Philly cops fired over offensive Facebook posts can pursue First Amendment claim, court rules

Daniel Shannon booking photo (SC Dept. of Corrections) COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina prisoner serving a life sentence for murder orchestrated killing a man he thought robbed a drug runner for a methamphetamine ring the inmate was running from behind bars, federal prosecutors said.Daniel Allen Shannon was sentenced to life in federal prison earlier this month for the killing, but the only way he will end up in federal custody is if he is released from his life-without-parole sentence in state court from a 2001 murder.Shannon ran his drug ring from prison using contraband cellphones.

Jamie Foxx returned to social media months after a scary on-set incident left him hospitalised, to update fans on his latest movie.

PHILADELPHIA - Surveillance video obtained by FOX 29 captured the moment a tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline crashed on an exit ramp under I-95 in Philadelphia and burst into flames.The resulting fire eventually caused the northbound lanes of the heavily trafficked interstate to collapse, and the southbound lanes damaged beyond repair.The video shows the tanker truck getting off the exit ramp at Cottman Avenue and crashing as it navigated a left-hand curve that led it back under the highway.  State police say the truck overturned -rupturing the tank – and burst into flames.Officials say the truck was carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline at the time of the crash. Family members shave since identified the driver of the truck as Nathaniel Moody.The 53-year-old was delivering the fuel to local gas stations in his personal truck while working for a company based in Pennsauken, according to family members.

BERKS COUNTY - What began as a fight at a house party, ended with a shooting involving three teenage boys over the weekend.A 15-year-old and 17-year-old were walking on Reading Avenue in Berks County when they were struck by bullets coming from a car that pulled up beside them.They were treated for gunshot wounds at a local hospital, but their conditions are not known.Police later identified a 14-year-old boy from Montgomery County as the shooter, according to the DA's office.MORE HEADLINES:The suspect told police that the shooting was in response to a physical fight at house party nearby.

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MARLTON, N.J. - Authorities say they have completely contained one of the two forest fires burning in the New Jersey Pinelands, while the other remains mostly contained.The New Jersey Forest Fire Service announced Monday that the fire in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in Burlington County remains at 1.3 square miles (3.4 square kilometers) and warned that smoke may still be visible for an extended period of time while firefighters work to mop up remaining hotspots.

Interstate 95 remains closed indefinitely in Philadelphia after an overpass section collapsed on Sunday following a fiery tanker truck crash. Pennsylvania's transportation officials will probably draw lessons learned from a similar incident in Atlanta in 2017.On Thursday, March 30, 2017, a massive fire was intentionally set under a section of the Interstate 85 viaduct.

fentanyl overdose less than a week before the appointment.“Some people say the system is simply broken. But the truth is, the system we need doesn’t even exist,” she said.The Diamond family, well known for their philanthropy around the province, is donating $20 million towards a new model for addictions treatment based out of Vancouver’s St.

PHILADELPHIA - Motorists who frequently use Interstate 95 should prepare to reroute their commute for the foreseeable future as crews work to repair a collapsed stretch of highway. "Just devastating honestly, the traffic is already pretty bad because 95 has been under construction for a while," Emily Orlando from Northeast Philadelphia told FOX 29.Officials say the collapse happened Sunday morning when a tanker truck hauling gasoline overturned underneath an overpass and exploded, causing the highway above to give way. The driver of the truck, identified told FOX 29 by family members as Nathaniel Moody, was killed in the explosion. Miraculously, however, there were no reported injuries to motorists or bystanders. RELATED COVERAGEOfficials said the southbound side of the highway will need to be demolished and rebuilt along with the northbound lanes.

Ukraine war entered a new phase over the weekend.After more than 15 months, the Canadian government ordered the seizure on Saturday of the Russian-registered cargo aircraft as a direct response to Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour that began in February 2022.This is the first physical asset of Russia that will be captured by Ottawa under the asset forfeit law and the second under Canada’s overall sanctions regime.Here is a look back at the developments, and at what happens next.The Antonov 124 aircraft landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Feb.

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - Police are looking for a man they say carried out at least two crimes in different sections of Bucks County in the span of just a few hours.A broken window was found when police responded to an alarm at Meineke Mufflers on Easton Road in Plumstead Township earlier this month.Police say the suspect threw a landscape rock through the window before rummaging around the shop.

Reining in government spending could take some of the pressure off the Bank of Canada in tamping down inflation and help limit pain for debt-ridden Canadians, according to a new report from CIBC.

(FOX 9)LOCKPORT, N,Y. - Search operations are currently underway after a tour boat capsized Monday in the Erie Canal in upstate New York. According to the Lockport Police Department, the boat belonged to the Lockport Cave Tours.Police said several fire departments have responded to the scene as well. Surrounding streets have been closed. According to the company's website, the tour boats travel along the Erie Canal and "is an exciting 75-minute historic guided walking tour through America’s past."FOX Television Stations has reached out to the company for comment. This is a developing story.

firefighters from the European Union will soon be on the ground in Quebec to help their Canadian counterparts tackle a devastating and unprecedented wildfire season.One hundred and nine fire crews from France arrived last Thursday and spent the weekend dousing flames in Quebec, where fires have forced nearly 14,000 people to flee their homes.Another 140 firefighters from Portugal and 97 from Spain are due to arrive in Quebec City on Wednesday, said Claire Kowalewski, the European Union Emergency Response Coordination Centre’s liaison officer in Canada.It’s the first time in the centre’s 22-year history that it has sent firefighters to help in Canada, Kowalewski said.“There is this solidarity,” she said. “Today, unfortunately, it’s Canada that is facing these terrible fires.

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - Fire crews responded to a two-alarm fire that tore through a business in Camden County on Monday morning. According to fire officials, the blaze broke out inside a commercial building on the 7500 block of Route 130 North in Pennsauken just before 5 a.m. Authorities say several agencies, including crews from Cherry Hill, Cinnaminson, Merchantville, Mount Ephraim, and Westmont, responded to the fire and a second alarm was issued, causing crews to use defensive tactics. Officials say no injuries were reported and the fire remains under investigation by the Pennsauken Fire Marshal's Office. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESRt.

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PHILADELPHIA - Drivers began longer commutes Monday after an elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed in Philadelphia a day earlier following damage caused by a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo catching fire.Sunday's fire closed a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast’s main north-south highway indefinitely. Newscasts warned of traffic nightmares and gave advice on detours, urging drivers to take more time to travel."This is really going to have a ripple effect throughout the region," AAA spokesperson Jana Tidwell said Monday.

FILE : A woman picks up free COVID-19 test self-collection kits from the OC Health Care Agency after arriving on a flight at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. ( Allen J.

coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, making it the lowest single-day rise in cases in the last four months. Active cases have declined to 2,350, as per an update by the health ministry on Monday. Total reported cases since the pandemic emerged in India in early 2020 stand at more than 4.49 crore and death toll at 531,891.

national open, holing a 72-foot eagle putt on the fourth playoff hole to beat Tommy Fleetwood in the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday.Taylor tossed his putter into the air and jumped into the arms of his caddie after the longest made putt of his PGA Tour career.WALK-OFF WINNER FROM 72 FEET!

Colombian Military Forces pose for a photo as they found four children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed, in the department of Caqueta on June 9, 2023. (Photo by Colombian Military Forces / Handout/Anadolu Agency via BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died.The siblings, aged 13, 9, 4 and 1, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue Friday, but some are already speaking and wanting to do more more than lie in bed, relatives said.Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, told reporters outside the hospital Sunday that the oldest of the four siblings — 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy — had described to him how their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed on May 1 in the Colombian jungle.RELATED: Children missing for 40 days after plane crash in Amazon jungle found aliveRanoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: "Go away," apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive.

Vineyards in Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia, on Friday, May 6, 2022. The Hunter Valley is one of huge contrasts, with bucolic century-old vineyards along the winding Hunter River bookended by some 40 operating mines to the west and the worlds l CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A bus carrying wedding guests rolled over on a foggy night in Australia's wine country, killing 10 people and injuring 25, police said Monday.The 58-year-old driver was arrested and being held at a Cessnock police station and will be charged, Police Assistant Commissioner Tracy Chapman said.

Mount Mayon spews lava during an eruption near Legazpi city in Albay province, south of Manila on June 11, 2023. (Photo by Charism Sayat / AFP) (Photo by CHARISM SAYAT/AFP via Getty Images) DARAGA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippines' most active volcano has begun spewing lava in a gentle eruption, putting thousands of people on heightened alert for the possibility of a violent explosion that would force them to suddenly evacuate from their homes, authorities said Monday.More than 12,000 villagers have left their homes so far in mandatory evacuations from the mostly poor farming communities within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius of Mayon volcano's crater in northeastern Albay province.

carbon price should go ahead as planned, two economists say, even as consumers across Canada are struggling amid the rising cost-of-living and feeling the impacts of a Bank of Canada rate increase.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, economists pointed to the wildfire smoke engulfing large parts of the continent as a reminder that the climate crisis is still unfolding.“I think at a time when the country is burning and we’re not sure what the future is existentially, we need to do something very serious about climate change,” Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers, said.She added, “And a carbon tax is something that had had at one point cross-party support. So, let’s just do something.

NYPD Friday while a beekeeper removed tens of thousands of bees from the popular tourist hub.Video from Michal Samuni Blank shows the bees buzzing in the air and also lining buildings in massive quantities.She told Storyful that it briefly felt "like a smoke of bees, because they were everywhere, all you saw was bees."READ MORE: Bee attack forces man to collapse on live TV in LA"Nobody got stung, nobody got hurt, I had bees all over me and none of them were harmful," Blank said.They swarmed for about 15 minutes before a beekeeper came in and carefully removed them from buildings.It’s not the first time bees have invaded Times Square.In 2021, the NYPD’s resident beekeeper, Officer Mays, removed 25,000 bees from Times Square and brought them to a "safe location."READ MORE: Battery Park City's 'Air Bee n Bees' provide native bees with homes in NYCIn 2018, hundreds of bees had to be vacuumed into a container after gathering on top of a hot dog stand as bystanders watched.A year earlier, a swarm of thousands of bees landed on a window ledge.Beekeeper Andrew Coté told CBS in 2018 that bees typically swarm "because they're overcrowded or it's too hot, and there's a lot of overcrowding in New York."

SOUNION, Greece - It was the hardest mission Greek researcher Kostas Thoctarides said he had ever undertaken.After a 25-year search, the mysterious disappearance of British WWII submarine H.M.S. Triumph is coming to light after it was found more than 650 feet below the blue waters of the Aegean Sea.

short-term rentals are renewing scrutiny on the role platforms such as Airbnb play in making housing less affordable for some Canadians.Experts who spoke to Global News say there’s a clear correlation between the prominence of short-term rentals in a city and the affordability of rents and home prices, while a spokesperson for Airbnb says there’s no proof that the platform is making housing more expensive for local residents.Pushes to regulate the short-term rental market like new legislation passed this week in Quebec, however, are showing promise to experts who monitor the impact of Airbnb and others on improving housing affordability in Canada.Quebec’s new regulations and the conversation about housing affordability in Canada come as Airbnb itself is projecting a “much larger return to summer travel.”Nathan Rotman, Airbnb’s regional lead in Canada and the northeastern United States, says much of the travel demand in Canada observed by the platform comes from budget-conscious Canadians who are travelling domestically but nonetheless want to get out of the house this summer after years of pandemic disruptions.“We’re definitely seeing people return to urban centres in a way that they hadn’t at the height of the pandemic, when they were looking to reconnect with family and friends and book something much more rural and remote,” he tells Global News.Bram Gallagher is an economist with AirDNA, a third-party site that scrapes data from Airbnb and Expedia-owned competitor VRBO to track the short-term rental market for investors and the platform’s hosts.Gallagher confirms Rotman’s read on the short-term rental market: “demand is up,” he tells Global News.April, for example, saw 1.4 million short-term rental stays in Canada, up

Police vehicles drive along El Paseo del Prado street in Havana, on November 15, 2021. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images) China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence-gathering capabilities, according to a Biden administration official.The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the U.S.

New Delhi India has reported 140 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data stated on Sunday. Meanwhile, the number of active caseloads stands at 2,450 taking the total number of covid cases to over 4.49 crore For the past one month, the covid cases have drastically declined after surge due to XBB.1.16 Omicron variant. The covid pandemic which started in early 2020 has killed around 5,31,891 people in India so far.

Donald Trump found himself looking at something he had no clearance to see.Spilled on the floor of a storage room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and estate — a room easily accessible from the pool patio, and near a liquor supply closet and other high-traffic areas — were allegedly the contents of several boxes of documents Trump had brought to Florida from Washington at the end of his presidency.The boxes had been moved into the storage room from other parts of the club, including a ballroom and bathroom, at Trump’s direction the previous summer, according to a federal indictment that was unsealed Friday.That indictment says one of the documents on the floor was marked “SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY” — a classification marking that indicated the information could only be viewed by intelligence agencies within the Five Eyes alliance of Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.The aide, Walt Nauta, took two pictures of the mess with his phone and texted another employee of Trump, with the Five Eyes-only document in full view, the indictment states.“I opened the door and found this…” Nauta is quoted as having texted.“Oh no oh no,” the employee texted back.Trump’s alleged withholding of that document is one of the 37 federal criminal charges he’s now facing, accusing him of illegally retaining classified government documents after leaving the White House and then conspiring to obstruct a federal probe of the matter.Nauta, who worked for Trump at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, faces six counts in the case for allegedly helping to hide some of the sought-after materials and making false statements to investigators.The indictment presents a series of stunning examples of how Trump appears to have handled

PHILADELPHIA - All north and southbound lanes are completely closed after a fire broke out on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia Sunday morning.Video from the scene shows smoke and flames billowing from under the interstate as emergency crews arrive on the scene with traffic at a complete standstill in both directions.The fire is currently burning near Cottman Avenue and State Road in Northeast Philadelphia.Early reports state that a tanker trunk under the interstate caused the fire, and that part of the interstate has collapsed, but details have yet to be confirmed.It is also unknown if there are any injuries at this time.This is a developing story.