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Follow-up Friday: Elderly landlord gets felony charge dropped, then racks up 2 more mugshots
March 7, 2025

Follow-up Friday: Elderly landlord gets felony charge dropped, then racks up 2 more mugshots

The elderly landlord charged with burglary for trying to move a tenant who hadn’t been paying rent is now facing lesser charges, but he has also been arrested again.

Photo finish – literally – to woman’s car insurance claim: ‘I messed up’
March 5, 2025

Photo finish – literally – to woman’s car insurance claim: ‘I messed up’

Accidents happen, but that’s not why a certain woman is facing a felony.

She said she swerved her 2018 Toyota Camry “to avoid a dog in the road and she hit a tree stump,” and that’s not disputed.

Both battered: ‘Very intoxicated’ couple led to fight over wife’s homemade porn on husband’s phone
March 3, 2025

Both battered: ‘Very intoxicated’ couple led to fight over wife’s homemade porn on husband’s phone

An argument over “pornographic photographs” a woman let her husband take developed into something physical – and booking photos of them both.

Suspect picked the wrong senior citizen victim and she became his worst nightmare, arrest report says
February 8, 2025

Suspect picked the wrong senior citizen victim and she became his worst nightmare, arrest report says

A 77-year-old woman showed up at the sheriff’s office early in the morning and by late afternoon, her information would lead to a much younger theft suspect’s arrest on six criminal charges.

Man ‘wearing a bulletproof vest, mask, sunglasses, and an FBI hat’ arrested for weapon in school
January 2, 2025

Man ‘wearing a bulletproof vest, mask, sunglasses, and an FBI hat’ arrested for weapon in school

He was hard to miss and therefore relatively easy to catch. The manager of a food pantry called authorities about a “suspicious” man nearby. He described the man as “approximately 50s, wearing a bulletproof vest, mask, sunglasses, and an FBI hat.”

3rd time the charm: Men arrested for fraud, other felonies after repeated visits to Comcast store
December 14, 2024

3rd time the charm: Men arrested for fraud, other felonies after repeated visits to Comcast store

Two men went into a Comcast store for the “third time within a week” and they left under arrest for three felonies and more. They’re accused of “presenting fraudulent ID cards and a credit card,” and store employees knew to call police.

Woman back behind bars, accused of attacking elderly mother and charged with battery on deputies
December 12, 2024

Woman back behind bars, accused of attacking elderly mother and charged with battery on deputies

A woman’s alleged rampage against her mother and mother’s belongings didn’t end when she went home. That woman is also charged with battery on sheriff’s deputies.

Woman got her latest ride to jail after ‘getting into a random stranger’s car’ at a McDonald’s drive-thru
November 9, 2024

Woman got her latest ride to jail after ‘getting into a random stranger’s car’ at a McDonald’s drive-thru

A woman with the words “VIOLENT FELONY OFFENDER” stamped on each page of her latest arrest report is behind bars for crimes at a laundromat and a fast food drive-thru.

Jail ‘refused’ to take battery suspect with dozens of priors until his latest facial injury was treated
September 24, 2024

Jail ‘refused’ to take battery suspect with dozens of priors until his latest facial injury was treated

This unusual case ended with both the victim and suspect battered, and the suspect’s booking photo – showing a “laceration to his forehead” – was the latest of dozens taken by four law enforcement agencies over the decades.

November 21, 2018

The end of an era, and beginning of this one (Part A of this one)

It was 20 years ago tonight. Not exactly. It was actually four days off, on Nov. 25, but what really matters is it was the night before Thanksgiving in 1998.

September 26, 2018

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Sometimes I see or hear something so stupid, I lose control and have to call it out right away. That’s especially true when it comes from somebody who makes herself seem like some sort of expert on a topic. Unfortunately, this is one of those times.

February 18, 2018

Famous man, 80, suing famous man, 77, for age discrimination

What’s famous to you obviously relies on where you’ve been and what you’ve noticed, but these people have had national exposure for at least…

February 12, 2018

Football, even the Super Bowl, may be hazardous to your health

The Super Bowl is over, the Eagles won and in a moment, I’ll show you why the old phrase in the title — “may…

December 20, 2017

Today, Merry Christmas to Comcast! You’re welcome!

No waiting until Christmas on Monday. Comcast, you obviously consider yourself too powerful. Today, your hard-earned rate hikes take effect. Santa says you’ve been…

November 29, 2017

Hey, you accused! Would Mom say, wait until your father gets home?

Today, it was Matt Lauer. Some of you want the newest, shocking details. The Miami Herald called the accusations against him “crude misconduct.” Less…

October 6, 2017

Update: Storing the car on the mean streets

This blog post I found was written in mid-May, 2016, but never published. It was part of a series on the difficulties I had…

August 24, 2017

Hurricane Andrew, after a quarter century

25 years ago today, this was nothing. It’s hard to believe so much time has passed, not that I ever forgot a Hurricane Andrew…

May 25, 2017

Dinner in my honor: A favorite memory

The spring of 1997. It was pretty much my first time away from home. Steve and Tom hired me to produce the 11pm news…

February 3, 2017

The media: Certainly imperfect, definitely necessary and trying

This is my first blog in several months, and only my second since arriving back in Philadelphia. The first was shortly after my return, so…

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