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Newsworks–Common Pleas Court Judge Daniel Anders has decided that city officials can continue releasing the names of officers in police-involved shootings within 72 hours. Following a brief hearing Friday afternoon, Anders said halting the policy would harm the city more than the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5. Anders added that the FOP failed to…

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Photo: Twitter @CarmenYulinCruz “The goal is one: saving lives. This is the time to show our ‘true colors’. We cannot be distracted by anything else.” Carmen Yulin Cruz, Mayor of San Juan AP–President Donald Trump is lashing out at the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city in a , ar of words over recovery efforts…

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept., 25, 2017) — National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) President Sarah Glover announces that the organization is naming Sharon Toomer, an accomplished media executive and nonprofit leader, as its new executive director. The announcement today comes after an intense selection process and extensive national search facilitated by Harris Rand Lusk. “We are…

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???? Jeanette Reyes 6abc, CENTER CITY – Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in Center City Philadelphia. It happened before 7:45 a.m. Friday at 19th and Vine street. Officers arrived to find the body of a man in his 50s who had been stabbed multiple times in the face and neck. Medics pronounced him dead…

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LOS ANGELES (CBS/CNN) — An award-winning actress reveals she has breast cancer. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best known for her roles in “Veep” and “Seinfeld,” revealed on Twitter Thursday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I’m the one,” she said. Earlier this month, Louis-Dreyfus won her sixth…

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Pennsylvania Attorney General is investigating the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia, following a city controller’s report showing irregular spending. The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia spent more than $300,000 for travel related to Pope Francis’ visit two years ago — more than four times what it had disclosed earlier, according to findings in…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91. Hefner died of natural causes at his home surrounded by family…

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???? CBS3 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — One woman is dead and two children are injured after a car collided with a SEPTA trolley in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon. SEPTA says the car hit the trolley around 4:10 p.m. on the 400 block of West Girard Avenue.

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Photo: Jeannine Heck PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — An emergency evacuation has shut down SEPTA regional rail service through Center City. SEPTA tweeted that there is “no train service through Center City until further notice due to an emergency evacuation. ”SEPTA says there was an equipment problem on a regional rail train between Suburban Station and 30th…

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U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and representatives from the Gray Coalition will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 29, at Amtrak’s 30th Street Station to urge Amtrak to comply with a congressional resolution to rename the 30th Street Station as the “William H. Gray III 30th Street Station.” “Congressman Gray not only represented…

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