Surveillance video released shows a Philadelphia police officer getting struck by a hit-and-run driver in Manayunk early Thursday morning. It happened on the 4100 block of Main Street near Shurs Lane just before 1 a.m. The police sergeant was standing at the window of a cruiser during a traffic stop when a 2008 Toyota Rav-4 driving southbound hits him and keeps going. The sergeant was...

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Longtime Philadelphia Phillies C Carlos Ruiz has been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for catcher A.J. Ellis, minor league RHP Tommy Bergjans & a player to be named later. Ruiz was first signed by the organization in 1998 and made his major league debut in 2006. He was a core member of the teams that won 5 straight NL East titles from 2007-2011, including the 2008 World Series and 2009 National...

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The death toll from the earthquakes in Italy has more than tripled since yesterday. More the 240 people are now confirmed dead. Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs are digging through crumbled homes looking for survivors of the magnitude 6 quake that struck at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday. At least 470 aftershocks have since rattled the area -- one as strong as magnitude 5.1. After a night of...

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Too many patients are getting multiple prescriptions for narcotics by visiting doctor after doctor. Beginning Thursday, doctors in Pennsylvania have a new tool to battle opioid drug addiction. Physicians enter a name into a statewide data base to find out if that patient has recently been prescribed a narcotic elsewhere in the Commonwealth. Dr. Jack Kelly, Chairman of Emergency Medicine for the...

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Lawyers representing 17 people injured when a railing collapsed at a Snoop Dogg/Wiz Khalifa concert in Camden, NJ earlier this month have filed a lawsuit against the venue and the performers. The suit claims that enough precautions were not taken to ensure the safety of the concertgoers. The lawsuit was filed in Philadelphia by attorney Robert J. Mongeluzzi and includes 14 concertgoers and...

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A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, with reports that as many as 75 people were killed and hundreds injured as rescue crews raced to dig out survivors. The toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets where the scenes were apocalyptic "like Dante's Inferno," according to one witness.

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The presidential race returned to Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, talked about the economy in Montgomery County. He also toured a tubing manufacturer. With CBS3, Pence touched on a report that more than half of the non-governmental meetings that Hillary Clinton had while Secretary of State involved donors and The Clinton Foundation, saying "they should shut down...

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24-year-old Zachary Tricoche was arraigned today in Camden County Superior Court on murder charges in the death of 2-year-old Jamil Baskerville Jr. Prosecutors allege that Tricoche was upset and got into an argument with his girlfriend, the boy's mother, for buying the wrong groceries. He punched the child in the chest so hard he flew into the wall. The boy got up and Tricoche punched him...

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The Rio Olympics are over and athletes are heading home. Philadelphia's own track and field athlete Nia Ali got a triumphant welcome at Philadelphia International Airport at about 2am. Ali earned silver in the 100-meter hurdles, while teammate Brianna Rollins got gold and Kristi Castlin took bronze. That gave the U.S. its first sweep in the event. Family and friends were there to greet her and...

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August 20/21 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment

1) "Summertime" by Billy Stewart
2) "Don & Dewey" by It's a Beautiful Day
3) "I Go Swimming" by Peter Gabriel
4) "Girls in their Summer Clothes" by Bruce Springsteen
5) "Soul of a Village Part 2" by Joe Zawinul
6) "Twisting by the Pool" by Dire Straits
7) "Soapstone Mountain" by...

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