Front of two homes in West Oak Lane collapse; no injuries reported

WEST OAK LANE - Philadelphia police say three men were stalked and killed after getting off buses in the last couple of weeks. Their alleged killer is under arrest. Police their murders were random. "He was the best.

Survey results published yesterday in JAMA Network Open reveal that, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Latino adults in the United States have experienced more delays in cancer care and more worries about treatment costs than their White peers.A team led by Stanford University researchers deployed the 74-que

Self-reported data from nearly 1 million Americans show an 8% to 11% higher rate of mostly mild systemic adverse events after simultaneous seasonal flu vaccine and mRNA COVID-19 booster (third) doses than with the COVID-19 booster alone.

Mercer County officials are investigating the drowning death of a four-year-old boy at Spring Lake. HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Mercer County officials are investigating the drowning death of a four-year-old boy.According to authorities, police in Hamilton Township, in Mercer County, were called to Overlook Avenue Thursday, a little after 5 p.m., on the report of a missing child. Officials said the boy went missing about 40 minutes before police were called.Responding officers made an extensive search and, about an hour later, they located the child submerged in Spring Lake, inside John Roebling Memorial Park.Mercer County officials are investigating the drowning death of a four-year-old boy at Spring Lake.

ANI quoted Piyush Ranjan as saying. Elaborating on the symptoms, Dr. Ranjan said that monkeypox symptoms are like smallpox and chickenpox.

COVID-19 and a 27-patient increase in hospitalizations in the past 24 hours.The Health Department says 1,887 people in hospital have the disease, including 640 who were admitted specifically because of COVID-19.There are 42 people in intensive care, a drop of three patients compared to the previous day.The province reported 1,910 new cases through PCR tests, which are limited to certain high-risk groups, as well as 656 positive at-home rapid tests reported through a government website.Authorities say 7,138 health network workers are off the job for reasons related to COVID-19.The province has reported 15,737 deaths attributed to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department is set to announce the arrest of a suspect wanted in connection with two separate shootings in West Oak Lane that left three men dead. According to police, the first shooting occurred on the 6400 block of Broad Street on June 28. Authorities say 20-year-old Zamir Syrus was found on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to his chest and neck. Officials say that medics transferred him to Albert Einstein Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The second shooting occurred on the 1900 block of 68th Street on July 7, according to authorities. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESIn that shooting, police say more than 12 shots were fired at two men at close range, police say. Officials identified the two victims, who were both shot multiple times in the chest and torso, as 21-year-old Tyheim Tucker and 20-year-old Justin Robert Smith. The Philadelphia Police Department is having a press conference on Friday at 11 a.m.

Fire officials say two people were transported to the hospital after being rescued from a fire in an apartment building in West Philadelphia.  PHILADELPHIA - Two people are in the hospital after being rescued from a fire in West Philadelphia, according to Philadelphia fire officials. Authorities say a fire broke out on the third and fourth floor of an apartment building in the area of 46th and Walnut Streets. According to officials, one adult and a child were rescued from the building and transported to the hospital. SKYFOX flew over the scene and firefighters could be seen on the roof of the building and on the ground below. The fire has since been placed under control. This is a developing story.

An abortion rights activist holds a sign at a protest in support of abortion access on July 13, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (John Parra/Getty Images for MoveOn) INDIANAPOLIS - The lawyer for an Indiana doctor at the center of a political firestorm after speaking out about a 10-year-old child abuse victim who traveled from Ohio for an abortion said Thursday that her client provided proper treatment and did not violate any patient privacy laws in discussing the unidentified girl's case.Attorney Kathleen DeLaney issued the statement on behalf of Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard the same day Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said his office was investigating Bernard's actions.

PHILADELPHIA - A man is in police custody after he fatally shot his girlfriend in the head in Tioga, police say. According to Philadelphia Chief Inspector Scott Small, the shooting occurred just before 1 a.m.

President Joe Biden (L) meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) in Bethlehem, West Bank on July 15, 2022. (Photo by Palestinian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) BETHLEHEM, West Bank - President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that an independent state for Palestinians "can seem so far away" as he confronted hopelessness about the stagnant peace process during a visit to the West Bank."The Palestinian people are hurting now," he said.

Monkeypox disease. As per the ministry's guidelines, international passengers should avoid close contact with sick people, contact with dead or live wild animals and others.

COVID cases reported in the last 24 hours, India on Friday logged 101 less daily cases as compared to Thursday. Down from yesterday's 20,139 fresh cases, the country reported a slight decline in fresh infections, however, the daily COVID tally still remains close to a four month high. With the country recording 47 fatalities from the viral infection in the last 24 hours, India also witnessed a significant rise in deaths with nine more being reported today as compared to yesterday's 38.

India has reported more than 20,038 new cases and 47 deaths due to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The total number of active caseload currently stands at 1,39,073 in the country. In the last 2 years, 4.37 crore cases and around 5,25,604 fatalities have been reported due to Covid-19 so far.

Lytton, B.C., may have destroyed several structures, emergency officials say.Rob Schweitzer, director of fire centre operations for the BC Wildfire Service, said the Nohomin Creek wildfire was first reported around 12:45 p.m. Thursday, and was being fanned by gusty winds.

shooting death of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted in 2005 of charges connected to the 1985 Air India bombing, is the latest chapter in the decades-long saga of the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history.Of the 329 people killed in the bombing, a vast majority were Canadians. The attack launched an international investigation that led to just one person being convicted, along with accusations of “failures” on behalf of RCMP, intelligence services, airport security and the federal government.

Today we are reporting 10,470 community cases, 773 current hospitalisations, and 16 deaths.

A text from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson to Assistant Director of the United States Secret Service Anthony Ornato appears above members of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol during the seventh WASHINGTON - Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan.

LOS ANGELES - Despite being at the center of several political controversies and losing the 2020 election, it appears former President Donald Trump has made up his mind about running in 2024 and he feels confident that he could win, according to a report from New York Magazine. "Look," Trump said in an interview with New York Mag’s Olivia Nuzzi. "I feel very confident that, if I decide to run, I’ll win.""Well, in my own mind, I’ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - San Jose police arrested six people who are allegedly involved in a commercial burglary and recovered $100,000 worth of stolen items in an underground bunker, police said. Among the stolen goods were a lot of power tools, three hunting shotguns, and three pickup trucks, police said. Officers first received reports about an electrical contractor business being burglarized Monday on South 10th Street in District Lincoln, according to East Bay Times. SEE ALSO: Q&A: Newly appointed San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins outlines goals 1st week on jobPatrolling officers doing a follow-up arrested the suspects later that day after finding them around the truck that was stolen during the burglary, police said.  This arrest led the police to investigate a homeless encampment near Coyote Creek and Wool Creek Dr.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 4: Detail of a man holding up an Honor 20 Pro smartphone with the Uber transport app visible on screen, while taxis queue in the background, on June 4, 2019. (Photo by Olly Curtis/Future via Getty Images) Rideshare giant Uber is being sued by more than 500 women in multiple states who say they were attacked while utilizing the company's services and that the San Francisco-based firm has not put adequate safety measures in place to protect passengers.The class action was filed by law firm Slater Slater Schulman LLP, which says the plaintiffs include women who "were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked by Uber drivers with whom they had been paired through the Uber application."The firm noted that the filing comes a month after Uber released its latest safety report, wherein the company disclosed that it received more than 3,800 complaints of sexual assaults on Uber rides in 2019 and 2020."Uber's whole business model is predicated on giving people a safe ride home, but rider safety was never their concern – growth was, at the expense of their passengers' safety," said Adam Slater, founding partner of Slater Slater Schulman.

A new study published in Applied Economics Letter estimates long COVID symptoms have forced 80,000 UK residents out of employment as of March of this year.The estimate is based on data that show 5.5% of peopl

High percentages of infection preventionists (IPs) reported that COVID-19–related stressors worsened their mental and physical health, highlighting the need to address systemic issues that lead to burnout and improve recruitment and retention, according to survey results reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.

COVID-19 cases reported and hospitalizations linked to the virus last week, according to health data.The province’s latest epidemiology update, which covers July 3 to July 9, reports 229 new lab-confirmed COVID-19 infections and new 59 hospitalizations — seven of which required intensive care. Sick time, overtime skyrocket for Winnipeg paramedics and firefighters Another two COVID-19-related deaths were reported last week, bringing the province’s COVID-19 death toll to 2,053.While provincial case counts no longer give an accurate picture of active infection rates because the government has significantly scaled back testing, the numbers do show a marked increase over last week’s data, when 125 new lab-confirmed cases were reported.There were 46 new hospitalizations — including a child under the age of 10 admitted to ICU — reported in the previous week’s COVID-19 data.It is not known exactly how many people are currently in hospital or an ICU as a result of COVID-19 because the province no longer reports those numbers.Meanwhile, the province says the number of lab tests for COVID-19 rose to an average of 269 per day last week, up from 244 a day the previous week.

COVID-19 and 18 additional deaths linked to the novel coronavirus on Thursday.The Health Department says 1,860 people in hospital have the disease, including 632 who were admitted specifically because of COVID-19.It says 45 patients are in intensive care with the disease, a rise of two from the day before.Officials add that 7,236 health-care workers are currently off the job due to COVID-19.The province is reporting 2,457 new cases detected through PCR testing, which remains limited to certain high-risk groups. It says an additional 651 positive at-home self tests were reported through a government website.Dr.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was charged with murder Thursday in the deaths of his wife and younger son, who were fatally shot outside their home more than a year ago.Murdaugh is already jailed and faces dozens of criminal charges that have piled up in the months since his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, were killed. But until now he had not been charged in connection with his wife and son's deaths.The indictments handed up by a grand jury in Colleton County, where the shootings happened, contend Murdaugh killed his wife with a rifle and his son with a shotgun.

PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in broad daylight in West Philadelphia on Thursday morning. According to authorities, a 35-year-old man was shot multiple times throughout his body on the 5000 block of Osage Avenue around 9:52 a.m. Medics pronounced him dead on scene just before 10 a.m., officials say. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESAuthorities say no arrests were made and no weapon has been recovered. SKYFOX flew over the area and observed cars and crime scene tape could be seen. 

In this photo illustration a Twitter logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen with Twitter logo in the background in Athens, Greece on July 11, 2022. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Twitter appeared to suffer a major global outage on Thursday morning, according to user reports.The website DownDetector.com, which shares user-reported issues on websites and other platforms, showed thousands of complaints over Twitter’s app, website, and even its TweetDeck app.Issues appeared to begin around 8:05 a.m.

Hockey Canada says it is in the process of making changes.Whether those moves will be enough to satisfy the general public, fans, federal government and corporate sponsors remains to be seen.The sport’s under-fire national federation made a series of announcements in an open letter to Canadians published Thursday, including the reopening of a third-party investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of the country’s 2018 world junior team.Hockey Canada said participation in the investigation by the players in question is mandatory, adding anyone who declines will be banned from all of the federation’s activities and programs effective immediately. Sexual violence is deeply rooted in Canadian sports, experts say.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say four teenagers are in the hospital after they were shot in North Philadelphia on Thursday morning. According to Philadelphia Chief Inspector Scott Small, the incident happened just before 2 a.m.Police say officers with the 6th District responded to numerous 911 calls reporting gunshots and a shooting near 7th and Wallace Streets. When police and medics arrived on scene, they found four shooting victims in the courtyard of the Spring Garden Homes, according to authorities. Small says two of the shooting victims ran inside a property of the Spring Garden Homes after being shot. According to police, the victims were two teenage boys and two teenage girls. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESAuthorities say all of the teenagers are in critical but stable condition and they are expected to be okay. Small says a 16-year-old girl sustained a serious gunshot wound to the face, while a 14-year-old girl was also shot in the face. The boys, ages 13 and 15, were shot in their arms and legs, according to officials.   Small says 21 spent shell casings from a semi-automatic weapon were found in the courtyard of the complex. Investigators say they believe all four of the victims were standing near the home where two of the teens live. According to police, a revolver was also found on the scene, but they do now know how it relates to the shooting. Authorities say they do not have a motive at this time, but said they will check cameras in the area. This shooting came a few hours after another quadruple shooting in West Philadelphia that left several people injured, including a 2-year-old. It also comes at a time when the city has implemented a curfew for children and teens under 18.

PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating after quadruple shooting left four people, including one child, injured in West Philadelphia late Wednesday night.A 26-year-old man was found shot in the leg at Creighton Street and Wyalusing Avenue where police say shots were fired around 10:30 p.m. He is said to be in critical conditions.Just a block away, police say two 20-year-old women and two children were found inside a Kia SUV riddled with gunfire.Both women are in critical condition after police say the driver was shot in the back, and the passenger shot in the head.Two children were in the backseat of the car as at least 10 shots were fired, according to police.Police say a 2-year-old boy was shot in the leg, and is in stable condition.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A neighborhood tradition is on hold this year and COVID-19 is not to blame.The West Fest Block Party was supposed to start on Saturday at the Sayre Rec Center in West Philadelphia, but organizers pulled the plug after recent gun violence in the city. The decision is causing quite the controversy as some neighbors are disappointed that the party is off, while others say no one should take any chances right now. "I’m very angry, and I think it’s unfair that we didn’t have a say in it," said Nadia Salaam, a mother in the neighborhood. "We're talking about a block party that was supposed to bring unified love that owe have in the city." MORE HEADLINES:Corey Ford agrees with Salaam as he says he feels cheated that his four kids will miss out. "No, I don’t think they should have canceled it," said Ford.

PHILADELPHIA - The attorney for a 13-year-old who reportedly turned herself in for the deadly attack of an elderly man is speaking out after she was released Wednesday.She was one of seven juvenile suspects wanted in connection to the death of 73-year-old James Lambert, who was beaten to death with a traffic cone in North Philadelphia last month.Four of those suspects have turned themselves into police this week, including two brothers aged 10 and 14, a 14-year-old girl and 13-year-old girl.Two of the teens will reportedly face murder and conspiracy charges: the 14-year-old boy identified as Richard Jones and the 14-year-old girl, who has yet to be identified. The 10-year-old was released after not receiving any charges.Police say a 14-year-old girl, who was a person of interest in the beating death of James Lambert Jr., has turned herself in.  (Philadelphia Police Department)The 13-year-old was also released with no charges Wednesday after her attorney Donte Mills claims investigators decided she didn't cause Lambert's death."She took a stand in that moment, and in fact, tried to push people away," Mills said.

Today we are reporting 11,382 community cases, 765 current hospitalisations, and 23 deaths.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Japan’s Panasonic Corp. selected Kansas as the location for a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other carmakers, Gov.

Police looking for group of suspects in string of high-end vehicle thefts in New Jersey AVALON, N.J. - High-end vehicles have become the target of a recent crime operation in at least one Jersey Shore town.Police say they received reports that four high-end vehicles were stolen in Avalon during the early morning hours Tuesday.Surveillance footage shows five suspects police are looking for in connection to the thefts.

Man tried to jump counter during bank robbery, police say. PRINCETON, N.J. - Police have released photos they say capture the moment an attempted bank robber failed to jump a bank counter not once, but twice!The suspect was seen entering the TD Bank on State Road on July 6.

BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 15: Geon-yeong "Steal" Moon of DetonatioN FocusMe competes at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Groups Stage on May 15, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games via Getty Images) People who play video games have more activity in certain parts of their brains than those who don’t, and a new study suggests video games could be used to teach better decision-making skills.Researchers at Georgia State University looked at 47 college-aged participants for the study — 28 video game players and 19 non-players.

Damage from flash flooding in Buchanan County, Virginia, is seen from the air on July 13, 2022. (VDEM/Twitter) BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. - Swift water rescue crews are searching for dozens of people in the rural mountainous region of western Virginia after storms dumped more than half a foot of rain over Tuesday evening.The Virginia Department of Emergency Management and local rescue crews are going door-to-door in the area around Pilgrims Knob in search for flooding victims.The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office said as many as 40 people were missing, but crews have not been able to make contact with all the residents in the impacted zone.Officials said landslides have closed access to many roadways, making access difficult.Water still covers part of a road in Buchanan County, Virginia, on July 13, 2022, after flash flooding in the area overnight.

Covid-19 continues to spread across Scotland and it is important to nourish the body while recovering from the virus. This is especially crucial, as recent figures show nearly a quarter of cases reported in the week ending July 10 were found to be reinfections.

COVID-19 cases worldwide rose last week for the fifth week in a row, fueled by two more-transmissible Omicron variants, BA.4 and BA.5, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its latest update.

Mugshots of Da'Torrance Leanders Hackworth and Antonio DeWayne Dean Jr. (Escambia County Sheriff's Office) A Florida homeowner will "absolutely not" face charges after firing an "AK-47-style gun" at suspected home invaders, a local sheriff said. "He started shooting for his own protection, to get them out of his house and to protect himself," Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said of the recent shooting in a video address posted to the office's official Facebook page. Simmons said three men, including one armed with a gun, entered a home in Escambia County just ahead of midnight on July 7.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Reptiles are common in Florida, but one South Florida woman received an unexpected visitor…inside her toilet – a large iguana.Michelle Reynolds, who lives in Hollywood, Florida, said she found the iguana hanging out in her toilet late Saturday night, according to a post on her Facebook page."Walked into this last night," she wrote.She contacted Harold at Iguana Lifestyles, who specializes in removing green iguanas.

FILE IMAGE - General view of Honda Civic cars lines up ready for export on Dec. 10, 2020.

High angle view of a volcanic crater, Vesuvius, Campania, Italy (Photo by DEA / PUBBLI AER FOTO/De Agostini via Getty Images) CAMPANIA, Italy - A man survived a terrifying experience after falling into Mount Vesuvius while trying to retrieve his cell phone last weekend, according to multiple reports.NBC News identified the survivor of the accident as 23-year-old Phillip Carroll. The outlet first reported that the Maryland resident and his two family members traveled to Vesuvius using a trail off limits to visitors.Once the family made it to the top of the volcano, Carroll stopped to take a selfie when he dropped his phone into the volcano.

The number of patients in Scottish hospitals with coronavirus has risen by 15 per cent in a week, despite a fall in cases, new figures show. While the latest data from Public Health Scotland (PHS) shows a drop in overall cases for the second week in a row, the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 increased to 1,669.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - More than 20 years after an unknown young boy was found dead in a South DeKalb County cemetery, Georgia law enforcement have made a breakthrough in the mystery of the child's identity and alleged murder.At a press conference Wednesday, the DeKalb County District Attorney identified the boy as 6-year-old William Dashawn Hamilton, a boy who had recently moved to the Atlanta area from Charlotte, North Carolina with his mother."At every turn this case ran cold, until now," DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said.On Feb. 26, 1999, a cemetery worker preparing for a funeral found the boy laying in a field. Investigators discovered someone laid out his body.