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Brisk, overcast Sunday weather in Philadelphia with rain sweeping in making for a wet Broad Street Run
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Runners aren't letting wet weather stop them as the Broad Street Run is in full swing. Showers are spreading across the Delaware Valley, and it's expected to be an all-day event. Steady showers will envelop Philadelphia for most of the late morning but will taper off by the early afternoon with spotty showers in the north and west of the city, including the Lehigh Valley, upper Bucks County and Montgomery County. This rain in the first half of the day does not really touch the southern half of Delaware or the Jersey Shore, but wet weather will arrive there...
Man critically injured in shooting at Broad Street seafood restaurant
Police in Philadelphia are investigating after a man was shot multiple times inside a seafood restaurant along Broad Street in North Philadelphia on Saturday night. According to police, officers responded to a shooting at Crab Du Jour, located along the 800 block of N. Broad Street, at about 10:45 p.m. on Saturday to find a 25-year-old man after he had been shot in his stomach, left arm and left thigh.
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods
The Mantua neighborhood in West Philadelphia is undergoing rapid gentrification. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation U.S., CC BY-NC-ND by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, University at Albany, State University of New York and Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University. Society Hill, where Sixers star Joel Embiid recently put his penthouse condo on the market for US$5.5...
5 men impersonating police officers charged in 2006 kidnapping, murder
Federal prosecutors charged five men this week accused of impersonating Philadelphia police officers in the 2006 kidnapping and killing of a 38-year-old man. The indictment filed in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Pennsylvania alleges the men — while posing as police officers using fake badges, police lights, and firearms — kidnapped Shamari Taylor and his then-21-year-old girlfriend from West Philadelphia to rob him of cocaine and drug money. Kevin Holloway, 45; Mark Scott, 48; Linton Mathis, 50; Atiba Wicker, 47; and Kenneth Tuck, 51, were charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death,...
Here is Everything You Wanted to Know About Jason Kelce’s Narberth-based Underdog Clothing Line
Jason Kelce shows off some of his Underdog apparel from his new clothing line benefiting Philly kids. Jason Kelce’s love for Philadelphia is no more evident than it is in the passion he puts into his apparel brand Underdog Apparel, writes Laura Swartz for Philadelphia Magazine. The much-loved Philadelphia...
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