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Man Steals Police Cruiser, Tries To Run Down Officer Before Shooting In PA: Prosecutors
A man is facing multiple felony charges after authorities say he stole a police cruiser, threatened to shoot officers, crashed during a getaway, broke into a home, and then tried to run down an officer before he was shot in Pennsylvania, prosecutors announced Thursday, July 16.
Joshua McFadden, 40, of Pottstown, was charged with attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, robbery of a motor vehicle, burglary, fleeing and eluding police, terroristic threats, possession of methamphetamine, DUI, and numerous related offenses following the June 22 incident, according to the Cheste…
Birthday Celebration Ends In Prison For PA Drunk Driver Who Left Woman In Coma
A man who celebrated his birthday by drinking before getting behind the wheel and leaving a young woman with catastrophic injuries in a hit-and-run has learned his fate, prosecutors announced Thursday, July 16.
Leroy Mendez, of Bethlehem, was sentenced on Wednesday, July 15, after being found guilty in April of aggravated assault, aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, accidents involving death or personal injury, insurance fraud, DUI, and related offenses, according to the Northampton County District Attorney's Office.
The case stemmed from a hit-and-run on the unit block of East 4th St…
Kardashian Bodyguard Killed In Motorcycle Crash Days Before 53rd Birthday
Celebrity bodyguard Mason Haynes, who worked with high-profile clients including the Kardashians, was killed in a motorcycle crash on July 4, just two days before his 53rd birthday.
A GoFundMe campaign started by Annabel Bass says Haynes was killed in the Saturday, July 4, crash, leaving behind his wife, Fay, and children, Brooke and Noah. Details of the crash were not immediately clear.
As news of his death spread, friends, colleagues, and former clients remembered the man they say made everyone around him feel safe.
"The world has been robbed of that rare thing… a genuinely good man."
Th…
'I Killed Everyone I Love': Triple Homicide Suspect Told PA Troopers, Affidavit (Update)
A 29-year-old man accused of killing his uncle and two friends in a Pennsylvania home told State Police, "I killed everyone I love," as troopers took him into custody, according to an affidavit obtained by Daily Voice.
Pennsylvania State Police responded to a home on Baptist Hill Road in Great Bend Township, Susquehanna County at approximately 6 p.m. Monday, July 13, for a reported shooting. Inside, troopers found three men dead from gunshot wounds, police said.
The victims were identified as Philip Johnson, 53, of Hallstead; Kevin Igo, 38, of Susquehanna; and Frank Talarico Jr., 29, of Bin…
Woman ID'd In Fatal PA House Fire After Autopsy
The woman killed in a Pennsylvania house fire has been identified after her autopsy was completed, authorities announced Wednesday, July 15,.
Hanh T. Phan, 68, of Allentown, was pronounced dead at 10:38 a.m. Tuesday, July 14, at the scene of the fire in the 400 block of North Jerome Street, the Lehigh County Coroner's Office said. She was removed from the residence by the Allentown Fire Department.
The Lehigh County Coroner's Office had withheld Phan's identity Tuesday until her next of kin had been notified and an autopsy could be completed.
That autopsy, performed Wednesday, determined …
Motorcyclist Killed After Losing Control On Route 222 In Pennsylvania
A motorcyclist was killed after losing control and crashing on Route 222 in Pennsylvania, authorities announced Wednesday, July 15.
Deivid J. Infante, 32, of Kutztown, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at 8:55 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, on Route 222 northbound about a half-mile north of Mill Creek Road in Lower Macungie Township, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office.
Infante was operating a motorcycle when it left the roadway, lost control, and crashed, the coroner said.
Infante was traveling north in the left lane of Route 222 while negotiating a left-hand curve at…
NJ Family Dead In NY Plane Crash: State Police
A 2-year-old New Jersey girl, her mother, and her grandfather pilot were killed in a small plane crash just after taking off from the Adirondack Regional Airport in New York this week.
Guiliana Hillgrube, her 33-year-old mother Gabriella, and her 70-year-old grandfather Gabriele Jasper, were identified on Wednesday, July 15 as the victims of the crash two days prior, according to New York State Police.
Jasper, a Brick Township-based spine doctor and Toms River resident, was piloting the plane, police said. Hillgrube and her daughter, of Forked River, were passengers. Less than two week…
Husband's Plea For ICE Help Backfires After Internet Connects The Dots To Jersey Shore Assault
Matthew Geroni turned to TikTok, hoping strangers would help save his wife from ICE custody. Instead, they reminded him why she was there, and with little sympathy.
Gerroni, of Brick Township, filmed a TikTok video of himself crying as he drove just after his wife, Kaitlyn Tracey, had been arrested after police said she hit a child in an argument over patriotic sweatpants on the Point Pleasant boardwalk. The sweatpants had the words "ICE" and "Trump" on them, according to NJ Advance Media.
In his video, Geroni explained that Tracey, a 33-year-old Canadian national, was being detai…
Dark Skies, Bright Streaks: Perseid Meteor Shower Starts With Spectacular Peak Coming
A stunning spectacle is beginning to stir just as the summer night sky offers a timely assist.
The moon turns new on Tuesday, July 14, creating dark conditions as Earth enters the outer edge of the Perseid meteor shower's debris stream, according to Space.com. A few early streaks could become visible that night.
The shower's formal activity period runs from Friday, July 17, through Monday, Aug. 24, the International Meteor Organization said. Rates will begin to rise slowly over the coming weeks.
The main event is expected overnight from Wednesday, Aug. 12, into Thursday, Aug. 13. That afte…
LI Powerlifter’s Social Media Flexes Exposed $100K Disability Fraud: Authorities
A Long Island powerlifter bilked more than $100,000 through disability payments while competing in professional competitions, authorities said.
Raymond Phillips, 40, of Huntington Station, pulled off the fraud between 2021 and 2024, the New York Attorney General’s office said.
Phillips said he suffered a serious injury while weightlifting in 2018, rendering him unable to work or perform routine activities without help, investigators said. He applied for state disability payments and was approved in May 2021, according to authorities.
But by 2021, Phillips was perfectly capable of working a…
Business Owner ID'd As Man Killed In Route 22/322 Crash: PA State Police (Update)
A central Pennsylvania furniture store owner was killed after his SUV went airborne, struck an embankment several times, and rolled down a hill along Route 22/322, Pennsylvania State Police announced Tuesday, July 14.
Jack E. Curren, 82, of Strasburg, was driving a 2021 Ford Explorer west on US 322 in Watts Township, Perry County, when the vehicle left the left side of the roadway for unknown reasons at approximately 3:14 p.m. Monday, July 13, police said.
The Explorer traveled off an embankment, went airborne, and struck the embankment several more times before rolling down the hill, accor…
