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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.

3 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. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Community

Police focus on van renter in Brooklyn subway shooting probe

Chief of Detectives James Essig identified the man as 62-year-old Frank R. James and says James has addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin.

3 years ago

A parking-separated bike lane on Chestnut Street (Courtesy of OTIS)
PlanPhilly
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Philly pushes Harrisburg to pass law allowing safer bike lanes on state roads

The city wants to build more bike lanes that protect cyclists from getting “doored.” Officials say state law stands in the way on some major Philly streets.

3 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.

3 years ago

Pastor Erich Kussman speaks to a crowd outside of St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church in Trenton. Community members rallied on Palm Sunday to raise awareness about possible solutions to gun violence.
Community

‘Prophets of resistance’: Faith leaders take a stand against Trenton gun violence as dozens march through the city

Dozens of residents of various religions and congregations rallied to press local government to allocate American Rescue Plan funding toward gun violence solutions.

3 years ago

A Ukrainian serviceman walks on a destroyed Russian fighting vehicle in Bucha
Community

Missile kills at least 52 at crowded Ukrainian train station

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the horrors of people killed at close range and left on streets were worse in another town north of Kyiv.

3 years ago

This GOES-16 East GeoColor satellite image taken Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at 2:20 p.m. EDT, and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Larry in the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Service is warning that swells from Hurricane Larry will create dangerous rip current conditions
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Weather

The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than usual, researchers say

At least nine hurricanes are predicted by researchers at Colorado State University. Four of those are expected to be Category 3 or higher.

3 years ago

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, April 7, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. The U.N. General Assembly scheduled a vote Thursday on a resolution to suspend Russia from the world organization's leading human rights body over allegations that Russian soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around Ukraine's capital. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Politics & Policy

U.N. assembly suspends Russia from top human rights body

Russia is the second country to have its membership rights stripped at the Human Rights Council which was established in 2006.

3 years ago

Bucha is seen from above, with extensive damage and bodies of civilians killed wrapped in plastic bags
Community

Ukraine appeals for weapons as fight looms on eastern front

Ukrainian authorities are gathering evidence of alleged Russian atrocities amid signs Moscow’s troops killed people indiscriminately before retreating from Bucha.

3 years ago

Police officers walk in the area of a shooting in Philadelphia
Courts & Law

SEPTA police officer, 2 women shot by man in Frankford shootout

Officers say they found the gunman dead from a gunshot wound that they determined was self-inflicted.

3 years ago

A resident looks for belongings in an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian force
Politics & Policy

U.S. hits Russia with ‘war crimes’ sanctions, Europe following

Making it personal, the U.S. sanctions singled out Putin's family, targeting his two adult daughters in addition to blocking two key Russian banks.

3 years ago

A man carries a coffin next to plastic bags with corpses of civilians
Politics & Policy

Ukrainians pore over grisly aftermath of atrocities

In ruined towns around Ukraine’s capital that Russian troops recently left, investigators collected evidence documenting what appeared to be widespread killings of civilians.

3 years ago

Philadelphia’s Greyhound bus depot at 10th and Filbert streets
Urban Planning

NJ Transit says Greyhound ignored their concerns about new terminal reconfiguration

The bus company said it worked with Philadelphia officials in reconfiguring their terminal. But NJ Transit says it was ignored when it raised safety concerns.

3 years ago

Investigators search for evidence in the area of a mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif. April 3, 2022.
Community

Arrest made in connection with Sacramento mass shooting

Sacramento police have announced an arrest connected with the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others in the heart of California’s capital city.

3 years ago

Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha
Community

Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets

European leaders and the United Nations human rights chief condemned the bloodshed, some of them also branding it genocide.

3 years ago

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