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6 days ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
A community gathered in grief, sending balloons and prayers into the sky on Friday as Philadelphia police continue to search for the people behind the deadly Memorial Day shooting in Fairmount Park. James Hargrove sat on the steps of a house where his 21-year-old grandson, Mikhail Bowers, had grown up years ago in North Philadelphia. "I'm hurting, but I can't cry. I've been crying too much," said Hargrove.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
Philadelphia pastor who works with teens says listening, understanding are key to stopping violence It's Dr. Damone Jones' life's work and passion to help young people in the criminal justice system, many charged as adults. He's the senior pastor of Bible Way Baptist Church and president of the BrothaHood Foundation, a basketball mentoring organization that goes to Philadelphia prisons.
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2 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | Nikki DeMentri |Jim McHugh
From the Jersey Shore to the Poconos, thousands of people were on the roads Friday in the Philadelphia area. "It's (traffic) pretty crazy. There's a lot of people everywhere!" Joshua Filzer said at the King of Prussia Service Plaza. On 76, it was stop-and-go traffic Friday night, and it looked the same from Chopper 3 over the Atlantic City Expressway. Filzer was hoping to avoid the backups. "Uh, we tried, but it's easier said than done," a dad from North Jersey said.
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2 weeks ago | 
local21news.com | Laura Fay |Jim McHugh
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (KYW) — A medical helicopter landed on the lawn of a home in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, Monday evening, Montgomery County officials said. No one was injured in the emergency landing that happened just after 7:40 p.m. on Musket Road near Cannon Hill Road, officials said. "We got very lucky tonight, it's a miracle," Whitemarsh Police Chief Christopher Ward said. "The pilot did an amazing job from all accounts.
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1 month ago | 
local21news.com | Tom Dougherty |Siafa Lewis |Jim McHugh
An officer is in critical condition after he was shot while police were breaking up a large fight outside Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said. The officer was shot once in the stomach and is recovering at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
Princeton Bailey went viral mimicking José Alvarado's every move in the Philadelphia Phillies' win on Tuesday night against the Washington Nationals. While Alvarado pitched a scoreless eighth inning to help the Phillies in their 7-6 victory over Washington, Bailey was captured on the broadcast copying the pitcher's movements, imagining he, too, was on the mound. "I did the same move," Bailey said. Then, both Bailey and Alvarado celebrate getting out of the inning alive.
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1 month ago | 
channel3000.com | Jessica MacAulay |Jim McHugh |Aziza Shuler
Click here for updates on this story EMMAUS, Pennsylvania (KYW) -- A bridge in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, collapsed while a propane truck was crossing it Tuesday afternoon. The Sharp Energy truck tried to cross the narrow wooden bridge connecting Orchid Place in Emmaus to the Wildlands Conservancy. As the truck pulled onto the deck, the section between the entrance and the first pier collapsed into Little Lehigh Creek.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kerri Corrado |Jim McHugh
Pennsylvania family preparing for trip to Rome remembers Pope Francis, hopes to pay respects to him The Cellucci family is getting ready for a trip they will remember forever. The family from Malvern, Pennsylvania, has been planning a trip to Rome for the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 at 15 years old, for a year. After Pope Francis died, the Vatican postponed the canonization, but the trip is still on.
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2 months ago | 
kesq.com | Tom Ignudo |Nikki DeMentri |Atheer Hussein |Jim McHugh
By Tom Ignudo, Nikki DeMentri, Atheer Hussein, Jim McHugh, Siafa LewisClick here for updates on this story Pennsylvania ( KYW) - Amtrak service between Philadelphia and New York was halted for hours Thursday evening after three family members were fatally struck by a train near Bristol Station in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, officials said. CBS News Philadelphia spoke to the wife of one of the victims who said her husband, his brother and their father were all killed.
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2 months ago | 
local21news.com | Tom Ignudo |Nikki DeMentri |Atheer Hussein |Jim McHugh
CBS PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Amtrak service between Philadelphia and New York was halted for hours Thursday evening after three family members were fatally struck by a train near Bristol Station in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, officials said. CBS News Philadelphia spoke to the wife of one of the victims who said her husband, his brother and their father were all killed. She said they come from a big family, and this is a huge loss everyone is trying to process.
