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| Kenney on Small Business, Tax Abatements Expire, Indego Bike Share Valet Program |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 09/02/16 1:21 am | updated: 09/02/16 1:21 am |
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Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney held an event on Thursday where he announced a major investment in programs to help the city's small business landscape. With the new investment, Kenney says the programs will now be able to provide key financing to under-served businesses across Philadelphia. Kenney expressed that he is optimistic that more business could mean less crime. The new investments are expected to create new jobs and revitalize city neighborhoods.
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| Hurricane Hermine, PA/NJ Tropical Storm Watch; 2017 NFL Draft; 1 Dead, 1 Arrested at Tanger Outlets |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 09/01/16 8:34 pm | updated: 09/01/16 8:34 pm |
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| Tropical Storm Hermine has been upgraded to a Hurricane by the National Weather Service with maximum sustained winds now exceeding 75mph. It will make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight or tomorrow morning as it continues to head northeast. Tropical Storm Watches have been issued for Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey for Labor Day Weekend. Winds and potentially flooding rains could be an issue. The track of the storm as is makes its way up the coast will... Read More |
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| Explosion at Cape Canaveral (Video); Wet Labor Day Weekend Expected; Clinton Lead in PA Shrinks |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 09/01/16 1:37 pm | updated: 09/01/16 1:37 pm |
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket apparently exploded on its Florida launch pad today during a dress rehearsal for a satellite launch, which had been scheduled for this weekend. Thick black smoke and flames could be seen billowing from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Social media users in the area reported hearing and feeling several consecutive blasts from the direction of the pad.
It looks like a wet and windy finale for the unofficial end of... Read More |
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| School Supplies Drive, Trappe Man Drowns, NFL Concussion Case |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 09/01/16 1:13 am | updated: 09/01/16 1:13 am |
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| Horror stories about lack of supplies at Philadelphia public schools have hit home among education advocates. Now, there's a citywide effort to fill the supplies gap. Todd Bernstein, founder of Global Citizen is also the organizer behind the Philadelphia School Supplies Drive in partnership with other groups. Their goal - fill the supplies gap caused by lack of funding for Philadelphia public schools by collecting what teachers and kids need in the classroom in the most underserved schools.... Read More |
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| NFL Draft in Philadelphia 2017; Woman Hit By Trash Truck on Beach; Soggy Labor Day in Philly? |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 08/31/16 8:33 pm | updated: 08/31/16 8:33 pm |
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| The National Football League, the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Philadelphia Eagles announced that they will be holding a press conference at City Hall on Thursday at Noon. They are expected to announce that Philadelphia will host the 2017 NFL Draft next April. Chicago has hosted the draft the past two years. New York was the host from 1965-2014. The NFL Draft has become an event centered on more than just the selection of players. Draft... Read More |
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| Another Girl Shot in Crossfire; Tim Tebow's Baseball Tryout; Judge Tosses Lower Merion Tax Increase |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 08/31/16 2:41 pm | updated: 08/31/16 2:41 pm |
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| It has happened again. A 12-year-old girl was shot and wounded by a stray bullet in the city's Fairhill neighborhood. She was just one of three innocent bystanders hit in a triple shooting in which at least 19 shots were fired. Police say gunfire broke out just before 6:30pm Tuesday at N. Marshall and W. Clearfield streets. The girl was leaving a corner store when she was shot in her right leg and taken to the hospital in stable condition. Also wounded: a 23-year-old man hit in his neck, now... Read More |
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| Not Knockout Game, IBEW Investigation, Good Shepherd Vigil |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 08/31/16 2:02 am | updated: 08/31/16 2:02 am |
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Authorities now say that it was an argument, not the so called 'knockout game,' which triggered a fatal punch. The incident was caught on camera in the city's Lawncrest section. The punch sent 30-year-old Mardoqeo Sincal-Jochola stumbling to the ground. He died as a result of his injuries, shortly after. The incident happened Friday in the 700 block of Adams Avenue. Police are searching for the suspects.
Sources close to the IBEW investigation confirmed that a federal grand jury... Read More |
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| 5 Charged in AC Expressway Shootout, Truck Sought; Bruce Beemer New PA AG; Body Found in Schuylkill |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 08/30/16 7:58 pm | updated: 08/30/16 8:00 pm |
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| Five people have been charged in yesterday's shootings on the Atlantic City Expressway in Egg Harbor Township, NJ. One person was killed and four people were injured. The shootout happened on the eastbound Expressway near the Garden State Parkway around 3pm. Shots were fired between multiple vehicles. A bullet-riddled white Ford Expedition containing four injured men was found in the parking lot of a nearby Wawa. The SUV was hit with 21 shots. A Nissan Maxima with a deceased male... Read More |
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| Loggerhead Turtle Rescued; Arrests in AC Xway Shooting; Wolf Pushes Pot Decriminalization |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 08/30/16 2:59 pm | updated: 08/30/16 2:59 pm |
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| The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, New Jersey is treating Loggerhead Sea Turtle after a run in with a boat propeller. Staff there rescued the 140 lb. female Thursday near the Oyster Creek Nuclear plant, after it was apparently injured by a boat propeller. The female loggerhead had been spotted on the intake pipe of the plant and a worker pushed the turtle back into the water, but she kept coming back up to rest. The full extent of her injuries is still unknown, but officials... Read More |
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| Bruce Beemer Vote, Top Party Schools, Hershey Cadbury Deal Over |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 08/30/16 1:02 am | updated: 08/30/16 1:02 am |
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| The state Senate is set to return nearly a month earlier than scheduled Tuesday to vote on Bruce Beemer's nomination to serve the nearly five months that remain in Kathleen Kane's term as Pennsylvania attorney general. The anticipated Senate vote on confirmation of former First Deputy Attorney General Bruce Beemer to serve as Attorney General will come less than two weeks after Bruce Castor became acting AG. Castor was Kathleen Kane's hand-picked second in command. But Jennifer Kocher,... Read More |
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