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A 16-year-old was shot in the head Thursday night around 9:30 pm at the 15th Street station SEPTA’s Market-Frankford Line in Center City. According to SEPTA police, 17-year-old male fired into a crowd striking the 16-year-old in his head. Victim was reported unresponsive and in critical condition. Two people are in custody. Source CBS Phily

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PHILADELPHIA (January 11, 2024) – The Philadelphia District Attorney on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Attorney General to block implementation of Act 40, an unprecedented assault on a locally elected official’s authority and on the rights of voters in the most populous and racially diverse county in the Commonwealth. Act 40 is the product of legislation written by a Republican…

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Philadelphia’s new police commissioner Kevin Bethel announced Pedro Rosario as the city’s Deputy Police Commissioner on Wednesday. Rosario makes history as the first Latino to serve in that role in the department’s 225-year history.  “Rosario has been tapped by Commissioner Bethel to lead the Kensington Initiative, which will work to restore lawfulness and hope to…

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BY MICHAEL R. SISAK, DAVID B. CARUSO AND REBECCA BOONE NEW YORK (AP) — Amid great hype, a court began to release a new batch of previously secret court documents late Wednesday related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Social media has been rife in recent weeks with…

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BY JONATHAN LANDRUM JR LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coco Jones was so obsessed with fine tuning her skills as a singer that she tried to mimic Beyoncé’s Olympic-style training of singing while running on a treadmill. Jones didn’t own a treadmill, but her father and former NFL player, Mike Jones, had an elliptical machine she often…

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By Marc Levy HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In 2024, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro could face a more complicated sophomore year in charge of Pennsylvania after his first year brought a highway collapse, a budget stalemate and friction with allies and adversaries as he navigated the battleground state’s political divides. He is under pressure to respond to a court…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education. Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles. The allegations…

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Cherelle Parker, who has held local and state office and first got involved in politics as a teenager, publicly swore her oath of office on Tuesday as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the first woman to do so. The 51-year-old Democrat with years of political experience took the helm of the nation’s sixth-largest city in a…

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Cherelle Parker has been sworn in as the mayor of Philadelphia shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day. The formal inauguration will still take place on Tuesday Jan. 2. Outgoing mayor Jim Kenney’s term ended on Sunday, Dec. 31. “I have the utmost confidence in Mayor-elect Parker, who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and commitment to…

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BY MOGOMOTSI MAGOME JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Renowned South African playwright, producer and composer Mbongeni Ngema has died in a car crash at the age of 68, his family said. “Ngema was killed in a head-on car accident while returning from a funeral he was attending in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape this evening,” his family said…

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