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$90K+ Raised For PA Family After Fatal Hit-Run I-95 Crash $90K+ Raised For PA Family After Fatal Hit-Run I-95 Crash
$90K+ Raised For PA Family After Fatal Hit-Run I-95 Crash A community is mourning their loss after a 32-year-old woman died due to a traumatic brain injury following a hit-run crash on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.  Tess Kathryn Fox, most recently of Springfield, Pennsylvania but formerly of West Deptford, New Jersey, died on Saturday, Sept. 14 as a result of the crash on Interstate 95 near Philadelphia International Airport on Saturday, Sept. 7,  Pennsylvania State Police told Daily Voice on Thursday, Sept. 19, and as detailed in obituary published by McGuinness Funeral Homes. She was an organ donor, according to the obituary.&nbs…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Philadelphia Man Among 2 Charged In Kidnapping Of UDel Student Philadelphia Man Among 2 Charged In Kidnapping Of UDel Student
Philadelphia Man Among 2 Charged In Kidnapping Of UDel Student A Philadelphia resident was one of two men charged with trying to kidnap a University of Delaware student from her off-campus apartment, authorities said. The victim had recently met Rene Villate Umpierre, 20, and invited him inside on Saturday night, several news outlets report citing Newark, DE police. Umpierre went inside as Keniel Rivera Peraza, 24, of Elkton, MD, waited outside in a car, authorities said. Umpierre eventually became aggressive while inside, strangling the woman and trying to remove her from a bedroom of a resident at a student-housing complex on Hamlet Way aro…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
No One Is Giving Your Kids Pot Edibles For Halloween -- Even If They Ask For It No One Is Giving Your Kids Pot Edibles For Halloween -- Even If They Ask For It
No One Is Giving Your Kids Pot Edibles For Halloween -- Even If They Ask For It Halloween 2021 is bringing the usual warnings from authorities to be on the lookout for nefarious strangers giving kids pot edibles that look like candy -- but how much of it is (a) based in reality and how much is (b) fear mongering? The answers: (a) none of it and (b) all of it. The true danger lies in people believing urban legends, says Snopes.com, a site dedicated to debunking them.  “You are more likely to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times than you are to find marijuana edibles in your children’s Halloween candy,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri told Marijuana …

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Halloween Hysteria: C'mon, Do You Really Think Anyone's Giving Trick-Or-Treaters Pot Edibles? Halloween Hysteria: C'mon, Do You Really Think Anyone's Giving Trick-Or-Treaters Pot Edibles?
Halloween Hysteria: C'mon, Do You Really Think Anyone's Giving Trick-Or-Treaters Pot Edibles? Halloween 2021 is bringing the usual nationwide warnings from authorities to be on the lookout for nefarious strangers giving kids pot edibles that look like candy -- but how much of it is (a) based in reality and how much is (b) fear mongering? The answers: (a) none of it and (b) all of it. The true danger lies in people believing urban legends, says Snopes.com, a site dedicated to debunking them.  “You are more likely to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times than you are to find marijuana edibles in your children’s Halloween candy,” NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri told…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Court Rules In Life Insurance Dispute Of Deadly PA Love Triangle Court Rules In Life Insurance Dispute Of Deadly PA Love Triangle
Court Rules In Life Insurance Dispute Of Deadly PA Love Triangle The ex-husband of a Pennsylvania woman killed by her lover's wife in a murder-suicide must relinquish the proceeds he received from her individual life insurance policies -- but can keep the proceeds from her group plan, a Delaware judge has ruled. The issues in the case involving Meredith Sullivan, 33, and her ex-husband, Luke Chapman, had never been address by a Delaware court before. Sullivan, 33, was killed at her Radnor Township home in April 2018 by Jennair Gerardot, the wife of a man with whom she had been having an affair with. Gerardot then turned the gun on herself, and the two we…

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
West Chester Native, Georgia Grab Dies After 'Hard Fought' Battle With Cancer, 23 West Chester Native, Georgia Grab Dies After 'Hard Fought' Battle With Cancer, 23
West Chester Native, Georgia Grab Dies After 'Hard Fought' Battle With Cancer, 23 West Chester native, Georgia Reagan Grab died after a "hard-fought" battle with bile duct cancer on May 3. She was 23. Grab attended Henderson High School in West Chester, and later earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 2020, according to her obituary. Most recently, she worked as a Residential Behavioral Assistant at Upper Bay Counseling and Support, and was studying for her Master’s degree at Capella University, her obit says. She was remembered as someone who wanted to become a clinical psychologist for young adults who suffer from mental illne…

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by Nicole Acosta