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A 10-year-old boy has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head after finding a gun in the house where he and his sister were home alone playing. According to ABC News, the tragic incident occurred at 6 p.m. on Saturday in the Tioga-Nicetown area of Philadelphia. The boy …

An ATV rider who was caught on camera bashing a car window with a cinder block and punching out a driver after a fender bender incident has been arrested. According to the New York Post, the ATV driver, Gregory Stevens, was arrested on Friday, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office said. …

A Philadelphia teenager faces a tough decision on where to attend college in the fall after earning over $1 million in scholarship money from nearly twenty schools.  Good Morning America reports that Shanya Robinson-Owens, 17, applied to 20 schools. So far, she has been accepted to 18 of them and offered $1,074,260 …

According to The Hill, FBI agents raided a Mercer County, Philadelphia home searching for a woman they identified as one of January’s Capitol breach rioters. Rachel Powell, also known as the “bullhorn lady,” is wanted by the agency, a spokesperson confirmed to CBS affiliate KDKA. During the breach, Powell wore …

Philadelphia has severed its relationship with Philly Fighting COVID-19 after its CEO admitted to stealing vaccine doses for friends. Philly Fighting COVID was awarded a contract from the city to help administer the COVID-19 vaccine despite having no health care experience.  The group’s CEO, 22-year-old graduate student Andrei Doroshin, gained attention …

A Philly customer’s decision to involve himself in a robbery ended fatally. On Sunday, an armed man wearing a mask and gloves came into a Wingstop in northeast Philadelphia around 10:30 p.m. a demanded three employees to hand over the money from the cash register.  That’s when a customer who …

Last week, a Philadelphia man was murdered for allegedly being a “snitch” for testifying in a 2019 murder trial. 21-year-old Khaleaf Sistrunk died on Nov. 16 after two gunmen released 11 rounds as he sat on a dirt bike near the Clothespin sculpture across from City Hall in Center City. …

Philadelphia police say a 12-year-old child was fatally shot while walking to answer a knock at the front door of his Frankford home on the 5000 block of Ditman Street early Sunday morning. The 12-year-old was at home with his grandmother and his 9-year-old sister when he went to answer …

Last night Meek Mill had something to say about the violence in Philadelphia and offered a suggestion to the problem. In a tweet, he said that he would give main Philly artist a deal if they would squash the beef. “I’ll get all the main big artist in philly a …

City Commissioner Al Schmidt told “60 Minutes” that he and the Philadelphia election workers were receiving death threats last week, including calls that were “reminding us that this is what the Second Amendment is for.” Schmidt and others received the threats as election workers spent days counting hundreds of thousands of …

In Philadelphia, police are investigating an alleged plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Centre where the election ballots are being counted. Police received a tip that either an individual or a group was travelling from Virginia in a Hummer truck with intentions on attacking the convention centre. Since then a …

The Philadelphia Police Department has released body-cam footage of the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Twenty-seven-year-old Wallace is one of the latest victims of a police violence incident that happened last week in West Philadelphia. His death was recorded on video by a bystander, as well as by police …

Police lied and said a Black baby that they took from a family’s SUV was wondering barefoot during unrest in Philadelphia over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. The police reach a new low every day, and their lies never cease to amaze the world. The latest one comes …

The Philadelphia Police Department found a van filled with explosives in the middle of unrest over the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Since the police killing of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., Philadelphia has exploded into an outcry over the man, who reportedly suffered from bipolar disorder. The protests …

This morning, rapper Freeway shared with his Instagram followers heartbreaking news that his eldest son Jihad passed away. The photo he posted to his Instagram featured the rapper with his son at his high school graduation, with the caption reading, “God knows I try my best to be strong, but …