Crime
Philly City Council passes bill mandating curfew for some Kensington businesses
City leaders hope that shutting stores down early could reduce crime and drug use in Kensington. Some businesses are skeptical the curfew would work.
11 months ago
Listen 1:15Liquid Death Founder Mike Cessario, Fixing Philadelphia’s Littering Problem
You’ve probably seen Liquid Death at parties, bars, and grocery stores. Yes, the tall-boy aluminum cans with heavy metal lettering ...
Air Date: March 21, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 50:01Scammers and schemers beware: Philly’s lawyers have you in their sights
A proposed consumer protection law would let city attorneys sue predatory companies.
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Human skull, other skeletal remains found in a water retention basin in Montgomery Co.
Police were contacted just before noon Tuesday by a surveyor doing work near a water retention basin near the intersection of Welsh Road and Grist Mill Drive by Orvilla Road.
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Shelter-in-place lifted for Newtown Twp., second such police incident in as many days in Bucks Co.
According to police, they responded to a domestic incident Sunday morning in the Headley Trace development on Newtown-Yardley Road.
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Jaromir Jagr bobbleheads stolen en route to Pittsburgh. Giveaway postponed
The team says it is “shocked” by the theft and is working with state and federal authorities in hopes of recovering the items.
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Two 18-year-olds charged in mass shooting at SEPTA bus stop
Two people have been arrested and charged in last week’s mass shooting that hurt eight Northeast High School students at a SEPTA bus stop.
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Listen 1:11Sen. Bob Menendez enters not guilty plea to latest criminal indictment
Menendez and his wife Nadine entered the pleas on Monday to a rewritten indictment containing new charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.
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The Pa. legislature created a special prosecutor to go after crimes committed in the transit system, and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker promised to beef up police patrols.
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New York will send National Guard to subways after a string of violent crimes
The deployment of the National Guard would bolster an enhanced presence of NYPD officers in the subway system
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From ‘SNL’ to Philly? City considers asking youth to help fight crime via social media
The goal is to use young people to do what they do all the time: Surf the web and review social media posts to identify potential crimes before they happen.
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Listen 1:07Man fatally shot aboard Philadelphia bus in 3rd fatal bus-related shooting in 3 days
Tuesday's shooting marked the third time in three days that someone was killed while riding, entering or leaving a SEPTA bus.
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The beatings and deprivation were captured on video cameras Mary and Charles Vinson put in the boys’ bedroom. Charles Vinson was sentenced to 49 years behind bars.
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Teen dead, 4 others wounded after shooting involving SEPTA bus in Philadelphia’s Ogontz neighborhood
Police said the suspect shot the victim immediately after both of them got off of the bus.
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An arrest has been made and charges filed in Pennsylvania slaying of pregnant Amish woman
Shawn C. Cranston, 52, of Corry, has been charged with criminal homicide, criminal homicide of an unborn child, burglary and criminal trespass, Pennsylvania State Police said.
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