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Russia Detains NJ Soccer Player, WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich On Espionage Charges
Wall Street Journal reporter and 31-year-old New Jersey native Evan Gershkovich has been detained by Russian security agents on espionage charges, according to various news reports.
Gershkovich, who grew up in Princeton, was allegedly trying to obtain classified information, and was detained in Yekaterinburg, Russia's Federal Security Service said Thursday, March 30.
Gershkovich, who played soccer for Bowdoin College, is the first American correspondent to be detained on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War. In 1986, U.S. News and World Report reporter Nicholas Daniloff was arres…
Victim Of Philly Area Crash 'Thought The Best Of People'
Funeral services have been set for the 32-year-old woman who died of injuries sustained in a Ridgelsville crash last weekend.
Anna "Anya" Hauber, of Nockamixon Township, was adopted with her sister was born in Russia and adopted by her parents, Charles and Karen Hauber, of Broomall, on Dec. 2, 2005 — along with her younger sister, Kristina, according to her obituary.
Anya studied graphic design at Delaware County Community College after graduating from the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School in June 2010, her obituary reads. She enjoyed cooking, ballet in her teen years, p…