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Rite Aid to close 16 more stores, including 4 in Pa.
Pharmaceutical chain Rite Aid plans to close 16 more stores, including four locations in Pennsylvania. The stores are located in Schuylkill, Philadelphia, Wayne and Lehigh counties. In a bankruptcy filing earlier this week, Rite Aid said it plans to close the following stores in Pennsylvania:. 500 N. Claude Lord Blvd.,...
Route 322 Crash: Victims Named In Quadruple Fatal Wreck
A red Ford Taurus with seven people inside sped off when a state police vehicle tried to pull them over at 1:30 p.m., officials said previously. After a brief pursuit, the trooper turned off their lights and sirens as the Taurus continued and immediately crashed, according to police. Four occupants...
Can You Name Pennsylvania’s Longest Bridge? It’s in Our Neighborhood
Pennsylvania boasts 25,400 state-owned bridges and one of its longest happens to be right in our backyard, writes Rob Amend for AZ Animals. The Commodore Barry Bridge over the Delaware River connects Chester with Bridgeport, New Jersey. Not only is it the state’s longest bridge, but it is also the fourth-largest cantilever bridge in the world.
Arrest made in Wilmington cold case murder
A New Castle County grand jury returned a murder indictment on Monday, April 22, 2024, against 30-year old Robin Webster in connection with a 2017 homicide. Wilmington Police detectives, and cold case investigators, identified Webster as a suspect in the shooting death of 34-year old Jermaine Francois. The victim was...
Girl, 14, abducted while video chatting with mother in Kensington
KENSINGTON - A mother has experienced a worst nightmare as her daughter was abducted while they were on a FaceTime call. The incident happened at the intersection of K and Venango streets just before 5 p.m. Thursday evening, officials said. The daughter, 14, was talking with her mom on FaceTime...
This Delaware County Community Was Named 3rd Safest in Pennsylvania
Property Club, a New York City property listing site, has listed a Delaware County community as the third safest community in Pennsylvania. The site posted information to people relocating to Pennsylvania and identified. in a listing of the state’s safest communities. Swarthmore ranked just below Murrysville and above West...
PA man arrested for calling in ‘swatting’ prank against ex-girlfriend in CT
NORWALK, CT (WFSB) - A man from Philadelphia was arrested for a fake emergency call about a woman held a gunpoint at a home in Connecticut. Norwalk police determined that Maurice Smith, 39, made the “swatting” call to his ex-girlfriend’s home in Norwalk. They said they received...
Former Philly police officer who shot and killed a Black man as he ran away will have his old job back
Ryan Pownall, who lost his job as a Philadelphia cop when he fatally shot a man twice in the back in 2017, will return to the police force. Pownall won his arbitration with the city on Thursday.
This Delco town is among Money magazine's '50 Best Places to Live in U.S.'
Money magazine's list of the "50 Best Places to Live in the U.S." is out, and one Delaware County town made the cut. The magazine noted there is no shortage of great options in the Philadelphia suburbs, but Media, "an eclectic, renter-friendly borough of about 6,000 residents, is pretty hard to beat."
2 shot just hours apart in Wilmington Thursday evening, police say
Two men were injured just hours apart in separate shootings in Wilmington on Thursday, police said. The first shooting occurred just before 6:45 p.m. in the first block of Cedar Street. Responding officers found a 34-year-old man hurt. He was taken to a local hospital, where police said he was...
Lawrence Green Marcus Hook Motorcyclist South Brunswick
Lawrence Green of Marcus Hook, PA, was operating a Honda motorcycle near Major Road during the 7:40 a.m. crash on Tuesday, April 23, according to South Brunswick police. Green was driving on the shoulder of Route 1 northbound when he was struck by a Chevy Malibu attempting to merge onto the Major Road off-ramp, police said.
NJ Target employee stops 3 women stealing shopping cart with nearly $600 of merchandise
Dramatic video captured an attentive Target employee jumping into action and stopping three women from stealing a shopping cart with nearly $600 worth of clothes and other goods moments before the wannabe thieves took off. Surveillance footage from Target in Gloucester Township shows the employee sprinting out of the store and stopping the women just outside the entrance — prompting them to run to their silver Jeep SUV parked nearby and take off. The trio entered the Berlin Cross Keys Road store on Monday and filled their cart to the brim with clothing and other items totaling $581.29, Gloucester Township police...
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