It has been one year since Dulce Maria Alavez disappeared from Bridgeton City Park. It happened on September 16, 2019. The 5-year-old was playing with her younger brother on a playground while her mother, Noema Alavez Perez, sat a short distance away in the car when she vanished. Authorities and neighbors searched the 1,000 acre park for weeks. Some witnesses say they saw her taken by a...

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Police in Darby Township, Delaware County have located the vehicle and identified three suspects in an attempted child abduction from Tuesday, 9/15. It happened around 3:45 p.m. near Tribbett Avenue and Hermesprota Drive at Hermesprota Park. The vehicle was described as a white GMC Savana van with black spray paint on the back and red spray paint on the passenger side. The driver got out...

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September 12/13 - Playlist - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - psych psnack some personal faves Pt 2

1) "Love Is All Around" by Troggs
2) "Follow" by Richie Havens
3) "Butterfly" by Hollies
4) "Charlie and Fred" by Hollies
5) "When I‘m Dead and Gone" by McGuinness Flint
6) "I'm a Believer" by Robert Wyatt
7) "Everybody's Got Something to Hide...

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September 12/13 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - psychedelic psnack some personal faves Pt 1

1) "Looking for a Friend" by David Blue
2) "Questions 67 & 68" by Chicago Transit Authority
3) "One Toke Over the Line" by Brewer & Shipley
4) "Witchi-Tai-To" by Brewer & Shipley
5) "Ride with me Baby" by Mars Bonfire
6) "Born to Be Wild"...

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President Donald Trump was in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, 9/15, to participate in a town hall event sponsored by ABC News. It is being held at the National Constitution Center in Old City. You can expect road closures and SEPTA service outages in that area. There are also a number of planned demonstrations including supporters and protesters. George Stephanopoulos is anchoring the...

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A SEPTA Police Officer and a suspect were caught on cell phone camera engaging in a fist fight at the Allegheny station of the Market-Frankford El in Kensington on Monday morning, 9/14. The suspect was caught allegedly 'fare selling.' He was standing next to a turnstile and charging people to swipe them through the gate. He may have had a stolen, lost, or defective SEPTA Key card. The...

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A federal judge has ruled that many of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's administration's coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were unconstitutional. Those restrictions include the stay-at-home orders, closure of 'non-essential' businesses, and the limitations of indoor/outdoor gathering size. The first two have been eased since the spring, however, 25 indoor/250 outdoor limits on...

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney 'respectfully declined' an invitation to brunch and have conversation with protestors at the encampment along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Monday morning, 9/14. Last week, the city's 'third and final' notice of eviction deadline came and passed without much movement on either side. Protestors invited Mayor Kenney to come to the camps to talk. The...

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A man was shot and killed by police in Lancaster, PA, on Sunday afternoon, 9/13, while chasing after the officer with a knife. The Lancaster County District Attorney's office has released police body camera footage of the incident (see below). 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz was pronounced dead at the scene. It happened around 4:15 p.m. on the 300 block of Laurel Street. Police responded to a...

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The Philadelphia Music and Arts Festival (PHL Music Fest) is happening, virtually, next week on Thursday and Friday, September 24-25. Now in it's fourth year, the lineup is by design all Philly artists/bands and includes Japanese Breakfast, Langhorne Slim, Mt. Joy, The Districts, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arnetta Johnson & Sunny, Zeek Burse, and Arthur Thomas and the Funkitorium. This year's show...

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