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COLD CASE: More Questions Than Answers In Philly Girl's 1985 Disappearance COLD CASE: More Questions Than Answers In Philly Girl's 1985 Disappearance
Cold CASE: More Questions Than Answers In Philly Girl's 1985 Disappearance Nearly 40 years after she was last seen, police are still working to establish the basic facts in the disappearance of 3-year-old Jeanine Barnwell.  Barnwell was reported missing on Nov. 15, 1985, but investigators have long suspected she vanished before that day, according to Pennsylvania State Police.  She was last seen by her mother and is said to have gone missing from her Germantown home at 5169 Wakefield Street.  Many circumstances surrounding her disappearance are still unknown, but initial investigators suspected foul play, according to missing persons database …

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by Mac Bullock
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Woman, 21, Charged In SEPTA Driver's Deadly Shooting Woman, 21, Charged In SEPTA Driver's Deadly Shooting
Woman, 21, Charged In SEPTA Driver's Deadly Shooting The woman accused of killing a SEPTA bus driver on his route Thursday morning, Oct. 26 now faces murder charges, according to authorities.  Twenty-one-year-old Zhontay Capers was arrested by plainclothes SEPTA police officers less than a mile from the scene of the shooting, officials said. No weapon was recovered from her person.  Authorities said Route 23 driver Bernard Gribbin was shot in the torso and throat around 10:30 a.m. near Germantown and East Abottsford avenues.  He later died from his wounds at Einstein Medical Center.  Gribbin, a 48-year-old Abington resident, was a 12-year …

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by Mac Bullock
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Trio Used Soldier's Stolen ID To Buy Guns Illegally: PA Prosecutors Trio Used Soldier's Stolen ID To Buy Guns Illegally: PA Prosecutors
Trio Used Soldier's Stolen ID To Buy Guns Illegally: PA Prosecutors Three men are charged in connection with a scheme to use a US soldier's stolen identity to buy guns illegally, according to authorities.  Taalibudeen “Taalib” Ibn Hasdn Anderson, 22, and Tariq Anderson, 23, both of Philadelphia, and Daijon Griffin, 21, of Wilmington, Delaware, are each in police custody, said Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele's Office.  It began in Apil, prosecutors said, when an active duty Army serviceman visited his mother in Philly while on leave, the DA's Office said.  The soldier lost both his Pennsylvania driver's license and his U…

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Philly Gas Station Blares Opera Music At Night In Viral Video Philly Gas Station Blares Opera Music At Night In Viral Video
Philly Gas Station Blares Opera Music At Night In Viral Video Germantown residents were lulled to sleep on Valentine's Day by the sweet sound of opera music coming from the Speedway gas station on Chelten Avenue as the clock struck midnight. Footage of the corner store's interesting choice of ambiance has gone viral on Reddit, in a video that claims it's the station's tactic to keep away homeless residents.  "This is a common act for stores to do this as a hostile reaction to houseless neighbors," one resident opined in a Facebook group. "The lights and music deter them from being able to sleep at night so they're pushed away to find new spa…

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by Mac Bullock
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Philly Police ID Temple Home Invasion Suspect (UPDATE) Philly Police ID Temple Home Invasion Suspect (UPDATE)
Philly Police ID Temple Home Invasion Suspect (Update) A suspect connected to two home invasion robberies near Temple University has been arrested, according to Philadelphia police.  Nasir Johnson, 25, of Germantown, faces multiple felony charges including kidnapping, terroristic threats, and burglary, authorities told Daily Voice.  Johnson was taken into custody Monday, Nov. 21 on the 4900 block of Royal Street, after officers found him driving a stolen car, police said.  As Daily Voice has reported, two men entered a student house on the 1300 block of North 15th Street at about 6 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11. They rounded up 1…

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by Mac Bullock