Philadelphia Councilmember At-Large Helen Gym was detained along with members of the interfaith group POWER while protesting public school funding at the Pennsylvania State Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, 6/23. Over a dozen people, including Gym, went inside the capitol building around 1 p.m. to call for more funding for public schools. The General Assembly has to vote on the 2021-22...

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One of two Delaware County brothers has been sentenced in connection to a 2018 arson fire in Old City that destroyed several businesses and residences. In February, Imad and Bahaa Dawara pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and conspiracy to defraud the United States. 40-year-old Imad was sentenced to nine years in prison on Tuesday, 6/22. 32-year-old Bahaa will be sentenced on...

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Authorities in Bucks County are searching for a retail thief caught on surveillance video stealing from the self-checkout line at an area Lowe's. It happened on Saturday, 6/19, at the hardware store on the 3400 block of Horizon Boulevard in Trevose. Bensalem Police say that the suspect switched the barcode on a $400 Dyson vacuum cleaner for a much cheaper item. He then went to the...

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Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a missing Chester County woman and her two children and are asking the public's help. 30-year-old Shannon Nicole Lake left her home in New London Township over a week ago with her boyfriend, Daniel Patrick Connors, and her children, a 2-year-old daughter and a 6-month-old son. They were last seen in the Kensington section of Philadelphia on June...

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A waitress was abducted and assaulted after trying to stop a group of diners from running out on a $70 bill from a Gloucester County, NJ, restaurant. It happened around 11:15 p.m. Saturday, 6/19, at the Nifty Fifty's in Turnersville. Surveillance footage shows the group of five dine-and-dashers leave the restaurant and get into a white Dodge Durango without paying for their meal. The...

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Philadelphia Police are searching for a dirt bike rider in the deadly shooting of a man in West Philadelphia on Thursday evening, 6/17. They have released a surveillance photo of the suspect. It happened around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of 52nd Street and Girard Avenue. Several dirt bike riders were following a Chevy Impala. The 37-year-old victim had pulled over to let a passenger out...

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Running a music venue is never an easy task, and the past 15-months has pushed many in the business to the brink and beyond. Theaters and venues were the first to close and will be the last to fully reopen. Unlike other shuttered businesses, they also had little means to generate any revenue while shuttered. There was no work from home, curbside pickup, drinks-to-go, or outside seating for the...

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A suspected serial killer, who is also charged in the murder of a Philadelphia Dunkin' Donuts manager, is now charged in the murder of his mother. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner approved the additional murder charges against 39-year-old Keith Gibson on Wednesday, 6/16. Gibson allegedly shot and killed his mother, Christine Gibson, at her work on February 8. He had recently be...

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A New Jersey man admitted in court that he faked his own disappearance to avoid being prosecuted on bank fraud charges. 51-year-old Andrew Biddle of Egg Harbor Township pled guilty on Wednesday, 6/16, to the bank fraud charges and to causing the Coast Guard to render unnecessary aid. He faces up to 36 years when he is sentenced on October 18.

The bank fraud charge was filed...

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Philadelphia Police are investigating after at least 11 people were injured in a crash involving a SEPTA bus and other vehicles in West Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, 6/17. It happened around 4:15 p.m. at S. 57th Street and Larchwood Avenue in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. The crash involved a Route G SEPTA bus and 4 other cars. Eight people on the bus were injured and 3 in the other...

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