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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Crime

Philadelphia Police Department's 39th District building. (Google maps)
Community
6abc

Man shot by Philadelphia police officer inside 39th District building

The gunfire happened just after 9 a.m. inside the building in Hunting Park.

4 years ago

The Original Tony Luke's in South Philly.
Courts & Law

Owners of The Original Tony Luke’s cheesesteak shop plead guilty to tax fraud

Prosecutors say the cheesesteak shop owners bilked the IRS out of between $550,000 and $1.5 million.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, left, accompanied by former President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally in Greensburg, Pa., Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Radio Times

The Regional Roundup: May 9, 2022

PA senate and gubernatorial candidate reactions to the SCOTUS abortion draft leak; Philadelphia police officer faces murder charges; the rise in gardening during the pandemic

Air Date: May 9, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
A Philadelphia police officer walks past the scene of a shooting in LOVE Park. A 29-year-old man was killed. A security guard for Christmas Village has been charged
Community

Everyone’s trying to solve Philly’s gun violence crisis. Is more collaboration the answer?

Four Philly nonprofits originally planned gun violence prevention events on the Saturday before Mother’s Day.

4 years ago

Listen 2:08
Cars and trucks are visible driving northbound on the New Jersey turnpike on a sunny day.
Courts & Law

New Jersey launches license plate cameras to combat soaring car theft rate

New Jersey will use $10 million in federal funds to install license plate readers along highways and on police cars in hopes of tracking down stolen vehicles.

5 years ago

Crime tape is seen in the area of a shooting in Philly
Courts & Law

As National Victims Rights Week kicks off, Philadelphia’s gun violence shows no sign of slowing down

As Philadelphia marks National Crime Victims Rights Week with a series of events, the city’s gun violence shows no signs of abating.

5 years ago

(6abc)
Community
6abc

Philadelphia police investigate double shooting at football field near Temple University’s campus

Police say two adults were shot while in the stands while students practiced on the field.

5 years ago

FILE - Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. Egged on by soon-to-be former President Donald Trump, a crowd of demonstrators demanded that the electoral vote counting be stopped. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Courts & Law

Man blaming Trump’s ‘orders’ for riot actions found guilty

Jurors deliberated less than three hours before their verdict, rejecting Thompson's novel defense.

5 years ago

New York City Police Department personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Multiple people were shot and injured Tuesday at a subway station in New York City during a morning rush hour attack that left wounded commuters bleeding on a train platform. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Community

Brooklyn subway suspect tipped off police to his location

The man accused in the shooting of 10 people on a Brooklyn subway has been arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense.

5 years ago

ATF officials announced two federal indictments of 14 individuals charged with trafficking about 500 firearms from the Southern states of Georgia and South Carolina to sell in Philadelphia, at a press conference on April 11, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

400 illegal guns in Philly flowed through the ‘Iron Pipeline’

ATF agents identified 400 illegally trafficked guns in Philadelphia that were bought by straw purchasers in Georgia and South Carolina.

5 years ago

ADA William Fritze talks about 3d printed firearms arrest
Courts & Law

Philly man accused of using 3D printer to make ‘ghost guns’ faces charges

The suspect is accused of buying some gun parts and creating others on a 3D printer at his Roxborough-Manayunk home to create untraceable firearms.

5 years ago

(6abc)
Community

1 officer killed, 2 others shot in Lebanon, Pa.

Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday when the gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit.

5 years ago

A Philadelphia police officer walks past the scene of a shooting in LOVE Park. A 29-year-old man was killed. A security guard for Christmas Village has been charged
Courts & Law

Philly police ‘can’t keep up’ with rising homicide rate, Outlaw says

In a bi-weekly gun violence update, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the crime rate is rising in areas targeted for crime prevention.

5 years ago

(chalabala/BigStock)

New narcotics charge for ex-Wilmington cop out on bail in sex solicitation case

Brandon Cooper was out on $75,000 bail when undercover city officers witnessed an alleged drug deal and found him with oxycodone and a police baton.

5 years ago

(6abc)
Courts & Law
6abc

Officials: Suspect turns himself in after father of 4 killed in Drexel Hill road rage shooting

The suspect's car was impounded with a bullet hole visible in the back side window.

5 years ago

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