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Amid overcrowding concerns, ACCT Philly is paying people to foster dogs
This story originally appeared on 6abc. It’s a challenge that usually comes with the summer season: overcrowding at animal shelters. But shelters say this year is even worse. “Last year in May and June we took in 60 dogs under seven months old. This year we took in 125,”...
National Weather Service Adamant That It Snowed in Philly Sunday
Sometimes those weather forecasters are hard to believe. That's because their predictions are wild. This time, the weather forecasters are hard to believe, because they're telling us that something already happened. Something that happened that's really hard to believe. Weather Service says it snowed in Philadelphia on Sunday. The National...
$2500 Wieland Scholarship for HS Students and Undergrads Pursuing Nursing, Due: 7/23
Background: Wieland has created the Wieland Healthcare Nursing Scholarship to help future nurses who want to make a difference in healthcare. This scholarship is for high school seniors planning to study nursing and college students already studying nursing. Eligibility:. 🎓 High school seniors planning to go into nursing. 📚...
Country cookin’ restaurant ‘Flannel’ offers happy hour with Passyunk Passeggiata Thursdays
After years of cooking around the world, Mark Grica opened his own restaurant, Flannel on East Passyunk Avenue, and every Thursday, he invites customers to dine inside or outside as part of the Passyunk Passeggiata. “We have a large happy hour menu as it is, but we’re just pushing it...
Lightning zaps over Philadelphia skyline
Remarkable lightning appeared over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, late on July 16. Footage taken by Kory Aversa shows lightning spidering over the city skyline. The National Weather Service advised residents to take shelter immediately due to danger posed by lightning. The storm knocked down trees and power lines, leaving thousands without power, local media reported. Credit: Kory […]
Drive-by shooting hits man trying to park, nearby home in Kensington: police
PHILADELPHIA - A 24-year-old man was rushed to the hospital after police say more than a dozen shots were fired from a vehicle in Kensington overnight. Officers arrived to find the victim walking on the 2000 block of East Atlantic Street with a gunshot wound to his forehead. He told...
Pedestrian killed in Port Richmond in crash involving driver wanted out of Bucks County
A driver wanted in Bucks County was captured after a tragic accident in Philadelphia's Port Richmond section.The victim was standing behind a parked van on the corner of Frankford and Allegheny avenues around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday when he was struck.The crash happened just two blocks from his home.Police say surveillance video shows the car the wanted man was driving was traveling east on Allegheny Avenue when the vehicle jumped the curb, slammed into a concrete barrier, then a metal barrier before hitting a 38-year-old man.The victim was launched roughly 30 feet into the intersection, police say.The pedestrian died at the scene.ALSO SEE: 30-year-old woman on bike killed after being struck by speeding driver in Center City PhiladelphiaThe driver is a 41-year-old man, according to police. His identity has not yet been released.He was not injured.Police are not saying why there was a search warrant for the driver in Bucks County.RELATED: Check the 6abc Neighborhood Safety Tracker
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