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WATCH: Charles Ramsey Gets Hair Cut, Gets Frank About #BlackLivesMatter, Gun Violence, Ex-Cons’ Rights

Phila. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey bluntly gave his take on the Black Lives Matter movement while getting his ears lowered last week. The barber-side chat […]

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Bensalem PD: Man Sold Fake Eagles Tickets at Parx

Bensalem Police are looking for a man who they say sold counterfeit Eagles tickets to Sunday’s home opener against the Cowboys. The buyer, from New […]

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No Charges for Hatboro Councilman Who Shot Suspected TD Bank Robber

Montgomery County district attorney Risa Vetri Ferman announced today that Hatboro Councilman George Forgeng, who shot a suspected bank robber this summer, will not face […]

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Attack Outside Manayunk Bar Leaves Man in ICU

Good things don’t normally happen at 3 a.m., and especially not outside of bars in Manayunk. In this case, a man was seriously injured in […]

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FBI: Terror Suspect Tried to Fly Out of Philly Airport to Join ISIS

The United States Attorney in New York has announced the arrest of Ali Saleh, a 22-year-old man from Queens who stands accused of attempting to […]

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Man Charged With Stealing 17 Taxicabs and Retired Police Cars

Back in June, we told you about a string of cab thefts in Philadelphia, and police released the surveillance image seen above of the suspect […]

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Cosby: The Women Speak Airs Tonight on A&E

More than a dozen of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them will be featured in a new documentary, Cosby: The […]

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Teen Arrested for Shooting, String of Robberies in University City

Back in August, a man was shot inside a deli in University City, and now police have arrested a suspect in the case, adding that […]

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Government Drops Charges Against Chinese-Born Temple Prof

Federal officials on Friday dropped charges against the Temple professor they had previously said shared confidential technology to his native China. The feds offered no […]

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Feds: Fake Lawyer Represented Immigration Clients Under Nose of Department of Homeland Security, DOJ

With all of the concern over illegal immigrants and Islamic extremists in this country, you’d think that the Department of Homeland Security and the Department […]

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Pair Break Into Kensington Home, Take Car Keys, Steal Car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Vp7LgD1Ic Police in Philadelphia are looking for a duo that broke into a woman’s house in West Kensington, took her car keys, then walked up and […]

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Philadelphia Receives Grant to Resolve Rape Kit Backlog

Yesterday Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced that 32 jurisdictions in 20 states — including the City of Philadelphia — would receive part of a total […]

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Guilty Plea in Brazen Germantown Kidnapping

The man who grabbed Carlesha Freeland-Gaither off a Germantown street won’t be getting out anytime soon. Delvin Barnes, 37, pleaded guilty today to kidnapping Freeland-Gaither […]

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Man Steals $5,000 in Laptops From Northeast Philly Catholic School

A man broke into St. Martin of Tours school in Summerdale and stole $5,000 worth of laptops and other computer equipment, police said. The robbery […]

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Feds Charge Six Philly Prison Guards With Smuggling OxyContin to Inmates

On Wednesday afternoon United States Attorney Zane David Memeger announced charges of attempted extortion and attempted distribution of controlled substances against four current and two […]