Multiple people were shot at an Eid al-Fitr event in Philadelphia marking the end of Ramadan. Dozens of shots fired injured three people on Wednesday afternoon near the 4700 block of Wyalusing Avenue in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police sources told…
Philadelphia shooting: 5 killed and 2 wounded after man opens fire
Five people have been killed and two children wounded after a man wearing a bullet-proof vest opened fire in the US city of Philadelphia. The suspected attacker, a 40-year-old man who is now in custody, was carrying an AR-15-style rifle,…
3 SWAT officers injured, suspect killed in Philadelphia shooting
Three Philadelphia police officers were shot and wounded and a suspect was killed early Wednesday when a SWAT team tried to arrest a man wanted on a homicide charge, police said. The shooting occurred around 6:30 a.m., soon after officers…
Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play Philadelphia role today ‘and rightly so’
Tom Hanks says he could not play the role of a gay man today as he did in Philadelphia in 1993 – and “rightly so”. The Hollywood star played lawyer Andrew Beckett in the film, a man who was fired…
*Trailer damages 3 flyover bridges on Lagos-Ibadan expressway (Guardian)*Robbers raid home in Lagos, flee with loot in victim’s car (Punch)
Trailer damages 3 flyover bridges on Lagos -Ibadan expressway (Guardian) Mr Olaseni Bakare, the Federal Controller of Works in Ogun, confirmed the incident to NAN in a telephone interview. Bakare noted that the height of the trailer carrying the excavator…
UFC returns to Philadelphia with Barboza vs Gaethje
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will return to Philadelphia for the first time since August 2011 when UFC: Barboza v Gaethje is held at the Wells Fargo Centre on Sunday, 31 March 2019 live on DStv’s SS6 at 12:00am. The event…
Eyah! $400,000 in GoFundMe donations for homeless man all gone, says lawyer (Time)
The lawyer for a homeless man in Philadelphia whose selflessness led to donations of over $400,000 through an online fundraising page said Tuesday that all the money is gone. Johnny Bobbitt’s attorney, Chris Fallon, told the Philadelphia Inquirer he learned…