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Crime

Huntington Valley Resident Arrested For Threatening Disabled Man Over Handicapped Parking Spot

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 25, 2026

by Alex Lloyd Gross On August 7 2026 a male who was suffering from cancer was at the CVS on Welsh Road, to pick up medication. He parked in the handicapped space and walked inside. This male walks with a cane police said and is very frail. When he came out, he encountered Gary Phillips…

Community

Steve Stein’s Deli In the Northeast Now Closed

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

by Alex Lloyd Gross Today, August 25,2026 a staple of the Northeast will close it’s doors forever. Steve Stein’s Famous Deli located at 1619 Grant Avenue. “It’s time,” said Steve Stein, owner. He was the owner when it first opened and he saw it through rough times, COVID, and the relocation from Krewstown Road, just…

Bensalem

Male Arrested For Placing Card Skimmers In Bristol Borough Sales Terminal

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 24, 2026

by Alex Lloyd Gross People that pay by credit or EBT card are used to presenting the card at a terminal, swiping it or inserting the card for their purchases. Most card readers have a tap system that allows a chip to read the transaction. Unfortunately, EBT cards do not have this feature. Police said…

Crime

Illegal Alien Arrested Three Times For Unauthorized Entry To United States

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Alvaro Morales-Ortiz, 33, a Guatemalan national, was sentenced by United States District Judge Mia Roberts Perez to 12 months and one day in prison for illegally reentering the United States after prior deportations. Upon completing his prison sentence, he will be removed from the U.S. for…

Bensalem

Bensalem/Middletown Police Investigation Takes Down Shady Contractor From Philly

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 23, 2026

by Alex Lloyd Gross When people hire someone to do work, they want it done right and for the price and time frame they were quoted. Nothing upsets people more than to hire someone to do work and they do a bit of the work and don’t come back. Or they refuse to return phone…

Crime

FunTimes Magagine Lists Fun Things To Do This Month

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 22, 2026

The d’griot Community Gallery, 51 Maplewood Mall, offers BeWell 101: Herbs, a Sunday in-person workshop, where you can learn to forage and identify herbs, prepare infusions, teas, salves, and other wellness remedies. The gallery is named after African storytellers and urban slang: “duh-gree-o.” The next session will be on August 23, from 1:30 EST to…

Bensalem

Pedestrian Struck By Car On Street Road In Bensalem

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

by Alex Lloyd Gross A pedestrian was hit by a car on the 2200 block of Street Road just before noon today. The pedestrian, said to be an older woman sustained serious injuries from the crash. She was on Street Road, mid block, not at a crosswalk when she was hit by a westbound car…

Crime

Air Force Airman Arrested For Taking Girl To Dover Delaware For Sex

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

by Alex Lloyd Gross Earlier this week, Falls Township Police had a report of a runaway 15 year old girl. She climbed out of the back window of her home in Vermillion Hills and was picked up by Dylan Williams, Police said. Williams was enlisted with the Air Force and served at Dover Air Force…

Bristol Borough

Bristol Township Council Votes Against The Community To Close Newportville Fire Company

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 21, 2026

by Alex Lloyd Gross Last night at 7:02 PM the Bristol Township Council started their meeting and it was packed with people. The people were upset that a resolution to close 99 year old Newportville Fire Company was on the table. 90 minutes later, those people would leave pissed. The township used smoke and mirrors…

Crime

“Chucky” UnMasked! Suspect Identified

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 20, 2026

by Alex Lloyd Gross It did not take long for the masked male to be identified. He has been identified as Zymire Hughes, 22. An arrest warrant is active. Hughes may have fled Pennsylvania and has ties to California and Nevada. The US Marshals might be involved in scooping him and and bringing him back…

Crime

Suspects In Violent Philadelphia Robbery Escape Using A Lamborghini and A Porsche

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

On Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, at approximately 4:23 a.m., Philadelphia police responded to the 300 block of Race Street for a reported robbery at an Old City parking facility. The employee reported that he was inside the parking booth when two masked males, dressed in all black and wearing gloves, approached the window and struck…

Crime

Federal Prisoner Pleads Guilty To Assaulting Prison Guard and Carjacking

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

by Alex Lloyd Gross Basir Blow, 26, of Philadelphia just made things 1000 times worse for himself, with his actions inside the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia . Blow was in custody for a carjacking charge in West Philadelphia on April 3, 2025, carjacking in West Philadelphia in which he pistol-whipped the victim with a…

Center City Philadelphia

Idiot Wanted By Police For Defacing Jewish Statue

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 19, 2026

by Alex Llooyd Gross Philadelphia Police hope to make a quick arret of the Anti Semite that vandalized a statue outside of the Wietzman National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall. The statue, was yellow letters that said YO/OY. Cameras caught the idiot vandalizing the statue, which was right in front of the…

Community

Kensington High School Temporarily Closed Students Will Attend School In Mayfair

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, August 18, 2026

by Alex Lloyd Gross August 24, 2026, is the first day back for all Philadelphia Public Schools. Due to asbestos removal at Kensington High School, the building is closed, at least until January. Students and staff will go to the Austin Meehan Middle School building, which is about a block away from Lincoln High School….

Crime

Woman Brings Child To Store, Steals Junk Food and Liquor

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross,

by Alex Lloyd Gross On July 30, 2026 the above pictured woman went to the ACME on Street Road with her child. Once inside the store, the candidate for mother of the year gathered cases of soda, some lunch meat and walked to where the store was selling wines. She loaded up her oversized purse…