A Philadelphia man from Ireland has been charged with multiple felonies for a head-on crash that seriously injured several people including 4 teenage girls in Bucks County on Saturday night, 3/27. 24-year-old Shane Brolly is charged with five counts of aggravated assault and aggravated assault by vehicle, all felonies, and eight misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person....

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The Montgomery County mother of a boy who shot and killed his sister earlier this month is now facing charges herself related to the incident. 31-year-old Daisy Vasquez is charged with endangering the welfare of children, possession of a firearm by a minor-responsibility of adult, hindering apprehension or prosecution and recklessly endangering another person. It happened before 8 a.m. on...

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Firefly Music Festival announced on Monday, 3/29, that it will be returning in Fall 2021. It posted the dates September 23-26, 2021 on it's website. No other information about the festival is available at this time including ticket on sale time, potential lineups, or pandemic restrictions. All of that will be available at a later date. Last year's June festival was going to feature headliners...

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The Philadelphia Democratic City Committee executive board has decided not to endorse a candidate for district attorney in the upcoming May primary. Incumbent DA Larry Krasner is facing a challenger in former city prosecutor Carlos Vega. Committee chairman Bob Brady said the party did not want to risk losing support for the other endorsed candidates on the ballot. The open race for...

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Philadelphia Police are investigating after seven people were shot and injured outside of a social club on Friday night, 3/26. It happened around 8 p.m. at the Golf and Social Club on the 1000 block of Delaware Avenue in Fishtown. It started as an altercation inside the club that spilled outside. Surveillance footage shows the gunman firing into a crowd standing out front. The victims...

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A mother of six children from Lancaster County, PA, was shot and killed during a road rage incident on I-95 in North Carolina on Thursday morning, 3/25. It happened just before noon in the southbound lanes of I-95 just north of Lumberton, Robeson County, near the South Carolina border. 47-year-old Julie Eberly of Manheim, Pennsylvania was headed on vacation with her husband Ryan Eberly. At...

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SEPTA will be hiring 60 unarmed security guards to help secure parts of the Market-Frankford Line. There has been a rise in attacks in stations along that line. Posting guards will hopefully quell some of that activity and provide a safer environment for SEPTA workers and customers. Guards will be in place in late March or early April. There will also be a new vulnerable population action...

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Opening Day for the Philadelphia Phillies is only a week away on April 1 vs the Atlanta Braves. This will be the first time that fans will be allowed back in the stands since October 2019. Current coronavirus COVID-19 restrictions limit attendance to 8,800 fans. That limit will be the same for the first 19 games and will be reevaluated for future games. There will be a few changes around...

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Clementon Park and Splash World in Camden County, New Jersey, has been sold at auction as an entire property and the new owners plan to reopen the amusement park. According to Capitol Recovery Group (CRG), which arranged the sale, the whole property sold for $2.3 million at an online auction on Wednesday, 3/24. "The buyer is Clementon Park Holdings LLC, a division of Indiana Beach...

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A former Lehigh University student has been sentenced to seven to 20 years in state prison after he admitted to poisoning his roommate with a heavy metal in an attempt to kill him. 24-year-old Yukai Yang pled guilty to the attempted murder of Juwan Royal. All other charges were dropped as part of a plea deal. Yang will be deported back to China after he serves his sentence. Yang had...

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