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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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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."

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 years ago

An oil spill cleanup sock in a small waterway leading to Chester Creek
Courts & Law

Delco DA Stollsteimer announces criminal charges in Brookhaven fuel spill

District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says a Lee Transport Systems employee making a delivery allegedly caused an environmental “catastrophe.”

4 years ago

A closeup of a Central Bucks Police vehicle.
Courts & Law

Bucks County police officer among 4 arrested in attempted child luring case in Atlantic City

Police say the men were caught after an operation was carried out by a concerned citizens group affiliated with Colorado Ped Patrol, whose members pose as underage children.

4 years ago

Philadelphia police Chief Inspector Frank Vanore (right) joins acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge James Christie to announce federal murder-for-hire and weapons charges against Darnell Jackson, 47, of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Murder-for-hire plot revealed in Philadelphia

Federal officials say they are putting all hands on deck to fight violent crime.

4 years ago

A group of people attack a man who has been knocked off his bike
Courts & Law

Second member of white Fishtown vigilante group charged with assault

Philly police have arrested Richard Goodwin for allegedly assaulting a man during a violent gathering of mostly white men in Fishtown amid last June’s protests.

4 years ago

A Wilmington police vehicle.
Courts & Law

Suspected serial killer indicted on 41 felony charges after ‘staggering crime spree’ in Philly, Delaware

Keith Gibson is accused of killing four people and injuring several others while on probation for a manslaughter conviction in Delaware.

4 years ago

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