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Bucks Coroner IDs Bicyclist Killed In Labor Day Crash Bucks Coroner IDs Bicyclist Killed In Labor Day Crash
Bucks Coroner IDs Bicyclist Killed In Labor Day Crash Authorities have identified the man hit and killed on New Falls Road in Levittown on Monday, Sept. 4, as 64-year-old Francisco Chavarria of Bristol.  Chavarria died from multiple injuries, said the Bucks County Coroner's Office. The manner of death was ruled accidental.  It happened near the intersection with Vermillion Drive, Falls Township police previously said. Chavarria was hit by a Nissan Rogue around 7 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene, according to authorities.  The driver of the Nissan, a 21-year-old Morrisville resident, remained on-scene and is cooperatin…

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by Mac Bullock
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Philly Immigrant Killed In Motorcycle Crash Worked Hard For His Family Back Home, Friends Say Philly Immigrant Killed In Motorcycle Crash Worked Hard For His Family Back Home, Friends Say
Philly Immigrant Killed In Motorcycle Crash Worked Hard For His Family Back Home, Friends Say Leonel Ortega, a Guatemalan-born Philadelphia resident and beloved highrise window washer, died in a motorcycle accident on his way to work on Wednesday, June 7, his colleagues say. He was 22.  Ortega "meant a lot to us and everyone else that knew him," said Anthony Zurzolo, his coworker at Premier Window Cleaning in Port Richmond.  "He was a very hard worker that wanted everything to help his family," Zurzolo wrote in a tribute on social media. "Always smiling and just a great guy to be around." The Premier Window team also memorialized the late 22-year-old, who they said was "a member o…

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by Mac Bullock
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El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case
El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case Four sons of notorious druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman are among more than two dozen members of Mexico's reigning Sinaloa cartel charged in a massive fentanyl-trafficking offensive announced by federal officials on Friday. The infamous quartet known as the Chapitos – each of whom had $5 million U.S. bounties placed on their heads – were dubbed “the pioneers” of fentanyl’s introduction to American users by DEA Administrator Anne Milgram during an April 14 news conference in Washington, D.C. “Death and destruction are central to their whole operation,” said Milgram, a former New Jersey a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PA Mom Dies During Mission Trip In Guatemala, Family Says PA Mom Dies During Mission Trip In Guatemala, Family Says
PA Mom Dies During Mission Trip In Guatemala, Family Says Thousands poured into the streets of of San Cristobal Verapaz, Guatemala to honor the life of a 27-year-old Pennsylvania mother of two boys (both under two years of age) on March 19, 2023, those who knew her told Daily Voice. Rocio "Rose" Michelle Roberts.GoFundMe/Diane Ramirez Rocio "Rose" Michelle Roberts passed suddenly on March 15, 2023, according to her sister in-law Diana Ramirez. Posted by Christian Roberts on Thursday, March 23, 2023 "Rose’s mother is from Harrisburg, PA and her father is from Guatemala," where she in the small town of San Cristobal Verapaz with her family o…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support
Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support The Trenton community has come together to support a local family after the unexpected death of their beloved 14-year-old daughter from cardiac arrest. Heidy N. Cortez Cruz died on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in a Trenton hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest, according to a GoFundMe created for the family. The funds will be used to “return her body and give her the last goodbye in her native country [of] Guatemala,” reads the campaign, launched by Fatima Marroquin. Nearly $4,500 had been raised before the fundraiser had stopped accepting donations. Meanwhile, a viewing will be held at …

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by Valerie Musson
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Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bucks Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA Bucks Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA
Bucks Rapist Who Abused Little Boys For Years Gets Prison Time: DA A 28-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 19 to 40 years in state prison on Wednesday, April 6, for the repeated rapes of two boys in Bucks County, authorities said. Rosalio Suchite, of Warrington, pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2021, to two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a child, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Suchite was charged in November 2020 following an investigation by the Warrington Township Police Department, which discovered that he sexually abused the boys, ages 7 and 9, at his home on the 2200 block of Pileggi Road for at least three ye…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Avondale Man Arrested For Selling $22K Worth Of Meth, DA Says Avondale Man Arrested For Selling $22K Worth Of Meth, DA Says
Avondale Man Arrested For Selling $22K Worth Of Meth, DA Says An Avondale man was arrested last week for reportedly selling $22,000 worth of methamphetamine, authorities said. Darinel Lucas-Gomez, 28, sold methamphetamine on two occasions, an eighth of an ounce on March 29 and six and a half ounces on March 30, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s office. When authorities arrested him in his Avondale apartment on March 30, they discovered an additional 11 ounces in his possession and $3,000 in cash, the DA's office said. Authorities valued the drugs at $22,000. Lucas-Gomez is a Guatemalan national who, when arrested, was wea…

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by Nicole Acosta