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| Third Haverford Spring Fest a Huge Hit - by Sara Shields |
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 by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/08/16 3:49 pm | updated: 05/08/16 3:49 pm |
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The Haverford Spring Fest was everything all the hype made it out to be; a day filled with good food, good company, and great music.
As a first-timer attending this event, it's no question that the day certainly lived up to its expectations. Vendors lined the street with a variety of food, drinks, and other merchandise as fantastic performances from the Haverford High School Jazz Ensemble, Mason Porter, Cheerleader, Lisa Chavous and the Philadelphia Blues Messengers, Chico's... Read More |
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| 2 Caught, 1 Sought Northeast High Assault; Man Shot Outside Camden Viewing; Maryland Suspect Caught |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/06/16 8:19 pm | updated: 05/06/16 8:19 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police have arrested two people and are searching for a third in connection to a violent assault on school police officers at Northeast High School on Monday. The attack happened around 3:30 p.m. on May 2nd on the corner of Cottman and Castor Avenues. The two officers were escorting a group of students to a SEPTA bus when they saw the suspects assaulting a student. They tried to intervene and stop the fight and that's when the suspects turned on the officers. One suffered a... Read More |
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| Oil Slick on Schuylkill; Road Rage Shooting on 476; Penn State Molestation Charges from the 1970s |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/06/16 11:37 am | updated: 05/06/16 11:37 am |
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Emergency crews found a green, oily sheen on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, the second time this week there appears to have been some kind of spill into the river. The substance spotted Thursday night smelled like diesel fuel, but authorities were still trying to figure out what it was and where it came from. City fire crews and U.S. Coast Guard officials are investigating.
Pennsylvania State Police say a motorist traveling on the Blue Route fired a gun at another man's... Read More |
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| Man Arrested For Bar Assault, Man Arrested For Stealing $900K, Obama Pardons 55 More Prisoner's |
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 by: blogue40 - Phoenixville, PA
started: 05/06/16 3:53 am | updated: 05/06/16 3:53 am |
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Police have now arrested the man responsible for a brutal attack outside of a South Philadelphia bar. 21-year-old Alfredo Nicotra has been charged with the assault. Police say Nicotra got into an altercation with a man at the bar, hit him with a glass and started punching him. He is now facing many charges including aggravated assault.
A Bryn Mawr man has been charged with stealing over $900,000 from a families Chester County Farm. 35-year-old Clifton Willson who was a part-time... Read More |
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| NJ RiverLine Crashed into Car; Fugitive Still Loose in Barnegat; Road Rage Shooting on Blue Route |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/05/16 7:51 pm | updated: 05/05/16 7:51 pm |
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| A New Jersey Transit train crashed into a vehicle in Riverton, Burlington County on Thursday morning. It happened just before 10:30 a.m. near the Riverton Station along Main Street. The light-rail RiverLine train t-boned a Mercedes Benz station wagon. An elderly couple was trapped inside the wagon. They were taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. Two of the 35 passengers on the train were also injured. They were taken to Cooper University Hospital. All four suffered... Read More |
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| Turnpike 476 South Closed; SW Philly Street Collapses; Beyonce Adds Second Philadelphia Concert |
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by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/05/16 1:32 pm | updated: 05/05/16 1:32 pm |
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The southbound lanes of the Northeast Extension have been closed while crews work to clean up an accident. A truck went over a guard rail and into a construction zone about 5 miles south of the Lansdale exit. Crews are also working to clean up at least two other crashes. Traffic is being detoured at the Quakertown interchange.
UPDATE: The accident has been cleared and the Northeast Extension southbound has been reopened, however delays continue.
Crews were on... Read More |
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| Body Found In North Philly, Kasich Drops Out, One Killed In Carbon County Car Accident |
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by: blogue40 - Phoenixville, PA
started: 05/05/16 3:24 am | updated: 05/05/16 3:24 am |
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Police are now investigating after a body was found in North East Philadelphia. The body was found yesterday at 7 A.M. on the 8100 block of Crispin Street. The man is believed to be in his mid 30's and was found only in his underwear. There is still no cause of death, but the medical examiner is still investigating.
John Kasich has now dropped out of the Republican Presidential race. He suspended his campaign yesterday evening. Kasich gave a speech last night thanking his wife,... Read More |
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| Man Files False Report of Robbery; Center City Soda Tax Protest; Fugitive Inmate on Run in Barnegat |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/05/16 1:32 am | updated: 05/05/16 1:32 am |
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| 65-year-old Michael Cohen of Bass River, NJ, told police that he was robbed at gunpoint on Monday of $150. He said it happened at approximately 11:25 a.m. on May 2nd on Route 9 and Ash Road in Bass River Township, Burlington County. He described his attacker as a black male in his mid/late 30's with an earring in his right ear, a nose ring, bald head, and goatee. The man also spoke with an English or British accent. A composite sketch drawn up by police artists looks conspicuously like... Read More |
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| The Great Migration, First Friday Rent Party Series w/ Philadelphia Jazz Project Starts May 6th |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 05/04/16 6:03 pm | updated: 05/04/16 6:03 pm |
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| 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great Migration: A historic period when millions of Black Americans moved from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. This changed the country culturally, politically and socially. People like Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy, Percy and Tootie Heath, Cat Anderson, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Hamilton, Hank Mobley and... Read More |
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| Philly School Officers Beat Up, Man Shot In Frankford, Verizon Striker's Lose Benefits |
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by: blogue40 - Phoenixville, PA
started: 05/04/16 2:14 am | updated: 05/04/16 2:14 am |
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| Two Philadelphia school security officers were attacked yesterday after trying to break up a fight between two men outside of a pizza shop at the corner of Cottman and Castor. The fight started out as a brawl between two North East High School students, the security officers tried to break it up, and then 2 unidentified men started beating up the officers. One of the officers suffered a broken jaw, and the other had serious bruising from being punched in the face. So far, no suspects have been... Read More |
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