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Philadelphia police searching for suspect who stole antique brass railing outside City Hall

Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help in identifying a City Hall theft suspect.

3 years ago

A police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. (Martin Cleaver/AP)
NPR
Community

The U.S. has taken custody of the alleged bomb maker in the 1988 Lockerbie attack

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people, including 190 Americans, and launched a decades-long international manhunt for the attackers.

3 years ago

File photo: Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A federal judge is questioning Donald Trump's efforts to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Judge Tanya Chutkan was skeptical Thursday, Nov. 4, of attorneys for the former president who asked her to block the handover of documents to a House committee
Courts & Law

Jan. 6 committee to issue criminal referrals, chairman says

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will make criminal referrals to the Justice Department as it wraps up its probe.

3 years ago

Neil Patel hired Pa. State Agents to patrol his KARCO gas station in Philadelphia. (6abc)
Community

Philadelphia gas station owner hires armed agents to patrol property

Neil Patel says the crime targeting customers and his store and employees is rampant.

3 years ago

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6abc

Deadly house fire in Darby Township, Delaware County now being investigated as suspicious

The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but officials said Monday the incident appears suspicious.

3 years ago

Posters say missing on them and have photos of people.
NPR
Community

Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

The database tool estimates that younger, white women will get increasingly more news coverage than other racial groups — such as Black, Latino and Indigenous people.

3 years ago

Information wanted signs are pictured for the ''Boy in the Box'' cold case.
Courts & Law
6abc

Major break in Philadelphia’s Boy in the Box’ cold case

The body of the young boy was found in a box on the side of Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase back in 1957.

3 years ago

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Community

A new Philly coalition has joined the fight against gun violence

The newly formed Civic Coalition to Save Lives says it will build a violence intervention strategy based on what’s worked in other cities.

3 years ago

A scale is seen as a symbol of law and justice
Courts & Law

‘Biggest cocaine trafficker in Delaware’ sentenced to 45 years in prison

Omar Morales Colon, along with his wife, Shakira Martinez, have both been convicted on drug and money laundering charges.

3 years ago

Board member Jessica Whitfield serves Thanksgiving dishes at the POMC pre-Thanksgiving dinner. (Sam Searles/WHYY)
Community

‘I’m not by myself’: Philadelphia’s Parents of Murdered Children chapter gathers for pre-Thanksgiving dinner

People who have lost family members and other loved ones to violence have found a new kind of family in the Central Philadelphia chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.

3 years ago

A person holds a microphone and gestures. Stage curtains are visible in the background.
Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist
Community

Changing the beat: Philly rappers take the violence out of drill music

Drill music, a subgenre of hip hop, has come under fire for graphic depictions of violence and criminal activity. Some Philadelphia artists are working to change the genre its

3 years ago

Donald Bender, left, a former accountant for Donald Trump, arrives at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, in New York. Prosecutors in the Trump Organization's criminal tax fraud trial rested their case Monday earlier than expected, pinning hopes for convicting Donald Trump's company largely on the word of two top executives who cut deals before testifying they schemed to avoid taxes on company-paid perks. (AP Photo/Michael Sisak)
Courts & Law

Accountant testifies Trump claimed decade of huge tax losses

Donald Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010, his longtime accountant testified.

3 years ago

File photo: The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, on Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court paves the way for release of Trump’s tax returns to a House panel

The decision likely means that the returns will be released to the Committee immediately, ending a multi-year legal battle.

3 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists gather outside the Capitol
Courts & Law

A Delaware man ended his Tinder date early to Uber to the Jan. 6 insurrection. Now he’s going to prison

Jeffrey Schaefer was in Virginia, watching TV, when he saw the riot at the Capitol. He rushed to the scene and joined the insurrectionists through a broken window.

3 years ago

Rioters push a police barricade at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Courts & Law

Pa. woman convicted of storming Pelosi’s office in Jan. 6 attack

A Pennsylvania woman linked to the far-right “Groyper” extremist movement was convicted Monday of several federal charges.

3 years ago

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