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| 3-year-old NJ Boy Found Dead; Teen Sentenced For Temple Hit-and-Run; E-Cig Explodes/Springfield HS |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/13/15 9:02 pm | updated: 10/13/15 9:07 pm |
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| A 3-year-old Camden County boy was found dead a few hours after being reported missing this morning in the Westmont section of Haddon Township. The boy was reported missing from the 100 block of Cooper Street around 6 a.m. by a family member. His body was discovered by K-9 units around 9 a.m. a few blocks from home in wooded area on South Park Drive near the Cooper River. He has been identified as Brendan Link Creato. Authorities used reverse 911 to call area residents and notify them of... Read More |
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| Albright Football Player Stabbed; Home Invasion Shooting; Playboy - No More Full Nudity |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/13/15 10:59 am | updated: 10/13/15 10:59 am |
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| A Pennsylvania college football player was charged with stabbing his teammate with a corkscrew during a fight at a dormitory. Police said Albright College freshman Marquis Stewart, of Bethlehem, was arrested after the stabbing early Sunday. The 18-year-old was jailed on attempted homicide, aggravated assault and other charges. The victim was another freshman football player, 18-year-old Dhameer Madison (pictured), of New Castle, Delaware. He was taken to a hospital, where he was last listed... Read More |
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| PGN Publisher Memoir, Kenney Bailey Mayoral Debate, Wounded Vets Parking |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/13/15 8:56 am | updated: 10/13/15 8:56 am |
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The publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, has just published his memoir, titled "And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality." Mark Segal has been a gay activist from the age of 18. Now, 46 years later, he’s chronicled that journey in his new book. He says it started after the raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969. One of his most recent accomplishments was the opening of the John C. Anderson Apartments for gay seniors.
Tuesday marks three weeks until the... Read More |
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| Arrest in Murder of Trans Woman; Lucy the Elephant Rejects PETA Donation; Man Shoots Horse and Buggy |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/12/15 10:24 pm | updated: 10/12/15 10:24 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police have made an arrest today in the robbery and murder of a transgender woman last week in the Hunting Park neighborhood of North Philadelphia. 24-year-old Pedro Redding of Hunting Park has been charged with murder, robbery, and related offenses. Police say that 22-year-old Keisha Jenkins was targeted because she was a prostitute and carried plenty of cash. It happened early in the morning last Tuesday near 13th and Wingohocking Streets. Redding is cooperating with... Read More |
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| Princeton Prof Wins Nobel; Brother Accused in Murder Found; Towne House in Media to Close |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/12/15 12:04 pm | updated: 10/12/15 12:04 pm |
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| Princeton University's Angus Deaton has won the Nobel prize in economics for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare." Sixty nine year old Deaton was born in Edinburgh but now works at Princeton in New Jersey and has both U.S. and British citizenship. Deaton's work revolves around three central questions: How do consumers distribute their spending; how much income is spent and saved; and how do we best measure and analyze welfare and poverty? Deaton describes himself as "someone... Read More |
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| Southwest Airlines Delays, Utley Suspended For Illegal Slide, Amtrak Pet Plans |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/12/15 8:46 am | updated: 10/12/15 8:46 am |
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| Southwest Airlines said hundreds of flights have been delayed by technical issues and warned passengers flying Monday to arrive two hours early and print boarding passes before coming to the airport. The Dallas-based company said it was using back-up systems around the country to check-in travelers lacking printed or mobile boarding passes but technology problems that began Sunday morning were continuing. Southwest said about 450 of the 3,600 flights scheduled for the day had been delayed. ... Read More |
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| Man Dead After Lawnmower Fire; Dead Body Found in Donation Box; Two Teens Stabbed in South Philly |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/12/15 1:54 am | updated: 10/12/15 1:54 am |
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A man died Sunday afternoon in Burlington County, New Jersey after the lawn mower he was riding caught fire. It happened around 2:30 p.m. on the 2220 block of Saylors Road in Jobstown, Springfield Township. The mower somehow caught fire while the 79-year-old Roger Lippincott was riding it. He was killed by flames and smoke trying to put it out. Police are investigating the cause of the fire. Lippincott, retired, was a longtime member of the Springfield Township Fire Company.
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| Man Arraigned on 31-year-old Murder; Autistic Teen Found Safe; SW Philly Biz Closes After 2 Attacks |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/11/15 2:08 am | updated: 10/11/15 2:12 am |
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| A 55-year-old man from Florida was arraigned on Saturday in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Bensalem girl from 31 years ago. George Shaw Jr. was charged with homicide, rape, rape of an unconscious victim, and possession of an instrument of crime for the August 1984 Bucks County crime against Barbara Rowan. Rowan went missing at that time and her body was not discovered until weeks later. She babysat Shaw's 3-year-old daughter. Authorities say that Shaw was high on methamphetamine... Read More |
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| Philly Jazz Musician Arrested Child Sex Act; Lincoln High Locked Down; Beating Outside NE Restaurant |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/09/15 9:25 pm | updated: 10/09/15 9:25 pm |
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| A well-known Philadelphia jazz musician has been arrested for attempting to meet an underage boy he met online for sex. 69-year-old Charles Cohen is charged with Criminal Attempt of Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse with a Child and Unlawful Contact with a Minor among other charges. The Montgomery County District Attorney's office announced the charges today. They said that Cohen communicated online with someone that he thought was a 14-year-old boy but was really an undercover... Read More |
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| NBC10 Strike; Christie Demands Margate Land for Dune Protection; Satullo to Committee of Seventy |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/09/15 1:39 pm | updated: 10/09/15 1:39 pm |
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The strike by 65 NBC10 camera operators and broadcast technicians is getting tense. Philadelphia's #2 local news station posted on job sites to hire replacement workers. Meanwhile, IBEW Local 98 has targeted Comcast, which owns NBC10 through its NBCUniversal subsidiary, as a strike tactic. The union has picketed the Comcast Center and posted an inflatable rat outside its doors.
New Jersey Governor Christie called Margate "selfish" for refusing to give up land needed for the... Read More |
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