Crime

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Philly’s Murder Rate Is Skyrocketing Again in 2014

2013 is starting to seem like a very long time ag0—remember when we were debating how much credit Mayor Nutter might deserve for the year’s […]

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Here Are Mugshots of Alleged Swiss Cheese Pervert Chris Pagano [UPDATED]

UPDATE: Swiss Cheese Pervert suspect Chris Pagano has been arrested. For the complete story, go here. ORIGINAL: When I showed up at Chris Pagano’s Norristown […]

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Main Line Lawyer Charged With Smuggling Wine

CBS reports that Arthur David Goldman has been charged with smuggling high-end wines and selling them out of his home.

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One Man, One Wawa, Five Robberies

6ABC reports: “A Northeast Philadelphia Wawa store was robbed on Monday morning, the fifth robbery since last fall – and investigators believe the same man […]

City Life

Is This Guy the Swiss Cheese Pervert? [UPDATED]

UPDATE: Swiss Cheese Pervert suspect Chris Pagano has been arrested. For the complete story, go here. ORIGINAL: On Friday afternoon, I broke the news that […]

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Philadelphia Police Looking for Alleged “Swiss Cheese Pervert” [UPDATED]

UPDATE: Swiss Cheese Pervert suspect Chris Pagano has been arrested. For the complete story, go here. ORIGINAL: Have you seen this man? Fat white dude. […]

Property

Morning Headlines: A Rise in Lower Merion Crime

Perhaps the only good to come out of these freezing days is that burglars feel it too. That’s what police superintendent Michael J. McGrath surmises […]

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Tollefson Expected to Face Charges Soon; Skips Civil Hearing

The Intelligencer reports:  Charges against former television personality Don Tollefson will likely be filed before the end of January, a Bucks County prosecutor confirmed Thursday. […]

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Free Mumia’s Lawyer!

As far as I know, Mumia Abu-Jamal is guilty, guilty, guilty of gunning down a Philly cop in cold blood back in 1981. The system […]

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Marijuana is Legal In Colorado. So When Will America’s Super-Racist Drug War End?

According to a 2013 report by the ACLU, blacks are almost four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. It’s a […]

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Here’s How to Say Something When You See Something

Newsworks reports that Philadelphia mass transit riders can now call #1776 from mobile phones if “to report suspicious activity on the transit system.”

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Kai the Homeless Hitchhiker Pleads Not Guilty

Remember Kai the Homeless Hitchhiker and Viral Internet Sensation Who Allegedly Killed a Guy in Jersey and Then Tried to Escape from the Greyhound Station […]

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Update: “Jihad Jane” Gets 10-Year Sentence

[Update: 12:27 pm] KYW reports LaRose has received a 10-year sentence. [Original] CBS Philly reports that the 50-year-old Pennsburg woman known as “Jihad Jane” will […]

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The Continuing Fight Against Gun Violence: Can Smart Guns Keep Your Kid From Becoming the Next Adam Lanza?

Shortly after I finished writing about gun control for the January issue of Philly Mag, the American Psychological Association issued a report on the causes […]

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Does Mayor Nutter Deserve More Credit for Philly’s Dropping Murder Rate?

Over on Twitter, journalist Patrick Kerkstra asks a really good question: Is it just me, or is plummeting homicide rate not getting the attn it […]