The Cardinal

Gale Walker explains how a baby was saved after a call came in on an ECB (Emergency Call Box). Transit officials in Philadelphia say an old-fashioned but vital piece of safety equipment helped avert disaster when a stroller carrying a baby fell onto train tracks. The baby suffered a facial laceration, but have been killed [...]

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Philadelphia Police Department surveillance tape shows three boys pointing a gun at pedestrians on the street in broad daylight. The incident occurred in the Tioga section of Philadelphia on Monday. Police suggest the gun was either a toy gun or a BB gun. The youngest male, 10-years-old, turned himself in on Wednesday. Authorities continue to [...]

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A Pennsylvania woman survived an apparently random, unprovoked subway attack and robbery; and a suspect was captured two days later with the victim’s phone. William Clark, of Philadelphia, is in custody, and faces aggravated assault, robbery, theft and reckless endangerment charges after police believe he was the offender caught on SEPTA security video during the [...]

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Philadelphia Police Captain John Darby said the 5 year-old girl who was kidnapped Monday from her school has been found. Police say they are investigating whether the girl was sexually assaulted while she was abducted. A woman dressed in Muslim garb similar to the girl’s mother took her from school on Monday. A 5-year-old girl [...]

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Warning: graphic video. Attorneys for the parents of two Hungarian students killed in a Philadelphia collision between a barge and a tour boat have released a new video of the crash only days before a civil wrongful death lawsuit goes to court. A disturbing video of a crash of a barge and duck boat/tour boat [...]

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VIDEO: Five-Alarm Warehouse Fire in Philadelphia. Pa. at York and Jasper St. Philadelphia firefighters responded about 3:13 a.m. Monday to a large warehouse fire at Jasper Street and York Street in Kensington. The fire response was elevated to a 5-Alarm fire as the fire spread to neighboring businesses and homes. “It is with deep regret [...]

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A small tornado touched down in northeast Philadelphia Tuesday, tearing part of the roof off building housing a beer distributo, a bar and restaurant, and demolishing a car repair shop. CONFIRMED EF-0 IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA NEAR INTERSECTION OF NORTHEAST AVENUE AND RED LION RD. Convective outlook for the United States .. shows slight risk west [...]

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Strong tornado on the north side of Philadelphia, MS… within 100 yards this powerful tornado crosses the road in front of videographer Andy Gabrielson. A tornado touched down in Northwest Philadelphia, Mississippi about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and caused extensive damage to Northside Park and then continued through the Longino and North Bend communities in rural [...]

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A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and seven babies that prosecutors say were born alive and then killed with scissors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, his wife and eight other colleagues were arrested overnight Tuesday following a grand jury investigation Prosecutors say Dr. Kermit [...]

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A man linked by DNA to the strangling deaths of three women in a gritty, high-crime section of Philadelphia was detained Monday, police said. Philadelphia police detained suspected serial strangler Antonio Rodriguez on Monday while DNA testing is checked to see if he is linked to the sexual assault and murder of at least three [...]

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Scores of firefighters battled a huge blaze in a four-story apartment complex in Philadelphia on Monday. Officials said the building had been evacuated safely and there were no reports of injuries. Philadelphia firefighters responded about 2:30 p.m. to the Windermere Court complex apartments in West Philadelphia. The fire spread out of control with about 160 [...]

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Police are investigating a fourth death in Philadelphia’s gritty Kensington neighborhood to see if it’s part of a recent string of strangulation deaths and sexual assaults by choking since Halloween. Victims have been prostitutes and drug abusers. The attacks have taken place in abandoned homes and empty lots.

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