A Germantown woman remains blinded after being attacked with acid outside of her home last week. It happened around 6:15 a.m. October 6 on the 5100 block of Newhall Street. 61-year-old Helen Jones was on the sidewalk outside her home walking to her car parked out front to go to her job as a phlebotomist. She was approached by a man who asked, "Hey, are you good?" As Jones looked up to...
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Philadelphia Police say that a 10-year-old boy that went missing after school on Wednesday, 10/14, has been found safe. Jack Atkins never came home after leaving Immaculate Heart of Mary School in the Andorra section of Northwest Philadelphia. His bookbag was found at the intersection of Vaux and Bowman Streets in the city’s East Falls section.
A boil water...
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The Lancaster County District Attorney's Office released its findings on Wednesday, 10/14, after reviewing the deadly shooting last month involving a Lancaster city police officer. District Attorney Heather Adams says that they found that the shooting was justified. "There is no question, no question, that the officer was justified in the use of deadly force," she said. "The footage shows...
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The City of Philadelphia announced on Tuesday, 10/13, that they have reached an agreement with representatives from the homeless protest encampment on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (Camp JTD). The residents of the camp will voluntarily vacate the area by the end of this week. The city and Philadelphia Housing Authority will gradually transfer 50 vacant properties into a community land...
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Pennsylvania's 2nd Lady Gisele Barreto Fetterman shared video to Twitter of an incident outside of a Pittsburgh-area supermarket on Sunday in which she was verbally assaulted by a women. Fetterman says that the woman recognized her as the 2nd Lady while she was in the store and began to curse at her and say racially bigoted remarks. She followed her all the way out and to her car calling...
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The University of Delaware has suspended 19 student-athletes after they violated university coronavirus COVID-19 guidelines. The suspensions of the swimming and diving student-athletes range from 6 weeks to the rest of the semester. They cannot participate in any athletic related activities. The infractions happened because the students attended a large off-campus party on September 26....
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The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has teamed up with YouTube Music to present the virtual Save Our Stages Festival #SOSFEST October 16-18. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has forced independent music venues across the nation to close their doors for months. NIVA says that the "90% of independent music venues are on the verge of closing forever" if the pandemic closures continue....
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Philadelphia Police have released surveillance video of a suspect wanted in the burglary of a warehouse used to store City of Philadelphia election equipment. Police are looking for the public's help in identifying the man. It happened around 1 p.m. Sunday, 9/27, at the ES_S warehouse on the 3500 block of Scotts Lane in East Falls. The man stole a laptop, 8 USB drives, Bluetooth speakers,...
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A former Philadelphia police officer has been indicted by a grand jury in the death of an unarmed Black man in 2017. 33-year-old Eric Ruch Jr. is charged with Murder of the First Degree, Murder of the Third Degree, Voluntary Manslaughter, and Possession of an Instrument of Crime in the death of 25-year-old Dennis Plowden. It happened around 8:30 p.m. on December 27, 2017, at 19th and Nedro...
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Philadelphia Police shot and killed a suspect early Thursday morning, 10/8, after the man went on a rampage shooting in a church, stealing a car, carjacking another, shooting at another, killing a woman, and firing at police. "What we had this morning is the case of a deranged individual who was on a rampage over the period of about ten minutes," said Philadelphia Police Sergeant Eric...
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA | October 15, 2020 12:33 am
