Results tagged “handgun”

  • A 4-year-old in Southwest Philadelphia shot himself once in the throat about 4:50PM yesterday inside a rowhouse belonging to his family. He was pronounced dead forty minutes later at Children's Hospital. The weapon was a 9mm handgun, and there doesn't seem to be any information yet on how the child got his hands on it, or who it belongs to.
  • In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and veggies in South Central. On the entertainment front, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the show titled Californication and Rami Kashou of Project Runway chatted with LAist about his Palestinian heritage and, of course, designing beauty.

    (This review contains spoilers; although if you think the movie can be spoiled I admire your optimism.)

    This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities.

  • Philadelphia corrections officer Christopher Davidson has been arrested after going on a crazy rampage on an ATV in East Germantown on Tuesday evening. He drove all over a playing field, as well as nearby sidewalks and streets, nearly crashing into numerous vehicles and nearly running over numerous people. The ATV finally stopped after slamming into a police wagon and flipping several times, but that wasn't the end of the chase; police had to continue chasing Davidson on foot before finally wrestling a handgun away from him and taking him into custody. The article doesn't mention it, but... we're betting he was on something.
  • The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers have blown a big raspberry at all the mayoral candidates and voted to endorse none of them. It's the first time they've voted to endorse no candidate since 1971. Ouch!
  • When this Phillyist moved from her West Philly rowhome apartment to her current Center City digs, the one thing she told everyone was that she felt a lot safer walking home alone at night. No longer. According to 6abc.com:

  • Cartoonist for the Daily News Signe Wilkinson will appear in the Library of Congress' 2007 "Women Who Dare" desk calendar. Wilkinson was the first woman to win a Pulitzer prize for cartooning.
  • What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

    - America's Hometown points us towards TurnHere -- Short Films, Cool Spaces, which features short films about several Philly neighborhoods.

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