A 15-year-old girl was learning how to drive in a Philadelphia shopping center parking lot Monday night when she reportedly struck and killed two homeless men sitting outside a store. According to KTRK, the teen was driving a Ford Explorer in the Port Richmond area when she mowed over two men outside of a Dollar …
A Memorial Day weekend trip to a New Jersey beach placed one Pennsylvania woman at the center of the latest case of alleged police brutality caught on video. As WPVI reported, 20-year-old Emily Weinman, of Philadelphia, was on a beach in Wildwood, N.J., when officers attempted to detain her on suspicion of criminal conduct including …
A kindergarten student in Pennsylvania reportedly found a bag of cocaine in a classmate’s backpack this week and began chewing on it in the belief that it was sugar. According to WPVI, a teacher saw the 6-year-old girl with the bag in her mouth. After suspecting it contained narcotics, she sent both students to the …
A Pennsylvania woman is crediting the handgun she keeps on the nightstand by her bed for giving her the upper hand when an intruder startled her awake early Saturday morning. As she revealed in an interview with KYW, 70-year-old Maxine Thompson described hearing her back window crash as someone broke in her Philadelphia home at …
A judge has reportedly upheld all charges against a man accused of slaying Temple University student Jenna Burleigh. Neighbor Noelle Sterling was one of 10 witnesses who testified during Wednesday’s preliminary hearing. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sterling, who lived above the suspect, recalled hearing banging at around 2:15 a.m. on August 31 and called Temple Police. …
A Philadelphia man was arrested Tuesday after police say he stabbed a teenage girl 80 times then tried to cover up the murder by setting her body on fire. Cole Swaringer-Herring, 23, is facing charges of murder, abuse of a corpse, and arson, among other charges. He had met 15-year-old Sabriya McLean on Facebook, and the …
When an alleged shoplifter got locked inside a Philadelphia convenience store, a brawl ensued when a responding police officer tried to detain her. Philly Voice reports that in a viral video posted on Facebook on Tuesday, two women accused of destroying items made an attempt to leave a Philadelphia 7-Eleven store off of the 5000 block …
A body recovered from the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia on Thursday was identified as a businessman featured on an episode of “Shark Tank.” WPSG reported that Philip Reitnour’s body was discovered shortly before 11 a.m. near the Walnut Street Bridge. Reitnour, 58, founded Emergensee, a smartphone app that allows a user to send real-time video, …
A Philadelphia man has been accused of murdering and raping his 1-year-old stepson. The man also has an unsettling past, filled with criminal activity, according to CBS Philadelphia. Saleem Salaam, 24, was arrested and given multiple felony charges when police responded to a report of an unresponsive child on Wednesday afternoon. Salaam, 24, told them there …
