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PA Mom Gave Alcohol To 3-Year-Old To Help Child Sleep: Police
A Pennsylvania mother gave alcohol to her children on multiple occasions, including her 3-year-old in an attempt to help the toddler fall asleep, according to a police investigation made public on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Jacqueline Dawn Wiggins, 39, of Lititz, was charged with felony endangering the welfare of children, misdemeanor corruption of minors, and furnishing alcohol to a minor, Northern Lancaster County Regional Police said. The investigation began after detectives received a report from Lancaster County Children and Youth Services alleging that Wiggins had provided alcohol to minors, a…
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Unauthorized Person Found Inside Montco School, Students, Staff Evacuated
Students and staff at a Pennsylvania technical school were evacuated after an unauthorized person was discovered inside the building on Tuesday, Oct. 13, authorities announced. The Eastern Center for Arts and Technology was evacuated to the nearby Upper Moreland High School campus in Montgomery County as a precaution, according to an alert issued at 2:47 p.m. All students and faculty members were safe, accounted for, and unharmed, officials said. The Eastern campus was expected to remain closed for several hours while authorities conducted an investigation. Officials did not immediately r…
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Montco Teen Flees Cops During Car Meet At NJ Kohl's, Police Say
A 17-year-old Pennsylvania boy was arrested after police say he tried fleeing officers during a reckless driving gathering in a New Jersey parking lot early Sunday, Oct. 11. Police responded to the Kohl's parking lot at 3 Millcreek Drive in Secaucus around 4:34 a.m. after receiving reports of several vehicles driving recklessly, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. Officers attempted to stop one of the vehicles, but the driver fled, police said. Police eventually stopped the vehicle and arrested the 17-year-old driver from Pottstown, PA, on charges of eluding and riot: failure to disp…
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Trauma Patient Attacks Nurse At Pennsylvania Hospital, Police Say
A 19-year-old trauma patient attacked a nurse who was helping care for her at a Pennsylvania hospital, leaving the healthcare worker with visible injuries, police announced on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The assault happened at Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center, located at 503 North 21st Street in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, around 5:51 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27, according to East Pennsboro Township police. Officers responded to the hospital after receiving a report that a member of the medical staff had been assaulted. The nurse told investigators that a trauma patient phy…
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Man Killed, Firefighter Burned In Raging PA Apartment Fire; 2 Rescued
A man was killed, a firefighter suffered burns, and two people were rescued from a raging apartment fire that tore through a three-story building in West Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, according to fire officials and media reports. Firefighters were dispatched to the 4400 block of Chestnut Street, near the intersection of 44th Street in University City, around 6:20 a.m., according to 6ABC Action News. Crews arrived to find heavy smoke and flames pouring from the third floor of the building, with fire spreading through the roof. Aerial footage captured flames shooting into the mo…
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: Humpback Whale Crashes Into Small Boat Off Long Island Coast: ‘Holy!’
A giant humpback whale crashed into a boat off the coast of Long Island on Saturday, Oct. 10. The shocking collision was captured on video by Steven Heid, who shared the clip on social media. The whale approached Heid’s boat quickly as he was fishing in Moriches Inlet, the video shows. It appeared to be feeding, as dozens of fish are seen flying through the air in the moments before the whale slammed into the boat’s side. View this post on Instagram While the whale made solid contact with the side of the boat, appearing to even “bite” the sid…
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Retired UConn Prof’s Son Faces Bomb Charges Years After Dad Said He Gave Him Explosive Material
A Connecticut man charged with making bombs after police searched his home during a domestic disturbance investigation was previously accused of making explosives in a 2010 case that led to his father’s arrest. Aleksi Javanainen, 30, was arrested on Oct. 3 at his home on Hanks Hill Road in Mansfield. He was charged with illegally possessing explosives, manufacturing bombs, and three misdemeanor counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, Connecticut State Police said. According to his arrest warrant, police began investigating after a woman told troopers that Javanainen kept unlocke…
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Convicted Stalker Terrorizes Woman With Diapers At Pennsylvania Giant: Police
A convicted stalker who repeatedly violated probation and parole frightened a 20-year-old woman by placing diapers on her car at a Pennsylvania Giant grocery store, prompting fears that she was being targeted for human trafficking or abduction, police said. Michael John Kent, 38, of Kennett Square, was arrested on Monday, Oct. 12, following the bizarre incident at the Giant supermarket at 3477 Lincoln Highway in Thorndale, according to Caln Township police and court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The woman arrived at the supermarket around 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, …
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Severely Emaciated Dog Rescued From NY Home, Husband And Wife Charged: Authorities
A Long Island husband and wife were hit with animal cruelty charges after their dog was found severely emaciated, weighing nearly half his expected weight, authorities said. Michael O’Brien, 39, and Jenecia O’Brien, 37, both of Sound Beach, failed to provide enough food, water, and veterinary care for their dog, Kobe, from early this year into October, the Suffolk County SPCA said Tuesday, Oct. 13. Kobe, a 5-year-old Coonhound-Boxer mix, weighed just 37 pounds when he was brought for veterinary care, well below the expected 65 to 67 pounds for a dog of his breed and age, the SPCA said. Kob…
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Former Campaign Treasurer Admits Stealing $1M From Clients, Including PA Congressional Campaign
A former political campaign treasurer who stole more than $1 million from clients across the country, including a Pennsylvania congressional campaign, has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges, authorities announced. Yolanda Brown, 47, also known as Yolanda Rumph, of Arlington, Virginia, entered her guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Chad F. Kenney in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Sept. 23, according to U.S. Attorney David Metcalf. The FBI Philadelphia division shared the case on Thursday, Oct. 8. Brown owned and operated Brown Financial & Consulting Services Group LLC, providin…
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Child Injured After SUV Hydroplanes In Three-Vehicle Crash With Tractor-Trailer On Rt 15 In PA
Two people, including a child, were injured when an SUV hydroplaned on a rain-soaked Pennsylvania highway, triggering a three-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer, police said. The crash happened on northbound US Route 15 near mile marker 38.3 in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, around 11:48 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, according to Upper Allen Township Police. Investigators determined that the driver of a Kia Telluride was traveling too fast for the weather conditions when the SUV hydroplaned and collided with a Toyota Sienna. A tractor-trailer approaching the initial crash was u…
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Cops ID Worker Trapped In Asphalt Silo After Falling Backward At NJ Plant
A 26-year-old Mays Landing man was rescued after he was trapped inside an asphalt bin in Egg Harbor Township, Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, authorities said. At 6:03 a.m., officers responded to AE Stone at 1435 Doughty Rd after Cameron Briggs fell backwards into a recycled asphalt bin, Egg Harbor Township police said. A partial collapse of the asphalt occurred and Briggs ended up trapped in a seated position with his legs straight out and asphalt over his waist, police said. Workers called for emergency assistance after they spent 20 minutes trying to free him, police said. Briggs remain…
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Harvard, Stanford Grad Turned
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A Harvard and Stanford graduate who became a pediatrician caring for children across the country before joining UPMC in Harrisburg has died in a house fire at age 41, her employer confirmed. Dr. Julia Pederson died following a fire at a home in the 2900 block of Green Street in Harrisburg on Saturday, Oct. 10, according to UPMC and emergency dispatch records. The fire broke out around 7:05 a.m., and the initial 911 caller reported that a space heater in a bedroom had started the blaze, according to Dauphin County dispatch logs. The caller also reported that a woman was the only person stil…
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PA Lawyer Used $400K In Fake Checks To Dodge Taxes, Buy Electric Truck, Feds Say
A Pennsylvania attorney admitted to using more than $400,000 in fake checks to avoid paying federal taxes and purchase a new electric truck, then suing the dealership after it reclaimed the vehicle, federal prosecutors announced. Daniel A. Pallen, 46, of Springfield, Delaware County, pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud before U.S. District Judge Gail A. Weilheimer on Tuesday, Sept. 1, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania shared by the FBI on Friday, Oct. 9. Pallen, a licensed attorney who owns a la…
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Montco Father Mourns Son Killed In NJ Crash Involving 6 PA Boys
Six Pennsylvania teens were involved in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed two of them and sent four others to the hospital, authorities said. The crash happened around 5:06 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, in the southbound outer lanes near mile marker 69.9 in Cranbury, Middlesex County Prosecutor Linda Estremera and New Jersey State Police Acting Superintendent Jeanne Hengemuhle said. The vehicle was carrying six people when it crashed, ejecting two occupants, a 19-year-old from Warminster and a 16-year-old from Hatboro, authorities said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The four…
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Horse-And-Buggy Crash Injures 1, Closes Pennsylvania Road
One person was hospitalized after a horse-and-buggy collided with another vehicle in Lancaster County on Monday, Oct. 12, emergency dispatchers said. The crash happened near the intersection of White Oak and Pond roads in Strasburg Township around 12:02 p.m., according to Lancaster County-Wide Communications. Emergency medical crews responded to the scene and transported one person to a hospital, dispatchers said. The extent of the person's injuries was not immediately known. White Oak Road was closed between Eisenberger Road and May Post Office Road as emergency crews remained at the scen…
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Masked Gunmen Drag Man From Car, Threaten To Kill Him, Steal Money In PA Kidnapping Plot
Three masked gunmen fired a shot at a man, pistol-whipped him, threatened to kill him, and forced him to transfer $2,050 through Cash App during a violent robbery and kidnapping attempt in Chester County, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. The three Coatesville men, Raijon Redd, 31, Steven Pittman Jr., 24, and Brandon Norris, 35, pleaded guilty on Monday, Sept. 28, and were sentenced to prison, the Chester County District Attorney's Office announced on Monday, Oct. 12. The attack happened on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, in a parking lot along Business Route 30 in South Coates…
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Selma Blair Seen In Court, Lawyer Provides Apparent Reason For Flight Arrest: Reports
New details are coming to light in the arrest of actress Selma Blair following an apparently bloody flight from Los Angeles to JFK Airport on Sunday, Oct. 11. The "Hellboy" and "Cruel Intentions" actress has been charged with two counts of assault for kicking a Port Authority Police Department officer following what was described as a bloody altercation on a flight from Los Angeles to JFK Airport on Sunday, Oct. 11, ABC News reports. Blair, 54, missed several doses of a "powerful" medication and hit her head before the ordeal, the New York Post reports citing the actress' lawyers. One attor…
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Second Cornell Gang Rape Case Defendant Seeks To Remove Special Prosecutor From Case: Report
A second man accused in a high-profile sexual assault lawsuit involving Cornell University is seeking to remove New York Attorney General Letitia James from the criminal investigation, arguing that her public comments about the accuser raise questions about her impartiality as special prosecutor. Winston Lee, one of seven former fraternity members named in the lawsuit, filed a motion in Tompkins County criminal court on Friday, Oct. 9, asking a judge to bar James from overseeing the investigation and participating in any future grand jury proceedings, NBC News reported. The filing com…
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Naked, Drunk PA Man Exposed Himself As Children Got Off School Bus: Police
A 62-year-old Pennsylvania man was naked, intoxicated, and sweating profusely outside his home as children got off a school bus and neighbors watched, police said. Thomas M. Hale, of Mount Joy, was arrested on Friday, Oct. 9, following reports of a completely naked man walking outside in the 100 block of Farmington Way, according to Mount Joy Borough Police in a release issued Monday, Oct. 12. Hale was outside his residence without any clothing while multiple neighbors were in the area and children were exiting their school bus, officers said. Hale was intoxicated and sweating profusely wh…
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Man Threatened To Harm Victim, Barricaded Himself In Home Until Police Deployed Gas: PSP
A Pennsylvania man who threatened to physically harm someone barricaded himself inside a Williamsport home, leading to an hourslong standoff that ended when a State Police tactical team deployed gas canisters and entered the residence, authorities announced Monday, Oct. 12. Dominic Reynolds was taken into custody following the standoff in the 2200 block of Newberry Street in Williamsport, Lycoming County, according to a Pennsylvania State Police release issued at 3:30 p.m. Monday. The incident began around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, when Pennsylvania State Police were notified that Reynold…
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Man Who Killed Ex's Boyfriend, Held Her, 4 Kids Hostage Dies After Shooting Self: Police
A 29-year-old Pennsylvania man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend, held her and her four children hostage, then shot himself in the head following a multi-county police chase has died, authorities announced Monday, Oct. 12. Tobias John-Allen Click, of Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, was pronounced dead at approximately 8:25 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, by the Cumberland County Coroner's Office, according to an update from East Lampeter Township Police. Click died from injuries sustained from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said. His death came one d…
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Sixth Measles Death Reported In PA As Outbreak Tops 1,100 Cases
A 39-year-old woman with a recent measles diagnosis has become the US's sixth measles-associated death as the outbreak climbed past 1,100 cases in Pennsylvania. The woman died Saturday, Oct. 10, the Franklin County Coroner’s Office announced Monday, Oct. 12. She had several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles that had been treated, the coroner said. Her death meets the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s definition of a measles-associated death, according to the advisory. The coroner’s office did not release her name or further details that could identify…
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: 'Sadie Didn't Need To Die,' PA Man Says In Final Video Before Fatal SEPTA Standoff
WARNING: The video accompanying this article contains profanity and disturbing statements about a double homicide. Viewer discretion is advised. A Philadelphia man who died following an approximately 11-hour armed standoff aboard a SEPTA bus recorded a disturbing Facebook story in which he said his adoptive mother "didn't need to die" after she and his biological sister were found shot inside their burning home on Monday, Oct. 12. Lonnie Turner, identified by family members on social media, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the standoff in the city's Fox Chase section, Phila…
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Montco Amtrak Worker Pocketed $181K In Massive Fraud Scheme, Threatened To Kill Provider
At least 119 Amtrak employees across seven states and Washington, D.C., were implicated in a $12 million health care fraud scheme — the largest employee criminal conspiracy in the railroad's history, federal investigators said. Three men connected to the scheme, including a Pennsylvania Amtrak employee and two New York medical providers, were sentenced in federal court in New Jersey on Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Thursday, Oct. 8, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The defendants were Devon Burt, 53, of Blue Bell, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Michael DeNicola, 64, a former New York pod…
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PA Family Massacre IDs: Pregnant Mom, 2 Kids, Parents, Brothers, Baby Due In 5 Days
A family preparing to welcome a baby boy in just five days was nearly wiped out in a mass shooting that killed three generations of relatives, including a pregnant mother, her two young children, her parents, and her two brothers, according to family accounts. Angelina Stone, 24, also known online as Dej Shanti, was eight months pregnant with a son she planned to name Kyrie when she was killed alongside her 5-year-old son, Isiah Hodges, and her 22-month-old daughter, Amari'anna, in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Oct. 9. Her mother, Michelle Stone, 44, and brothers Matthew Stone II, 19, and …
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3-Year-Old Killed Days Before Birthday; Pregnant Woman, Boy Hurt In PA E-Bike Fire: Reports
A 3-year-old girl just days away from celebrating her fourth birthday was killed when an e-bike battery sparked a fire inside a Pennsylvania rowhome early Sunday morning, Oct. 11, leaving a pregnant woman, a young boy, and another woman hospitalized, according to fire officials and media reports. The fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. in the 3300 block of D Street in Philadelphia's Fairhill neighborhood, where firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the second floor of a two-story rowhome, the Philadelphia Fire Department said. Firefighters rescued the 3-year-old g…
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PA Man, 22, Killed In Shooting After Delaware State University Homecoming: Police
A 22-year-old man was killed, and another man was wounded when gunfire erupted amid crowds of thousands following Delaware State University's homecoming celebrations Saturday night, Oct. 10, police said. The fatal shooting happened around 9:19 p.m. in the Dover Commons shopping center parking lot in the 1200 block of North DuPont Highway in Dover, Delaware, according to a release from the Dover Police Department issued Sunday, Oct. 11. The man killed was identified as Nasir Cox, 22, of Philadelphia, police said. A 21-year-old man was also shot in his upper body and remained hospitalized in…
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PA Monkey Torture Ring Member Sentenced For 'Agonizing' Abuse Videos As Another Awaits Fate
A member of an online monkey torture ring involving a Pennsylvania man who collected money to fund videos depicting the mutilation of baby monkeys has been sentenced to federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday, Oct. 9. Amanda Leigh Fourez, of Catlin, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday, Oct. 8, to 31 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for distributing and conspiring to create so-called "animal crush" videos, according to federal prosecutors. Fourez was a member of online groups that included Joseph Garrett Buckland, of Mount Pleasant, Penns…
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Abington Army Veteran, SEPTA Bus Driver Gunned Down On Route, Killer Sentenced
A 24-year-old Philadelphia woman who shot and killed a U.S. Army veteran while he was driving a SEPTA bus has been sentenced nearly three years after the murder that left a family grieving and prompted calls for stronger protections for public transit workers. Zhontay Capers was sentenced to 32½ to 67 years in state prison on Friday, Oct. 9, for the Oct. 26, 2023, murder of Bernard Nicholas Gribbin, 48, of Abington, Pennsylvania, according to Philadelphia County court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Saturday, Oct. 10. Gribbin, a 12-year SEPTA employee and Army combat veteran originally…
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Train That Left Philadelphia Kills Man In South Jersey, NJ Transit Says
A man was struck and killed by an NJ Transit train that had left Pennsylvania, near the Atco station in Camden County on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10, authorities said. At 3:25 p.m., Atlantic City Rail Line train 4679 struck the man near the Atco Avenue, NJ Transit Media Relations Director John Chartier said. The train had departed Philadelphia at 2:31 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Atlantic City at 4:06 p.m., Chartier said. None of the 80 passengers or crew members aboard were injured, NJ Transit said, Chartier said. Service was suspended in both directions between Hammonton and Linde…
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