February 29, 2024 Senior’s ‘continuous harassment’ caused next-door neighbors ‘fear and emotional distress’ People don’t get to choose their neighbors, and, in this case, a couple said they put their house for sale due to harassment from their next-door neighbor.
February 5, 2024 Man who defecated on SUV, charged with 2nd vandalism, arrested after suspected DUI crash A man who served probation for defecating on an ex-coworker’s SUV is facing a DUI charge after he crashed his own vehicle.
January 31, 2024 He killed coworker who stole his lunch, ‘threatened to kill or hurt’ others at sentencing The man who killed a coworker in the parking garage of the Target where they worked was sentenced to prison, but not before making a threat at the hearing.
January 25, 2024 Guy got prison for messages with supposed 12-year-old online and what he brought for her in person A man in Pennsylvania arrested “after he arranged to meet with the 12-year-old girl for a sexual encounter” is headed to prison.
January 24, 2024 Arrested despite ‘way much worse things going on in the world than me,’ officer says A DUI suspect was pulled over after she made a left turn on a red light and her “vehicle struck the curb while maneuvering the turn,” her arrest report said.
January 12, 2024 Teacher facing 12 sex crime charges against former student over 2 years to be fired A teacher will soon be out of a job after she was indicted on a dozen criminal charges involving sexual misconduct with a teenage girl who was her student.
December 8, 2023 3 men charged with holding 20-year-old foreigner captive in basements, forcing him to work, attacking him Three men are being held without bond, accused of holding a 20-year-old captive and forced to work as a slave, prosecutors outside St. Louis said.
December 4, 2023 ‘Posing as a home-schooled student,’ woman accused of ‘inappropriate relationship’ with boy A young woman looks younger than her real age, at least to one boy who police say became a victim of her lewd or lascivious behavior.
October 3, 2023 Trump trial: Limited gag order for disparaging judge’s principal law clerk on social media Donald Trump and lawyers for both sides met with the judge in his civil business fraud trial and Trump deleted a disparaging social media post from the morning about the judge’s principal law clerk.
September 14, 2023 Midnight deadline for automaker union strike looms as talks with workers have a distance to go There are just hours to go but quite a distance between proposals to avoid a strike by members of the United Auto Workers union against Detroit’s three automakers.
April 10, 2023 Having students write their obits before active shooter drill got teacher terminated A teacher was handed his walking papers after he tried to connect an active shooter drill to his students’ obituaries.
January 17, 2023 Funeral home employee found dead hours after accusation of sexual abuse of a corpse A funeral home worker has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, hours after a co-worker allegedly caught him sexually abusing a corpse.
November 10, 2022 FPL: ‘We are going to work around the clock,’ power already restored to 280,000 customers FPL said it is quickly restoring power to those who lost it during Hurricane Nicole.
October 2, 2022 Woman, 21, tells detective this man was ‘forcing himself on me since I was 13’ This sexual battery case goes back eight years, and ends on the very day the alleged victim spoke to a detective over the summer.
August 26, 2022 Lenny Cohen’s bio on cbs12.com Lenny Cohen arrived at CBS12 News as dayside digital content producer in 2021, writing news as it happens for cbs12.com and then going beyond the headlines to show why people need to read those articles on social media platforms.
June 9, 2022 Beyond the U.S. Capitol doors – window, in one case – and the Florida rioters’ sentences Authorities say many of the Jan. 6 riot suspects ended up in handcuffs after friends and coworkers turned them in. Many also appeared in social media photos of the spectacle.
March 22, 2022 DeSantis says he’ll sign controversial ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will sign the controversial bill titled “Parental Rights in Education” bill soon.
January 18, 2022 New Port St. Lucie water park may be built at Torino Regional Park Consultants picked Torino Regional Park as the best site for Port St. Lucie to own and operate a potential new water park.
December 5, 2020 Dan Rather: Raising a ruckus in a good way from Texas to TV, and now the Twitterverse You may not have heard much about Dan Rather lately. I don’t remember seeing him on TV except as a guest on NBC News,…
April 15, 2020 A blogger’s job is never done, especially after a migration I haven’t blogged for a while because I’ve been working hard, but I’ve been on this updated website, fixing lots of problems that started…
March 7, 2020 New and improved website! I’m happy to report the blog CohenConnect.com is new and improved, with a different web host, and more to see at first glance if…
October 18, 2019 Haven’t been in touch for a while. This is partly the reason. To those of you eager to read more blog posts here (this is blog #150!), and news on ThePhillyFiles.com, I’m temporarily sorry. No, I…
August 15, 2019 ThePhillyFiles’ six-week milestone! I sent the following to subscribers of ThePhillyFiles on Mailchimp: It’s hard for me to believe but today marks *six weeks* since the kickoff…
June 13, 2019 Adding my own few points to Nexstar’s ‘Digital First’ strategy The phrase “Digital First” is nothing new. Managers in TV station news departments have been saying it for years, but they really hadn’t practiced…
May 3, 2019 Lenny’s update, and the writing and posting you may have missed You may have actually looked at the homepage of this blog, CohenConnect.com, and thought I hadn’t been writing. It may have looked that way,…
March 16, 2019 Control of the media after the mosque attacks in New Zealand THANK YOU to the two new followers from over the past week, bringing the total up to 116. I hope you like what you…
January 11, 2019 Anniversary means time to start something new It’s Jan. 11 and that means today marks four years since my very first blog post at www.CohenConnect.com. Back then, when I started, I…
January 7, 2019 Odds, ends and new beginnings It’s always good to be remembered, and hopefully being your last new year’s message of the year will keep some of my thoughts on…
December 12, 2018 Exposing hate, close to home (as if acceptable anywhere) My interest started when I was looking at my Facebook feed over the weekend and saw this post from a former coworker. Obviously, we’re…
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…
October 20, 2018 Thinking about teacher’s child porn trouble and my old school’s website Today, I found out some news about someone who went to school with me, pretty much since kindergarten. In fact, I think he lived…
October 10, 2018 The case against us all paying for private schools Several times a year, before elections, a man in Florida emails me about who to support in elections down there. The goal is to…