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Woman Who Enthralled Philadelphia With Her Facebook Photos, Police Chase, Gets Prison Sentence

Remember Shayna Sykes? We’ve included a visual refresher at left if you forgot—she’s the young New Jersey woman who, along with her boyfriend, was accused […]

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Slate Calls Out Norristown for Really Dumb Law

Norristown’s got a law that a landlord can evict a tenant if they make three or more 911 calls within the span of four months. […]

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Masked Teens Rob School Janitor at Gunpoint

Earlier this week, two 15-year-old teenagers robbed the janitor at Sumner Elementary School in Camden, New Jersey at gunpoint, say Camden County Police. According to […]

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FBI Searching for Philly-Based Communist

The woman above, the FBI informs us today, was a member of the “May 19th Communist Organization, a Marxist-Leninist organization which advocated the armed revolution […]

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Interactive Map: Every Philly Murder in the Last Decade

We’d call this City Paper/Axis Philly collaboration a “cool map,” but it seems insensitive. At the very least, it’s an extremely useful documentation of every […]

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An Ex-Philly Priest Has Been Charged with Sexual Assault

Rev. Robert Brennan, a 75-year-old former Philly priest has been charged with assaulting a altar boy over the course of four years in the late […]

Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia magazine.
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The Real Reason the Media Kept Its Distance from the Gosnell Trial

In writing the story of Kermit Gosnell, even in the form of a 13,000 word e-book, there is a lot of material I had to […]

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Hugh Douglas Arrested for Attacking Woman; Philly Beginning to Consider Possibility He Is An Awful, Awful Person

Former Eagle Hugh Douglas, fired from ESPN this summer for using a racial slur against a colleague, is in trouble again.  WFSB in Connecticut has […]

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If Somebody’s Attacking a SEPTA Officer, SEPTA Would Like You to Not Ignore That, Please

SEPTA officers are getting grumpy about a spate of recent incidents in which officers have been attacked—and the public has just watched, without intervening or […]

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Crowdsourcing Big Brother: Police Turn to Private Cameras for Surveilance

Remember, earlier this year City Controller Alan Butkovitz criticized the city’s surveillance camera system, saying only about a third of the cameras work? We find […]

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Man Sentenced for Threatening CBS3’s Kate Bilo

The Inquirer reports: A Lansdowne man who threatened over Twitter to rape a television meteorologist and kill her and her child was sentenced Tuesday to […]

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Professional Thieves Robbing Work Trucks in Delco

Usually, when you steal a car, you’re stealing it because it’s a car. It can go places. There’s drink holders. You can put stuff in […]

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PHOTO: Marc Vetri Hovers Over Obama’s Shoulder During Navy Yard Shooting Address

Speaking to the press this afternoon, President Obama vowed to bring to justice those responsible for the “cowardly” mass shooting this morning at the Washington […]

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Ex-Penn Prof. Rafael Robb Is Still Deluded

Seven years ago, ex-Penn economics professor Rafael Robb beat his wife, Ellen Gregory Robb, to death with a metal bar. Then, he staged a break-in […]

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Pennsylvania Legislators Considering Cyberbullying Legislation

Online bullies headquartered in Pennsylvania, take note: your days of web tyranny are drawing to an end. So, you know, get your last shots in […]