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Twenty PA Hospitals Named Among America's Best In New Report Twenty PA Hospitals Named Among America's Best In New Report
Twenty PA Hospitals Named Among America's Best In New Report Twenty Pennsylvania hospitals earned a spot in America’s 250 Best Hospitals list for 2023 by Healthgrades.com. The rankings are based on procedure performance, potential risks, predicted outcomes and comparing those predictive outcomes to actual outcomes. You can read more about their methodology here. The following hospitals ranked in the top 50 nationwide. These "are in the top 1% of hospitals in the nation for consistently providing overall clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of conditions and procedures year over year." This ranking means these PA hospitals are the top four in t…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Birthday Boy Shoots Chesco Man In Drunken Brawl, DA Says Birthday Boy Shoots Chesco Man In Drunken Brawl, DA Says
Birthday Boy Shoots Chesco Man In Drunken Brawl, DA Says A West Chester man spent his birthday behind bars after authorities say he shot and wounded another during a booze-fueled fight downtown.  Vaughn Yanko had just turned 22 when he left a bar with a group of people in the early morning hours on Sunday, Jan. 22, said the Chester County District Attorney's Office in a statement.  At around 2 a.m., Yanko's group got into a "verbal altercation" with another group over "a girl and a football game" in front of the Historic Chester County Courthouse on North High Street, the DA's Office said. Both groups had been drinking at separate bars …

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Arrest Made In Delco Gas Station Stabbing Arrest Made In Delco Gas Station Stabbing
Arrest Made In Delco Gas Station Stabbing A suspect has been arrested in connection to the stabbing of a man Saturday, June 25 at a gas station in Delaware County, authorities said. Responding officers discovered the victim around 10:40 p.m. at the Exxon gas station on Baltimore Avenue in East Lansdowne, local police said. The victim was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he is expected to survive, East Lansdowne police said. An investigation revealed that the incident was captured on surveillance video, leading officers to identify the suspect as 27-year-old William T. Smith Jr., of Lansdowne, they said. …

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
MA Man Kills PA Mom In Front Of Kids, Shoots Himself: DA MA Man Kills PA Mom In Front Of Kids, Shoots Himself: DA
MA Man Kills PA Mom In Front Of Kids, Shoots Himself: DA A Massachusetts man shot and killed a Pennsylvania mom of two Wednesday, June 8 before shooting himself during a domestic dispute, authorities said. Police responding to a call of a suicidal person inside a Clark Court home in Northampton Township found Samantha J. Rementer, 31, dead and Thadius W. McGrath, 35, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face around 5 p.m., Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. Rementer lived with her two children, one 4 and the other nearly a year old, authorities said. Cops were met by the 4-year-old child who had ope…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Gunman Fired 30+ Rounds From AR-15 Killing 35-Year-Old Female Victim In DelCo: Police Gunman Fired 30+ Rounds From AR-15 Killing 35-Year-Old Female Victim In DelCo: Police
Gunman Fired 30+ Rounds From AR-15 Killing 35-Year-Old Female Victim In DelCo: Police One woman was killed when a Delaware County man fired a rifle from outside his house into the surrounding neighborhood, authorities said. The situation unfolded around 2 a.m, Sunday, Feb. 13, when Yousuf Bahal began firing an AR-15 rifle in front of his Penn Boulevard home in East Lansdowne, local police said. Responding officers saw 30-year-old Bahal open fire and confronted him, East Lansdowne police said. He later dropped the gun and was arrested, they said. As police were securing the area, they learned that more than 30 rounds had been fired, and found a 35-year-old neighbor…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Philly Man Didn't Have License For Gun He Used To Shoot Attempted Carjacker Who Died: Police Philly Man Didn't Have License For Gun He Used To Shoot Attempted Carjacker Who Died: Police
Philly Man Didn't Have License For Gun He Used To Shoot Attempted Carjacker Who Died: Police A 54-year-old Philadelphia man didn't have a license for his gun, which he used to shoot and kill a man who tried to carjack him, authorities said. Steven Thompson shot one of three men who approached him and tried to carjack him on the 5800 block of Cobbs Creek Pkwy. just after 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, city police said. The victim fled westbound in his own Grey Honda Accord on Cobbs Creek Parkway, where he crashed into a school bus, according to police. The man was then taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and pronounced dead just after 9 a.m., police said. His name had not yet been releas…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Driver Airlifted From Crash Scene On Route 422 In Montgomery County Driver Airlifted From Crash Scene On Route 422 In Montgomery County
Driver Airlifted From Crash Scene On Route 422 In Montgomery County A driver was airlifted after their car flipped on Route 422 in Montgomery County on Sunday night, authorities said. Rescue crews with the Black Rock Volunteer Fire Company and Collegeville Fire Company were called to Route 422 eastbound at mile marker 185.3 around 10:05 p.m. on a report of a driver trapped in an overturned car blocking both lanes, fire officials said. Additional crews with the Royersford Fire Department were called to the scene to assist with the driver rescue. The driver was airlifted by PENNSTAR to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center with unknown injuries. Route 422 at Rou…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Penn State Student, 20, Dies At Hospital From COVID-19 Penn State Student, 20, Dies At Hospital From COVID-19
Penn State Student, 20, Dies At Hospital From Covid-19 A second Pennsylvania State University student has died of COVID-19. Neil Chetan Patel, 20, of King of Prussia, died at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia on Sunday. Neil Chetan Patel.Facebook- Neil Patel Patel contracted coronavirus at the end of March 2021, just days before the state's phased vaccine rollout changed so everyone over 18-years-old could vaccinate, not just elderly, immunocompromised and frontline workers. He was placed on a ventilator April 11. Shortly after, a GoFundMe campaign page was launched to help cover the cost of his mounting medical bills. An …

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
NJ Woman Plows Into 4 First Responders, Killing Firefighter At Scene Of I-76 DUI Crash NJ Woman Plows Into 4 First Responders, Killing Firefighter At Scene Of I-76 DUI Crash
NJ Woman Plows Into 4 First Responders, Killing Firefighter At Scene Of I-76 DUI Crash A firefighter was killed and three other first responders injured when a New Jersey woman plowed into them at the scene of a DUI crash on Interstate 76 in Pennsylvania early Saturday morning. Troopers and firefighters were at the scene of a crash involving a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu and 2017 Nissan Altima in the right shoulder of the westbound side around 3:05 a.m., PSP Trooper William Butler said. That's when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Jacquelyn Walker, of Pemberton, drove up the right shoulder hitting a state trooper, the Altima and three firefighters from Belmont Hills and Gladwyne fi…

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by Cecilia Levine