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Philadelphia police say at least three people were killed in citywide Labor Day weekend shootings. According to WPVI-TV, a total of 10 people—including those killed—were wounded Saturday morning in eight separate shootings; the first of which reportedly took place after 1 a.m. Saturday near Chew Avenue and Locust Street in the Germantown neighborhood. Police say the 26-year-old […]
Yaqub Talib, brother of former NFL cornerback Aqib Talib, is wanted by authorities after a man was fatally shot following a youth football game in Texas over the weekend. TMZ has learned the Lancaster Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Talib, who is being charged with murder. The charge comes one day after […]
Representative Glenn Thompson, a Pennsylvania Republican, attended his gay son’s wedding just days after voting against a House bill that would codify the right to same-sex marriages into federal law. On July 19, three days before his son tied the knot, Thompson was one of 157 Republicans to oppose the legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act, abbreviated […]
A children’s theme park based on the wide world of Sesame Street is under fire amid the sharing of quickly-made-viral footage showing a character seemingly declining to provide a high-five or other acknowledgment to two young Black girls. The footage in question was shared by Instagram user @_jodiii__ and shows a park worker (in character […]
A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced last week to a maximum of 23 months in jail for receiving her grandmother’s Social Security checks as her remains were being kept in a freezer for 15 years, York Daily Record reports. In addition to the possibility of spending nearly two years behind bars, Cynthia Black, 63, received two years probation […]
It was like a scene out of the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Thursday when two employees from the Mars Wrigley plant in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania were rescued after falling into a tank filled with chocolate, WPMT reports. A Lancaster County 911 spokesperson told TODAY that a call was received around 10:51 a.m. about the incident. “The incident […]
Three people are dead and 14 others are wounded after a gunman opened fired into a crowd on a popular stretch of South Street in Philadelphia late Saturday night. NBC Philly reports the gunfire erupted shortly before midnight in the city’s Queen Village neighborhood. Police observed “several active shooters shooting into the crowd,” according to Philadelphia Police […]
A house explosion in Pottstown, Pennsylvania has left five people dead and two people in critical condition. 6 ABC reports that the incident happened just after 8 p.m. local time on Thursday night, revealing the victims who passed away to be 67-year-old Francine White, 13-year-old Alana Wood, 12-year-old Jeremiah White, 10-year-old Nehemiah White, and 8-year-old […]
A four-year-old girl is dead after being shot by her younger brother in Chester, Pennsylvania. The shooting, per a regional report from 6 ABC, took place while the siblings—a four-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother—were inside a parked car alone at a gas station. In a statement shared Tuesday, the City of Chester Police Department […]
More than 40 people engaged in a massive brawl at a Pennsylvania Golden Corral on Friday, which allegedly occurred because the buffet ran out of steak. In a video shared with CBS Philly, customers can be seen throwing punches as chairs fly. At one point, a man can be heard screaming out, “all I wanted was some […]
