, there's a citywide effort to fill the supplies gap. Todd Bernstein, founder of Global Citizen is also the organizer behind the Philadelphia School Supplies Drive in partnership with other groups. Their goal - fill the supplies gap caused by lack of funding for Philadelphia public...

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The National Football League, the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Philadelphia Eagles announced that they will be holding a press conference at City Hall on Thursday at Noon. They are expected to announce that Philadelphia will host the 2017 NFL Draft next April. Chicago has hosted the draft the past two years. New York was the host from...

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It has happened again. A 12-year-old girl was shot and wounded by a stray bullet in the city's Fairhill neighborhood. She was just one of three innocent bystanders hit in a triple shooting in which at least 19 shots were fired. Police say gunfire broke out just before 6:30pm Tuesday at N. Marshall and W. Clearfield streets. The girl was leaving a corner store when she was shot in her right leg...

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Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos wowed the judges and the crowds on America's Got Talent once again Tuesday night. The NFL player has taken his magic act to the small screen this summer and keeps impressing the voters to make it to the semi-finals. Tuesday's act incorporated a few football snaps and throws before the surprise secret reveal. All of his acts leave you thinking, "How he...

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Authorities now say that it was an argument, not the so called 'knockout game,' which triggered a fatal punch. The incident was caught on camera in the city's Lawncrest section. The punch sent 30-year-old Mardoqeo Sincal-Jochola stumbling to the ground. He died as a result of his injuries, shortly after. The incident happened Friday in the 700 block of Adams Avenue. Police are searching for the...

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Five people have been charged in yesterday's shootings on the Atlantic City Expressway in Egg Harbor Township, NJ. One person was killed and four people were injured. The shootout happened on the eastbound Expressway near the Garden State Parkway around 3pm. Shots were fired between multiple vehicles. A bullet-riddled white Ford Expedition containing four injured men was found in the...

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The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, New Jersey is treating Loggerhead Sea Turtle after a run in with a boat propeller. Staff there rescued the 140 lb. female Thursday near the Oyster Creek Nuclear plant, after it was apparently injured by a boat propeller. The female loggerhead had been spotted on the intake pipe of the plant and a worker pushed the turtle back into the water, but...

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The state Senate is set to return nearly a month earlier than scheduled Tuesday to vote on Bruce Beemer's nomination to serve the nearly five months that remain in Kathleen Kane's term as Pennsylvania attorney general. The anticipated Senate vote on confirmation of former First Deputy Attorney General Bruce Beemer to serve as Attorney General will come less than two weeks after Bruce Castor...

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