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Hoboken's Natalie Classen Killed In PA Shooting Was 'Talented Athlete With Relentless Drive' Hoboken's Natalie Classen Killed In PA Shooting Was 'Talented Athlete With Relentless Drive'
Hoboken's Natalie Classen Killed In PA Shooting Was 'Talented Athlete With Relentless Drive' Support was surging and condolences pouring days after the Reading, PA shooting death of New Jersey resident Natalie Classen. The 30-year-old woman was gunned down around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, June 15 while walking with a group on North 10th Street, police in Reading said. When they arrived at the intersection with Greenwich Street, a man with another group approached and shot her once, investigators said.  The suspect and his group fled the area, while Classen flagged down a cab and was taken to Reading Hospital, the department said. She died of her injury while officers were still securin…

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by Cecilia Levine
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PA Man Used Apple Watch To Track Wife Before Shooting Her, Killing Man She Was With: Report PA Man Used Apple Watch To Track Wife Before Shooting Her, Killing Man She Was With: Report
PA Man Used Apple Watch To Track Wife Before Shooting Her, Killing Man She Was With: Report A 38-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing murder charges after injuring his wife and killing another man in what police are calling a "domestic-related shooting" at a shopping center in Berks County on Saturday, March 19. Nehemias Santiago Montes, of York, tracked 30-year-old Jessica M. Cruz-Rodriguez using an Apple watch he'd hidden in her car, and waited for her in the parking lot of the Wyomissing Walmart store around 4 p.m., according to the York Daily Record and Borough Police Chief John G. Phillips. Montes noticed an SUV parked next to her car, driven by Alexi Omar Rodriguez …

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by Nicole Acosta
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Popular Jewish Singer Rear-Ended By Tractor-Trailer On I-78, Reports Say Popular Jewish Singer Rear-Ended By Tractor-Trailer On I-78, Reports Say
Popular Jewish Singer Rear-Ended By Tractor-Trailer On I-78, Reports Say A popular Jewish singer from New York was seriously injured in a crash on I-78 in Pennsylvania, according to news site Hamodia and a tweet asking for prayers. The Spring Valley man was in the shoulder on the eastbound side of the highway near mile marker 14.6 (Bethel Township) in a disabled Nissan Sentra when he was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer around 2 a.m., PA State Police said. יונגערמאן געהאט א שווערע עקסידענט אין דארף רחמים שמים מרובים האט אינזין שמאול יצחק בן חוה לאה לרפואה שלימה pic.twitter.com/gUconOhvtU — Hasidic_3 (@Hasidic_3) January 24, 2022 His vehicle was sent …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Dad Dies Suddenly After Surprise Trip Home To Kiss His Wife Dad Dies Suddenly After Surprise Trip Home To Kiss His Wife
Dad Dies Suddenly After Surprise Trip Home To Kiss His Wife A Central Pennsylvania community is mourning the loss of a father-of-four who collapsed shortly after a surprise trip home from work just to kiss his wife, those who knew him said. Joseph M. Matonti IV, 40, of Coatesville, told his wife he wasn’t feeling well and collapsed in her arms in the driveway, according to a GoFundMe launched by family friend, JenMarie Macdonald. EMS was soon called and Matonti was rushed to Brandywine Hospital, and then life-flighted to Reading Hospital, according to the page. Once in Reading, he underwent emergency surgery and was put on life support, but he unfo…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Deadly Police Shooting Of 'Emotional, Confused' Man Battling Cancer Was Unjust, Daughter Says Deadly Police Shooting Of 'Emotional, Confused' Man Battling Cancer Was Unjust, Daughter Says
Deadly Police Shooting Of 'Emotional, Confused' Man Battling Cancer Was Unjust, Daughter Says It wasn't brain or lung cancer that killed a 62-year-old Berks County man battling both. Rather, a police shooting on Monday that his daughter is calling a tragic and unjust misunderstanding that could have been avoided and handled differently. Steven Hughes of Muhlenberg Township was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer early last year and has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment for both ever since. The treatment often leaves him confused -- according to his daughter, Anjie Leigh Hughes, of Montgomery County -- which was exactly the case Monday afternoon, when he reporte…

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by Nicole Acosta