
Oona Goodin-Smith
Reporter and Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Deputy politics editor @phillyinquirer. DM or email: [email protected]
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Feb 14, 2025 |
inquirer.com | Oona Goodin-Smith |Matt Mullin |Júlia Duarte
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Jan 31, 2025 |
miamiherald.com | Robert Moran |Aubrey Whelan |Ellie Rushing |Anna Orso |Oona Goodin-Smith
PHILADELPHIA - A medical jet with six people on board - including a pediatric patient - crashed Friday evening near the Roosevelt Mall in Northeast Philadelphia, erupting into a massive fireball, scattering debris throughout the streets, and setting multiple homes and cars ablaze. In a briefing Friday night, Mayor Cherelle L.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
inquirer.com | Jeremy Roebuck |Oona Goodin-Smith
Luigi Mangione, the University of Pennsylvania graduate accused in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week, contested his extradition to New York to face murder charges at a court hearing Tuesday in Blair County.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
inquirer.com | Jeremy Roebuck |Oona Goodin-Smith
Federal prosecutors will not retry former Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty on extortion charges — a decision announced Thursday, just weeks before the ex-union chief was set to begin serving a six-year prison term for separate embezzlement and bribery crimes. Government lawyers offered little explanation for their withdrawal of the case in a four-page court filing nearly four months after Dougherty’s trial on those charges ended with a deadlocked jury and mistrial.
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Aug 4, 2024 |
inquirer.com | Michelle Myers |Oona Goodin-Smith
Sunday marked a year to the day since Mario D’Adamo III, a lawyer and avid cyclist, was killed when a driver careened into him while he was biking after work in South Philadelphia’s FDR Park. But for D’Adamo’s mother, the heartbreak remains as raw as the night she got the call that her 37-year-old son had been hit by an alleged drunken driver.
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