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| SEPTA Cameras Catch Fare Jumpers, Eagles Pick Lane Johnson, Stillwagon Cancer Fraud |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/26/13 12:49 am | updated: 04/26/13 12:49 am |
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| SEPTA fare evaders, usually young men and women, are being put on notice; if they jump a turnstile to avoid paying the fare, SEPTA is watching. SEPTA now has 1,100 live feed cameras as part of a $50 million video and camera monitoring initiative to catch fare jumpers and keep the system safe for riders. Since the expanded surveillance system went into effect arrests are three times more for fare jumping and five times more for quality of life violations like drunkenness, harassment and... Read More |
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| Philadelphia Police Announce Safecam; Boys Point Gun at Girl (Video); Penn State Lower Enrollment |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/25/13 9:09 pm | updated: 04/25/13 9:09 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey announced the department's newest crime prevention and investigation tool this afternoon. Called "Safecam," the program will help the police department pinpoint surveillance cameras throughout the city that may prove useful in solving a crime. Ramsey is urging everyone that has an outdoor surveillance system to register it with the Safecam system. Private security systems have... Read More |
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| Lenape High Evacuated, All Clear; Abington Postal Worker Steals Cash; Parents Charged w Kid Car Gun |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/25/13 4:21 pm | updated: 04/25/13 4:21 pm |
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| Lenape High School in Medford, Burlington County, New Jersey was evacuated for several hours this morning after suspicious graffiti was discovered inside a bathroom. The graffiti was discovered at 8:45 a.m. and the school was placed on immediate lockdown. The Medford police were called to assist in the evacuation of the school, where staff and students were taken to assigned outdoor locations. Police and canines searched the building and deemed it clear at 11:45 a.m. Classes resumed on a... Read More |
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| Penn Relays Security Measures, Bomber Goes Silent, NJ Poll Says Sandy Recovery Will Take Years |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/25/13 10:52 am | updated: 04/25/13 10:52 am |
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The Penn Relays kicks off today amid tighter security after last week's events in Boston. Over 18,000 athletes from all over the country and hundreds of thousands of fans converge on Philadelphia for the three day event. Among the new security measures, spectators will not be permitted to bring backpacks or coolers inside Franklin Field.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect has stopped talking. After talking to interrogators for 16 hours Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went silent... Read More |
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| Gosnell Defense Rests; Teacher Urinates in Class; Road Rage Arrest in ChestCo; Chestnut Hill Fall |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/25/13 1:20 am | updated: 04/25/13 1:37 am |
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| The defense quickly rested in the Murder Trial of West Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell on Wednesday. Gosnell's defense attorney closed their case today after not calling a single witness, including the doctor himself, nor presenting anything new to the court. Defense attorney Jack McMahon only has his own cross examination of prosecution witnesses and his upcoming closing arguments to win acquittal for his client. Those closing arguments are scheduled to begin next week with... Read More |
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| Coast Guard Search Suspended, Chestnut Hill College Third-Story Fall, Joe Frazier Statue |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/25/13 1:35 am | updated: 04/25/13 1:35 am |
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The Coast Guard has suspended it search for 32-year-old David McAuliffe, who went missing Tuesday morning aboard a commercial tow boat off the coast of South Jersey. Crews searched more than 400 square miles, for a total of 65 hours. It was reported that Cape Hatteras had survival equipment aboard, including two survival suits and two life rafts.
An undergraduate student fell from a third-story outside stairwell on Chestnut Hill College’s campus on Wednesday afternoon.... Read More |
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| Missing Egg Harbor Township, NJ boater; Man arrested with gun at Atlantic City International Airport |
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 by: liaferrante - Wildwood Crest, NJ
started: 04/24/13 7:00 pm | updated: 04/24/13 7:00 pm |
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David McAuliffe, 32, has been missing since Tuesday. He is the lead captain of a 45-foot Sea Tow boat, the Cape Hatteras. McAuliffe left the Farley State Marina in Atlantic City on Tuesday morning and the Coast Guard received a call three hours later. They have searched vigorously near the Great Egg Harbor Inlet and kept going at the south end of Ocean City. Since today, the Coast Guard stopped the search, and are now conducting a vessel-recovery operation.
UPDATE: The... Read More |
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| Body Found May Be Missing Brown Student, Couple Killed as Child Watches, Penn Wood Resumes Classes |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/24/13 11:25 am | updated: 04/24/13 11:25 am |
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The body of a young man was pulled from the Providence River in Rhode Island yesterday. Police there have told the Boston Globe that it is "very possible" it is the missing 22 year old Brown student, Sunil Tripathi. Originally from Bryn Mawr, Tripathi went missing last month.
A man and woman were shot and killed last night in their car with their child in the back seat. The couple was shot multiple times on the 200 block of East Gurney Street in West Kensington. The incident... Read More |
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| Annenberg MLK Letter Event, Radnor Car Jacking, Schuylkill River Crash |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/24/13 8:23 am | updated: 04/24/13 8:23 am |
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Penn's Annenberg School is hosting an event tonight marking the 50th anniversary of a landmark bit of communication, Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail. One of the featured speakers is Delaware County native Jonathan Rieder, Sociology Professor at Barnard College and author of a book on the Letter. He says the Letter makes the case not only for civil rights in the South, but an ongoing battle against injustice anywhere.
In the parking lot of Micro Center in... Read More |
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| Three Charges Against Gosnell Dropped; Missing Boat New Jersey; AP Twitter Hacked, Dow Jones Reacts |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/23/13 9:03 pm | updated: 04/23/13 9:03 pm |
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| Three of the eight murder charges against Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell were thrown out by Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart today. After five weeks of prosecution testimony, Defense attorney Jack McMahon argued that there was no evidence that any of the babies were born alive, breathing and moving. Prosecutor Edward Cameron pointed to testimony of staffers who witnessed a breath, movement, and sound in each case. The judge found enough evidence in some but not all cases... Read More |
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