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Crime

Guns are pictured on a table
Courts & Law

11 members of drug and weapons ring are indicted in Camden

Acting N.J. Attorney General Andrew Bruck says state police, with the FBI and ATF, seized two assault rifles and 18 handguns. Among them were eight “ghost guns.”

2 years ago

(6ABC)
Community
6ABC

Philly violence: 7 shot in separate shootings, leaving 4 dead since late Friday night

Since just before midnight Saturday police say 7 people have been shot in separate shootings, leaving four dead.

2 years ago

Party tents and decorations are askew in front of a Fairfield Twp. home
Courts & Law
6abc

Man charged with 2 murders after mass shooting at New Jersey house party

Zedekiah Holmes, 21, was charged with the murders of 25-year-old Asia Hester and 30-year-old Kevin Elliott.

2 years ago

New Jersey Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck with several law enforcement officials announcing the results of a gun buyback that took place in three counties. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Courts & Law

N.J. gun buybacks yield more than 900 weapons, mostly handguns

Calling it “incredibly successful,” N.J. Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced that another gun buyback event will take place in October.

2 years ago

SEPTA headquarters (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

U.S. Attorney charges 9 in SEPTA corruption investigation

The scheme allegedly involved a string of the transit agency’s facility managers who colluded with outside vendors to fabricate fraudulent supply and repair invoices.

2 years ago

The affidavit from the FBI in support of an arrest warrant for Scott Kevin Fairlamb is photographed on Aug. 6, 2021. The New Jersey gym owner has become the first person to plead guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors say Fairlamb was one of the very first rioters to breach the Capitol. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Courts & Law

N.J. man among first Capitol rioters to plead guilty to assaulting police

The pleas come less than two weeks after a group of police officers testified at a congressional hearing about their harrowing confrontations with the mob of insurrectionists.

2 years ago

A new park and playground at 11th and Venango Street
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

North Philly playground remodeled, renamed to honor family killed in hit-and-run

Williams Reed Moore Memorial Park in North Philly has been remodeled in memory of the mother and three children who died in a 2014 crash.

2 years ago

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A bus leaves the Midvale depot in Nicetown
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA turns to YouTube to solve crimes

The department launched a YouTube channel where they will release surveillance video hoping that the public will identify people suspected of committing crimes on the system.

2 years ago

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference
Politics & Policy

Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, AG probe finds

The nearly five-month investigation, conducted by two outside lawyers who spoke to 179 people, found that the Cuomo administration was a “hostile work environment."

2 years ago

Fentanyl testing strips (JHU BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH/BLOOMBERG AMERICAN HEALTH INITIATIVE)
Health

Kenney: No more arrests for possession of fentanyl test strips

The strips allow people to test other drugs for the presence of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has played a major part in driving the country’s rising overdose death toll.

2 years ago

Rochelle Bilal speaks at a podium.
Courts & Law

Philly Sheriff’s Office nabs dozens of violent fugitives during mass sweep

“Operation Priority Takedown” was initiated amid a historic surge in gun violence in Philadelphia.

2 years ago

Philadelphia 3rd District Councilmember Jamie Gauthier speaks from a podium at a press conference, with elected officials behind her
Radio Times
Community

Gun violence and community trauma in the Covid-19 pandemic

Philadelphia has been in a gun violence crisis for a long time, but the number of shootings in the city since the beginning of the pandemic is staggeringly high.

Air Date: July 29, 2021 10:00 am

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A car is pictured behind crime scene tape
Courts & Law
6abc

Hit-and-run driver who ran over woman twice in Center City arrested in Montco: Police

Police say the victim, who had just left work at a Center City restaurant, later died of her injuries.

2 years ago

A worker replaces a main electrical service line on a home
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

How repairing homes reduced crime in Philly neighborhoods

New research published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that repairing even one home can reduce crime by 21.9% on the block.

2 years ago

Prosecutor Dan Goldberg points to defendant Nathaniel Rowland's car circling the block as Samantha Josephson waits for an Uber while delivering closing arguments during Rowland's trial, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Richland County Circuit Court in Columbia, S.C. Rowland was convicted Tuesday for the 2019 abduction and murder of the 21-year-old college student, who mistook his car for her Uber ride. (Tracy Glantz/The State via AP, Pool)
Courts & Law

Man convicted of killing N.J. woman who mistook his car for Uber

A South Carolina man was convicted Tuesday of the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year-old college student from Robbinsville, New Jersey.

2 years ago

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