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| Center City Collapsed Building Casualties, Germantown Rapist Charged, Murnaghan Makes Adult List |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/06/13 1:00 am | updated: 06/06/13 1:00 am |
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| Three people were killed and at least 13 people were injured following a building collapse in Center City Philadelphia Wednesday morning. At least three people, including two women, were taken to Hahnemann University Hospital. Two patients were treated and released. The third patient is listed in fair condition. Five victims were taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. A hospital spokesperson said all 5 suffered non-life threatening injuries. Five victims were taken to the Hospital... Read More |
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| Missing Mom Search Intensifies, Serial Rapist Investigation, Philly Cop Arrested |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/05/13 11:19 am | updated: 06/05/13 11:19 am |
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Missing since April, Collingdale mom Melissa Ortiz-Rodriguez is the focus of an intensifying search. She wanted a divorce from her estranged husband, Jose Rodriguez and was planning a trip to Newark to visit friends on April 19th by bus. She never arrived, never reported for work at her new job and failed to pick up her children from school four days later. Police will be canvasing the neighborhood for clues.
Philadelphia Police have a person of interest in custody in... Read More |
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| Christie Wins Party Nom, Wissahickon High School Rape, Bryant Elementary Assault |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/05/13 1:55 am | updated: 06/05/13 1:55 am |
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Republican Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono brushed aside token opposition Tuesday for their party nominations for governor. The campaigns' final days were overshadowed by the death of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Christie's decision, on primary day, to announce an October special election to fill the seat rather than have the contest coincide with the Nov. 5 general election.
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office is investigating... Read More |
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| Gray's Ferry Fire, Medicaid Protesters March, Garcia-Joanis Corruption Charges |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/04/13 8:38 pm | updated: 06/04/13 8:38 pm |
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Dark smoke from a trash fire billowed over Southwest Philadelphia late Tuesday afternoon. The fire broke out at about 4 p.m. at the junk yard along Gray's Ferry Avenue and South Hanson Street. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Grassroots groups are turning up the heat on Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett, demanding that he accept federal Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. This afternoon, protesters marched near the clothespin... Read More |
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| Germantown Rapist Video, Domonic Brown a Home Run Machine, New Jersey Primaries |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/04/13 10:00 am | updated: 06/04/13 10:00 am |
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Philadelphia Police are looking for a serial rapist they believe attacked four women in the Germantown area. The victims include a 15 year old and 17 year old girl. The rapist is armed and has been captured by surveillance video. Police are hoping you’ll look at the video posted here and help identify him.
Rapist Video
Another game, another home run for the Phillies... Read More |
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| Lautenberg Funeral Services, Supreme Court DNA Swab Division, Pennypack Creek Rescue |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/04/13 1:42 am | updated: 06/04/13 1:42 am |
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Funeral services for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg will be held Wednesday at a New York City synagogue. The 89-year-old Lautenberg, a multimillionaire businessman and the last World War II veteran remaining in the Senate, died early Monday at a New York hospital after suffering complications from viral pneumonia. The funeral is planned for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan.
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for police to take a... Read More |
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| Girard College Drops High School, Lautenberg's Seat?, Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Vineland |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/03/13 8:54 pm | updated: 06/03/13 8:54 pm |
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| Girard College has announced plans to end its residential program and drop its high school in an effort to stay financially afloat. Girard College is seeking the okay to operate as a first-through-eighth-grade day school, instead of the one-through-twelve residential school it is now. Joe Martz, the executive director of the Board of City Trusts, which oversees the school, says recession losses to the trust that subsidizes the school, and rising infrastructure costs are to blame. School... Read More |
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| Archdiocese Merges 27 Parishes, Kaboni Savage Death Sentence, Manayunk Cycling Race |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/03/13 10:27 am | updated: 06/03/13 4:05 pm |
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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced plans to merge 27 more parishes over the weekend. The announcement has many in affected Philadelphia and Delaware County parishes hoping there is a chance to save them. Many of the city parishes with declining membership were established over 100 years ago to serve the large immigrant population. (SEE THE FULL LIST BELOW)
Kaboni Savage, the convicted drug lord, is getting the death sentence today. Savage was found guilty... Read More |
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| South Street Shooting, Camden Crash Shooting, Lung Transplant Sought |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 06/03/13 1:05 am | updated: 06/03/13 1:05 am |
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| Authorities say a man was arrested after shooting into a crowd along South Street and then firing shots at police themselves, Sunday along the 600 block of South Street. Police say 42-year-old Isaac Carmichael threatened three victims during an argument in which the suspect had tried to make a pass at one of the females. When the victims asked the suspect to leave them alone, police say he became verbally abusive, grabbed one of the women and showed his gun. They say Carmichael then began... Read More |
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| Philly's The Roots gets Mural; Video of Tire Vandal Suspects; Death Penalty for Kaboni Savage |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/31/13 8:41 pm | updated: 05/31/13 8:41 pm |
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| Amir "?uestlove" Thompson, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, and the rest of Philadelphia's own The Roots were on hand this morning at the World Communications Charter School at 512 S. Broad Street as the latest installment of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program was dedicated to the band. The Roots were first 'born' over 20 years ago in South Philly between Thompson and Tariq who both attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Since then they've travelled the... Read More |
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