A man convicted of killing a trans woman and LGBTQ+ advocate in May 2019 has been sentenced. 30-year-old Troy Bailey was found guilty of third-degree murder and other charges in the death of 40-year-old Michelle "Tamika" Washington last week. He was sentenced to 25-50 years in prison. It happened around 5 a.m. Sunday, 5/19/19, on the 3400 block of North 11th Street. Washington was shot...

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Five stowaways were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents after they were discovered on a container ship in port in Delaware County. It happened on Monday afternoon, 7/26, at Penn Terminals in Eddystone, PA. Officials were searching the AS PETRA sailing under the Liberian flag. When agents encountered the stowaways, the men jumped into the water and swam to shore in an...

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A firefighter was killed and three other first responders were injured when they were struck by a suspected DUI driver on the Schuylkill Expressway early Saturday morning, 7/24. It happened after 3:00 a.m. in the westbound lanes of I-76 near Waverly Road. Fire crews from Belmont Hills Fire Company and Gladwyne Fire Company responded to a two-vehicle crash on the highway blocking the right...

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A New Jersey woman has been charged after she was caught on video shouting racial slurs and throwing items at a hotel clerk early Monday morning, 7/19. It happened around 12:30 a.m. at the Super 8 Motel on Fellowship Road in Mount Laurel, NJ. Mount Laurel Police Department responded to a report a women being disorderly in the lobby of the hotel. They found 46-year-old Elizabeth Trzeciak of...

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Philadelphia Police have identified the suspect arrested in the fatal shooting outside of Pat's Steaks early Thursday morning, 7/22. 36-year-old Paul Burkert of Reading, PA, has been charged with the murder of 23-year-old David Padro of Camden, NJ. It happened just before 1 a.m. outside the iconic cheesesteak shop in South Philadelphia. The two men were in line to order when they got into...

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A man was shot and killed while in line at Pat's King of Steaks in South Philadelphia early Thursday morning, 7/22. It happened around 1 a.m. outside the landmark cheesesteak shop bound by 9th Street, Wharton Street, and Passayunk Avenue. Police say that 6 or 7 people were waiting in line on the sidewalk to order when an argument and fight broke out between two customers. One person pulled...

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2 adults and 4 children were injured after a home exploded in Chester County on Wednesday, 7/21. It happened just before 12 p.m. on the 400 block of Hibernia Road in West Brandywine Township. The sprawling property has numerous buildings and a large pool. The family was in the main farmhouse at the time the explosion happened. The blast was felt in the township municipal building and...

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A banner plane experiencing engine trouble made an emergency landing in Cape May County, NJ, Monday afternoon, 7/19. It happened around 12:40 p.m. on the 9th Street Bridge between Ocean City and Somers Point. 18-year-old Landon Lucas was flying the aircraft for Paramount Air Service when he began to have engine trouble near Steel Pier in Atlantic City. He released the banner into the ocean...

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Police released new surveillance footage of a Bucks County woman's car shortly after she was last reported seen earlier this month. The image shows 26-year-old Cassandra "Casey" Johnston's car approaching I-95 on Vine Street in Center City Philadelphia. Johnston was last seen leaving a friend's house that Saturday morning, 7/10, around 5:30 a.m. near 12th and Vine. The photo was taken just...

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Hazy skies across the Delaware Valley are being blamed on smoke from wildfires in western Canada. The smoke is being carried across the continent on the jet stream and settling high the atmosphere above us causing that haze. The National Weather Service has issued an air quality alert because of the smoke. "A code orange air quality alert means that air pollution concentrations within the...

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