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Man charged with allegedly cutting off neighbors testicles gets $5 million bail

The resident of an assisted living facility in southwest Philadelphia who allegedly castrated another resident in a dispute with a woman Monday night is being held on $5 million bail for attempted murder. Edgar Bonilla, 41, allegedly cut off the testicles of a paraplegic who also lived at the Inglis Apartments at Elmwood in the 6200 block of Eastwick Avenue, according to the city ...
NHL mock draft Flyers nab a D-man with familiar ties

This draft is deep. How deep? It could be as deep as 2003 - when the Flyers drafted both Jeff Carter and Mike Richards in the first round. Only time will tell. And with that, here we ...
SPCA Dogs Bring Welcome Stress-Free Moments To Local Hospital Workers

(A dog up for adoption from the Pennsylvania SPCA gives health care workers at HUP a way to reduce stress, for a few moments at least. Credit: John ...
Philadelphia Police ID Suspect Charged With Severing Genitals Of Paraplegic Man

Police have identified the suspect charged with stabbing a paraplegic man multiple times and severing his genitals on Monday night. Forty-one-year-old Edgar Bonilla is charged with cutting the testicles off of a paraplegic resident at an assisted living facility on Eastwick Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia following an argument ...
Summer Activities Offered For Schoolkids Throughout Philadelphia’s Historic District

The ';Cabinetmaker’s Apprentices,'; as one duo is known, will greet visitors to Historic Philadelphia’s headquarters, in costume and with colonial shtick: ';I’ve never understood that ...

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X-Men: The Last Stand

I have a theory--probably not a very good one, but a theory nonetheless--as to why many critics and viewers have so much trouble taking director Brett Ratner seriously. Its his name. Think about the great director-icons of the cinema, and they invariably have impressive-sounding nam ... ...

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Delco Man Charged With Raping Ex Recording Crime On Her Cell Phone

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (CBS) — An Upper Darby man is behind bars after, according to police, he used his ex-girlfriend’s cell phone to record himself sexually assaulting the woman after she had passed out inside his mother’s home. Officials say 23-year-old Gaurave Kumar is charged with rape and related offenses in connection with the incident, which they say happened more than a ...
Fake flying Frenchman sentenced to time served in bizarre cockpit stunt

A Frenchman with a flair for the dramatic - and pretending to be a commercial pilot - was sentenced Tuesday to time served for his bizarre stunt inside the cockpit of a U.S. Airways plane at Philadelphia International Airport three months ago. Philippe Jeannard, 61, of La Rochelle, France, was arrested March 20 and pleaded guilty in early May to one count of fraud. No one was injured or ...
According to Nike LeBron James is already a two-time champion

Either Nike knows something that we don’t, or they are bound to anger some Spurs fans with a recent release. A recent mockup of Nike’s popular LeBron X model boasts a nice floral theme, along with an interesting message inscribed in the heel inserts. ...
Did the Flyers overpay Mark Streit

It would be easy to look at Streit’s new deal - a 4-year, $21 million pact - and say that the Flyers overpaid for the aging blue liner at first ...

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Building collapse in Philadelphia kills six

PHILADEPHIA - At least five women and a man have been killed in a Philadelphia building collapse even as a lucky 61-year-old woman was rescued from the rubble after 12 hours.

One of the biggest tragedies of the US city in living memory, the tragedy occurred Wednesday morning and by Thursday morning search-and-rescue workers had covered about 75 per cent of the site, Mayor Michael Nutter told reporters.

Search of the rest of the site was on till reports last came in.

The accident was caused as shoppers thronged the Salvation Army thrift store on a busy Wednesday morning.

The store crumbled under the weight of a next door building that was under demolition as an excavation crew ripped walls down allegedly jerking down a wrong beam with heavy machinery.

Bystanders rushed to help as blocks and bricks came crashing down.

Rescuers pulled out six bodies and packed them in bags.

As a pall of gloom engulfed the neighbourhood, there was a momentary joy when 61-year-old Myra Plekam was found alive under the rubble more than 12 hours after the collapse.

She was the 14th survivor of the accident who were all taken to three area hospitals.

Plekam was awake and talking to rescuers, before she was evacuated to a hospital in critical condition, said Deputy Fire Chief Robert Coyne. ...