Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic is two-stepping out of Texas to the Philadelphia area. The country luminary’s mostly annual mega-concert, hosted in his native Texas for most of its 50-year-history, will be held for the first time in the Northeast this July, with a bill that includes Bob Dylan and the duo of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at …
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A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in accelerating global warming. Bucks County’s lawsuit against a half dozen oil companies blames the oil industry for more frequent and intense storms — including one last summer …
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A search for a 6-year-old girl who fell into a creek in Chester, Pennsylvania, and was swept away in the rushing water on Saturday evening has shifted from a rescue to a recovery mission, officials said Sunday. The child fell into the rain-swollen Chester Creek around 7 p.m. after she was believed to have slipped in the mud near the …
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A New Jersey man has been arrested after Pennsylvania investigators allegedly linked him to a 2012 fatal shooting using recent advancements in DNA forensics, as well as a Styrofoam cup found at the scene and a cigarette butt found at his mom’s residence. The Berks County, Pennsylvania District Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of 39-year-old Vallis L. Slaughter, who was …
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Recent migration out of Pennsylvania and between its counties could present an even closer 2024 matchup between President Biden and former President Trump in the critical battleground state than in 2020, an analysis of new census data shows. “Uneven patterns of in-and out-migration could work to make what was a closely contested 2020 presidential campaign even closer in 2024,” penned …
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He tried to cover his tracks – but within days of the murder of a pregnant Amish woman in front of her other children, police were on his doorstep, according to search warrant returns unsealed over the weekend. The documents, related to the murder of Rebekah Byler in her Sparta Township home, also reveal that she and her husband saw …
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An inmate who escaped from a prison in Western Pennsylvania in early December has been captured after authorities found him leaving a Planet Fitness in Philadelphia. Isaiah Robert Tilghman, 33, was taken into custody Friday in the 3300 block of Aramingo Avenue in Philadelphia, the U.S. Marshals Service Philadelphia said. Tilghman had escaped from the Blair County Prison on Dec. …
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A Florida man on an American Airlines flight was put in a headlock, removed from the aircraft and arrested after he called fellow passengers “blue-eyed white devils” and threatened to “take this plane down with all you motherf—ers on it.” Shail Patel, 29, was drunk when he boarded the flight from Tampa to Philadelphia on Tuesday and began “antagonizing passengers, …
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An 18-year-old in Pennsylvania has entered a guilty plea after she killed a 12-year-old girl over a year ago, authorities say. Ash Cooper, a transgender woman formerly known as Joshua Cooper, pleaded guilty Thursday to a slew of charges that include third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Cooper murdered Morgan Connors, …
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Police have captured two people of interest after a New York woman was allegedly killed by squatters and stuffed into a duffel bag in her apartment. Two people connected to the death of 52-year-old Nadia Vitels were captured in York, Pennsylvania, Friday by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. Halley Tejada, …
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