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| Free Library Block Party, Reading Terminal Market Expands, Failed Norristown Movie Studio |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/09/15 9:55 am | updated: 10/09/15 9:55 am |
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| The Free Library of Philadelphia is holding a block party Saturday in North Philadelphia and it's all about words. The goal is to close the literacy gap between lower income and higher income families. Thirty million words — that's the difference in the vocabulary of a child from higher income versus a child from an economically challenged one. The Free Library’s Words at Play Vocabulary Initiative is hoping to close the gap. Saturday the Free Library will throw a block party... Read More |
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| 2 Arrested in Lower Moreland Murder; Punkin Chunkin Canceled Again; Gender-Neutral Bathroom Bill OKd |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/08/15 10:30 pm | updated: 10/08/15 10:30 pm |
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| Two Philadelphia men have been arrested for the murder of a Lower Moreland man during a home invasion at the end of September. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman announced today that 20-year-olds Naadir Abdul-Ali and Desmond Smith were arrested last week in the shooting death of 53-year-old Kevin Brown. Brown was the father of Abdul-Ali's 18-year-old former girlfriend. According to the DA, she broke up with him as he became "possessive, obsessive, violent, and his conduct... Read More |
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| Another Mom Arrested for Heroin Injection; Orchestra Negotiation; Jerry Mondesire Services |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/08/15 8:48 am | updated: 10/08/15 8:48 am |
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| A Montgomery County mother has pleaded guilty to injecting her 14-year-old daughter and her daughter's boyfriend with heroin. 36 year old Patricia Davenport of Harleysville entered a guilty plea last week and her trial begins today. Another mom was arrested for a similar crime in Chester County last week. Prosecutors there filed charges in a nearly identical case against Jessica Lynn Riffey of Honeybrook who was arrested for supplying heroin to her 14-year-old daughter and her daughter's... Read More |
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| Southwest Philly 3 Alarm Fire, SRC City Council Deal, Chaput Attends Synod |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/08/15 8:42 am | updated: 10/08/15 8:42 am |
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Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze Wednesday night at a vacant warehouse in Southwest Philadelphia. The fire was reported at about 8:30 p.m. near 70th Street and Cobbs Creek Parkway. Fire officials and neighbors say the building at one point was a paper warehouse. No injuries have been reported and there is no word on a cause.
The School Reform Commission has signed a deal promising to share more financial information with City Council. The agreement doesn’t... Read More |
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| NJ Nurse Reused Syringes on Dozens; Murder of Transgender F a Robbery; SS United States Scrap? |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/07/15 11:04 pm | updated: 10/07/15 11:04 pm |
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| Over 60 people at a Mercer County, New Jersey company received a medical alert after it was a learned that a nurse had reused the same syringe when administering flu shots to employees. 67 employees were given the shots at the Otsuka Pharmaceutical offices on the 500 block of Carnegie Center in West Windsor, NJ. The nurse changed needles between patients but did not change the syringe which is still "failing to follow proper medical procedures and safeguards." The New Jersey Department... Read More |
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| Rocket Launch and Colored Clouds Visible in Philadelphia, NJ, and DE area tonight; Watch Live Video |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/07/15 9:33 pm | updated: 10/07/15 9:34 pm |
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NASA will be launching a suborbital rocket tonight from it's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The launch is scheduled for 7 p.m. EDT with a two hour launch window to 9 pm. The rocket launch should be visible from many points across the U.S. East Coast including right here in the Philadelphia, NJ, and DE area.
NASA is testing a number of technologies including a Black Brant sounding rocket motor and ejection technologies for suborbital payloads. In addition to... Read More |
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| Wildwood Home Not Missed By Some; Wolf Budget Vote; NASA Launch Tonight |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/07/15 12:23 pm | updated: 10/07/15 12:23 pm |
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| The owner of the Wildwood home that washed into the bay is paying to have the home and debris removed from the water. Meanwhile some neighbors are saying good riddance to the Grassy Sound home swept off its pilings Saturday. They say it was a structurally unsound nuisance and the home was doomed to wind up in the bay. Others say it's been falling apart for five years and blame local officials for ignoring repeated complaints. The home's owner, Stuart Tait, said over the weekend that he had... Read More |
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| Hunting Park Transgender Murder, PA Tax Proposal Vote, NASA Rocket Launch |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/07/15 8:50 am | updated: 10/07/15 8:50 am |
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Police are investigating the death of a transgender woman in Philadelphia's Hunting Park neighborhood, who they say was assaulted by a group of males and shot. Police are being very careful not to call this a hate crime at this time and are investigating the murder of 22-year-old Kiesha Jenkins. Police received reports of a shooting around 2:30 a.m. When police arrived, they found Jenkins shot twice in the back.
With Pennsylvania in its 99th day without a budget, the state... Read More |
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| Community College of Philadelphia Lockdown/Arrest; Transgender Attack/Murder; Assault After Accident |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/06/15 10:17 pm | updated: 10/06/15 10:17 pm |
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| The Community College of Philadelphia was put on lockdown and students told to shelter in place around 9:30 a.m. as Philadelphia Police searched for a man seen with a gun near campus at 17th and Spring Garden Streets. Two men were having an argument outside the Winnet Student Life Building when one pulled out a gun and then fled into a nearby building. About two hours later, authorities found and caught the 17-year-old suspect hiding in the business school building, but he no longer had... Read More |
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| NJ Junior Miss Dead; Police Injured in Crash in SW Philly; Shore Beach Damage |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 10/06/15 11:05 am | updated: 10/06/15 11:05 am |
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A former America's Junior Miss from New Jersey died after being found unconscious in a doorway in New York. Kiersten Cerveny, who grew up in Gloucester County, was found unconscious Sunday in the doorway of a New York City apartment building. She was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The 38 year old mother of three was a dermatologist and lived on Long Island. Toxicology and autopsy reports are pending.
Two Philadelphia Police officer were injured... Read More |
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