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| Laptop Explosion, Gov Corbett Refuses to Sign Budget, SEPTA Tax Relief |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/01/14 10:32 am | updated: 07/01/14 10:32 am |
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A woman in Langhorne is recovering from burns she sustained when her laptop exploded. Loretta Luff (pictured) of Langhorne Manor was checking email while she and her disabled husband were watching the Phillies game. She says her Dell Inspirion 1501 battery pack blew up sending battery acid and burning parts onto her shirt and all around her. She was treated for first and second degree burns after putting out the fires around her.
Governor Tom Corbett withheld his signature... Read More |
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| Cigarrette Tax, Nyashia Grant-Miller Missing, Philadelphia SRC Meeting |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 07/01/14 1:17 am | updated: 07/01/14 1:17 am |
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The Republican-controlled state Senate is poised to approve legislation allowing Philadelphia to help fund its public schools with a cigarette tax increase. Philadelphia officials say that imposing a $2 per-pack city excise tax on cigarette sales will provide $83 million for its schools. Without the money, they say the schools won’t be fit to open in the fall.
Police are asking for the public's help in finding a young Southwest Philadelphia girl who’s been missing... Read More |
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| Coast Guard Calls Off Search in OC; Tossed Cigarette Lights Up Car; Rita's Gate Investigation |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/30/14 9:27 pm | updated: 06/30/14 9:27 pm |
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| The US Coast Guard has suspended it's search for a 14-year-old boy who went missing while swimming in the water off Ocean City, NJ. They called off the search at 4:30 Monday afternoon. They had been searching a 50 square mile area. Ocean City Fire and Beach Patrol will continue their search on Tuesday morning. The Philadelphia teen had been with a group of friends on a jetty near 9th street when he was swept out into the water by a rip current. Attempts to rescue him only caught others... Read More |
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| Missing Boy in Ocean City Rip Current, Upper Darby Bedroom Intruder, Nickelodean Honors Yardley Girl |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/30/14 12:54 pm | updated: 06/30/14 12:54 pm |
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A 14 year old boy was swept away from the beach by rip currents in Ocean City on Sunday. The boy was reported missing near 9th Street and the U.S. Coast Guard was alerted. The boy was swimming with friends when all were pulled into the ocean and tossed around. The 14 year old is the only one who did not resurface.
Upper Darby police are searching for a bedroom intruder who has broken into homes of women alone in the Stonehurst section. The latest bedroom intrusion happened... Read More |
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| Parish Area Pastoral Planning, Bucks County Water Boil Advisory, East Parkside Mural |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/30/14 1:50 am | updated: 06/30/14 1:50 am |
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| Sixteen Catholic parishes held their final Sunday services. They're slated to merge with nearby churches on July 1st as part of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's plan to restructure its parishes. This is part of the process known as Parish Area Pastoral Planning that has been going on since 2010. Church officials say the mergers are needed because of factors that include a shift in the Catholic population, a high density of parishes in a small area, along with declines in Mass attendance,... Read More |
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| Girl Killed by Gate at Rita's Water Ice; Road Rage Victim ID'd; Donate Produce to Philabundance |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/29/14 4:22 am | updated: 06/29/14 4:22 am |
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| A 3-year-old girl was killed Saturday afternoon in a freak accident when a security gate fell on her outside the Rita's Water Ice in the the city's Brewerytown neighborhood. It happened around 4:30 pm at 2829 West Girard Avenue. The large gate detached from the wall, crashed to the sidewalk making a loud boom, and landed directly on the girl. The Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority were holding their annual fundraiser at the water ice place at the time. It took... Read More |
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| Truck Driver Asleep in Delaware Crash; DUI Checkpoints This Weekend; No Bail for Building Collapse |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/27/14 8:43 pm | updated: 06/27/14 8:43 pm |
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| Delaware State Police say that the driver of a UPS tractor-trailer that flipped onto it's side, blocking traffic for hours on I-95 in Delaware Friday morning, had fallen asleep at the wheel. It happened at 4:08 a.m. in the southbound lanes north of Basin Road exit (Exit 5B) as the 16-wheel truck was merging from I-295 to I-95. The truck drifted off the road, hit the guard rail, flipped onto it's side and slid to a stop blocking all lanes of the highway. A 2010 Mercedes was unable to... Read More |
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| Showboat Atlantic City Layoffs, Art Museum Renovations, Bucks Suspends HR Director |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/27/14 11:44 am | updated: 06/27/14 11:44 am |
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It appears the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City is ready to cash in its chips. Bob McDevitt, President of Unite Here Local 54 says he was notified by Showboat's parent company, Caesars Entertainment that layoff notices were going out on Friday. McDevitt, whose union represents 900 of the casino's 2,100 employees, calls the closing a criminal act on the citizens of Atlantic City.
The Art Museum steps may be getting a makeover. New development plans by renowned architect Frank... Read More |
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| McDonald's Attack Mother and Son; Miss Delaware Too Old; Neighbor Charged in Hoarder Stabbings |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/26/14 9:40 pm | updated: 06/26/14 9:40 pm |
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| Witnesses recorded and posted video of a violent attack against a mother by a McDonald's employee in Salem City, NJ on Tuesday. The video shows the mother on the ground receiving multiple punches to the face and chest. Her 2-year-old son was standing next to her, kicking the assailant in an attempt to get her to stop. Several people were standing around watching and did nothing to intervene. The suspect, wearing a red uniform, was identified as 25-year-old Latia Harris. She believed the... Read More |
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| Rittenhouse Safety Meeting, SEPTA Strike Recourse, Jersey Beaches Among the Cleanest |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/26/14 11:49 am | updated: 06/26/14 11:49 am |
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In response to the recent attack on a young woman in the Rittenhouse Square area, residents gathered at the 10th Presbyterian Church for a community meeting last night. Safety experts shared advice to walkers suggesting, "Don't walk with your head down. Make eye contact with people as you walk down the street." Philadelphia is considering expanding the SafeCam security camera program.
Regional Rail riders are looking for recourse after the one-day strike that left TrailPass... Read More |
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