Kristen Johanson
Reporter and Host at KYW-AM (Philadelphia, PA)
@KYWNewsradio Crime & Justice Reporter & ‘Gone Cold KYW’ [email protected]
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audacy.com | Sabrina Boyd-Surka |Pat Loeb |Kristen Johanson |Racquel Williams
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) - Forty years ago, on May 13, 1985, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the Cobbs Creek residence of the MOVE organization. Neighbors on Osage Avenue had complained that the group was living in unsanitary conditions and shouting threats and profanities from a loudspeaker. They refused to leave, despite notices from the city. The bomb ignited a fire that killed 11 people - five of them children - and destroyed 61 homes.
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5 days ago |
audacy.com | Mike DeNardo |Kristen Johanson
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) - Philadelphia police are trying to find the drive-by shooter who fired into a house in Ogontz Thursday night, wounding two people. It happened in the 5900 block of North 15 Street just after 10 p.m. Police said a man driving by fired nearly two dozen shots toward a house. A 49-year-old woman inside a bedroom was hit in the left leg. A 25-year-old man was found on the porch with a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
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6 days ago |
audacy.com | Kristen Johanson |Sunny Morgan
SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA ( KYW Newsradio) - A bicyclist was killed Thursday morning on Cobbs Creek Parkway in Southwest Philadelphia after colliding with what police are calling a mack truck. Authorities said just after 8 a.m., the 50-year-old bicyclist was riding in the same direction as the truck along 58th Street and Baltimore Avenue when the truck made a right turn and crashed into the man, pinning him under the vehicle.
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1 week ago |
audacy.com | Kristen Johanson
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) - A 21-year-old man admitted in court Monday morning that he shot and killed his girlfriend in front of her 11-year-old son in Kensington nearly two years ago. Abuid Torres pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the shooting death of 35-year-old Tatiana Vargas, who was killed days before Christmas in 2023 as the two were arguing. Torres was on the run for several weeks and was picked up by the U.S. Marshals last February. He was found hiding inside an abandoned home.
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audacy.com | Kristen Johanson
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) - A jury has found Maurice Hill guilty of attempted murder and aggravated assault in the 2019 shooting of Philadelphia police officers during an eight-hour standoff in North Philadelphia's Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood. It took about half an hour to read the verdict Monday afternoon.
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