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  • 1 week ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Claudia Vargas |David Chang

    On March 28, 1979, 17-year-old Holly Branagan was found dead with a knife sticking out of her back in the kitchen of her family's home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She had been stabbed 18 times.

  • 1 week ago | caracol.com.co | Claudia Vargas

  • 2 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Claudia Vargas

    In the fall of 2021, Eric Williams was driving his two elementary-aged daughters to a back-to-school event when he came to a stop at a traffic light. “A second later, I heard a boom force which shot me into the middle of the intersection,” he said. A Philadelphia Police officer driving a marked SUV rear-ended him, totaling his car. Williams and his daughters went to the hospital instead of the school event. Williams said the girls were shaken up, but OK physically. He had neck and back pain.

  • 3 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Claudia Vargas |Ali Ingersoll

    For Carla Sofronski, her work in the opioid crisis is personal. "A few times a year, I have to tell families that their loved ones passed away and it is very difficult to do," she told NBC10 Investigators. And the sense of loss does not stop with the people she helps through her organization, the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Network, which does advocacy and education in the state for programs like Narcan, fentanyl testing strip distribution and syringe exchanges.

  • 4 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Claudia Vargas

    Tonya Kersey was at a medical appointment on the afternoon of March 20, 2025, when a neighbor called her to say that her son, Aaron Rainey, was walking in between traffic naked with his pants around his ankles. She asked her neighbor to help him. "She went down there and got a blanket and told him to cover himself up and fix his clothes and stuff," Kersey said. By then, police had already been called.

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Claudia Vargas
Claudia Vargas @ByClaudiaVargas
8 May 25

RT @NBCPhiladelphia: The body-worn camera of a Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed Aaron Rainey outside Friends Hospital in Mar…

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Claudia Vargas @ByClaudiaVargas
24 Apr 25

RT @NBCPhiladelphia: A special task force is working to uncover what caused the massive Jones Road Wildfire in Ocean County. @ByClaudiaVarg…

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Claudia Vargas @ByClaudiaVargas
23 Apr 25

Waiting to get the latest on NJ Wildfires. Tune into @NBCPhiladelphia https://t.co/exkCAvATq4