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  • A woman in her 20s was found dead in a West Oak Lane grocery yesterday afternoon. A store employee is expected to be charged with the shooting. The details surrounding the incident remain murky. The departed is the city’s 294th homicide victim this year.

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    By Andrew Johnston in on November 10, 2008 9:00 AM

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  • Authorities issued a warrant yesterday for Dorien Oberlton's arrest in the case of Tuesday's vicious beating of Eric Derrickson in an underground subway concourse. Several witnesses came forward to identify Oberlton, who apparently had a long-standing grudge against Derrickson for supposedly stealing his girl.

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    By Jim Genzano in on September 19, 2008 9:00 AM

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    The latest in the case of Ebony Nicole Dorsey, the 14-year-old girl allegedly killed by her mother's boyfriend: the Daily News has an exclusive interview with the girl's mother, Danielle Cattie, who calls her boyfriend a monster. Meanwhile, the Inquirer quotes Cattie's brother defending his sister; he says she's "a great mom who deeply loves her children," and "She's a good person who made some bad decisions. She's paid a horrible price." It may seem...

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    By Jim Genzano in on December 13, 2007 9:00 AM

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  • 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.

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    By Jim Genzano in on May 17, 2007 9:00 AM

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  • Also pleading guilty was a man who stole 165 Civil War documents from the National Archives Philadelphia office. He sold between 70 and 80 of them on eBay - which is actually what got him caught. Now he could spend as many as 10 years in jail.

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    By Jim Genzano in on April 6, 2007 8:00 AM

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  • The Daily News has the info on CBS3's new HD broadcast, and the fancy shmancy new studio they're using to record it.

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    By Jim Genzano in on April 3, 2007 8:00 AM

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  • The police are killing a lot of people this year, and the Inquirer is looking into why.

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    By Jim Genzano in on January 22, 2007 8:00 AM

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  • Despite being named among the top U.S. leaders last month, the Philadelphia school district's chief executive, Paul Vallas, got raked over the coals on Friday by the School Reform Commission for the district's $73.3 million deficit.

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    By Jim Genzano in on November 13, 2006 8:00 AM

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