Philadelphia man charged in deadly shooting he claimed was accidental, police say

Fuel prices at a gas station in Woodbridge, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. From record prices to blowout spreads and falling stockpiles, a handful of financial and physical indicators are pointing to expensive and possibly tighter gasoli PHILADELPHIA - Gas prices continue to rise across the Delaware Valley, with all three states seeing an increase Wednesday night into Thursday. According to AAA, Pennsylvania's average pre increased by 2 cents overnight, pushing the average cost to $4.80 per gallon.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 1: Members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 54 picket on the Atlantic City Boardwalk in front of Caesars Hotel and Casino as they pass picket signs October 1, 2004 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Casino work ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Hundreds of Atlantic City casino workers picketed outside the Tropicana on Wednesday, as the union for employees at nine casinos is pushing for a new contract giving them a share of gambling halls' post-COVID recovery.The picketing comes at an uncertain time in Atlantic City: The casinos and their online partners are collectively making more money now than before the pandemic hit.But the casinos say those statistics are misleading because they get to keep only about 30% of online and sports betting money, with the rest going to their third-party partners.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Dramatic video shows a group of witnesses and police officers lifting a car to rescue a pinned motorcyclist who was hit in South Carolina. Police in Myrtle Beach said the incident happened Saturday afternoon along Ocean Boulevard. The video shows the car driver hitting two riders on a motorcycle from the rear. The passenger of the motorcycle was knocked off, but the driver of the bike became trapped under the car, along with the bike.Soon a crowd gathers and police officers arrive. RELATED: Suspected drunk driver crashes into police station, says she was ‘following her GPS’Several people then started pushing the car to lift it and free the motorcycle driver. "We are lucky to live and work in a community where everyone is ready to work together to help others," police said on their Facebook page.Authorities arrested the car’s driver and identified him as Johnny Taylor Jr.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating a drive-by shooting that injured a man in Center City on Wednesday night. Officials say officers with the Philadelphia Police Department and SEPTA Transit Police responded to the area of N 17th Street and John F Kennedy Boulevard just after 11 p.m. According to police, officers found a 19-year-old man on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds. SEPTA officers took the man to Jefferson Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition, according to authorities. Police say the man was shot in each arm and in the thigh. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESAccording to officials, 15 spent shell casings were found on the scene. Authorities say they are looking for a dark-colored vehicle that was traveling south on N 17th Street when it passed the victim and opened fire, shooting more than 15 times. The Corner Bakery Cafe, which is near the crime scene, was struck several times by gunfire, per authorities. The windows of the Corner Bakery Cafe in Center City were hit by gunshots during a drive-by shooting that injured a 19-year-old.  AdvertisementPolice say they are still working to determine if there were multiple shooters. 

NEW YORK - Four days of celebrations honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne will get underway Thursday with a display of British military traditions stretching from the days of horse and cannon to the jet age.Formal celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee begin with Trooping the Color, an annual military review that has marked the sovereign’s official birthday since 1760. The queen is expected to join the working members of her family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the end of the event, when 70 aircraft are set to roar overhead.The jubilee is being commemorated with a four-day holiday weekend.

Maharashtra recorded 1,081 fresh Covid-19 cases, the highest daily rise after February 24, and zero fatality, the state health department has said.  With fresh infections, the state's COVID-19 tally rose to 78,88,167 and the toll to 1,47,860. On Tuesday, the state recorded 711 cases and one COVID-19 fatality.  On February 24, Maharashtra recorded 1,124 infections.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The government is planning on presenting a supplementary estimate of Rs. 695 Bn to maintain essential services, on Wednesday to Parliament.It is expected to be presented by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as the Finance Minister.In addition, the Prime Minister will make a special statement to Parliament on the current status of the economy to the Parliament next Tuesday, and Party Leaders have agreed to debate the statement for two days.

A child sleeping on a soiled mattress, lack of access to basic dental care, and kids without proper clothes were among the major violations cited by ministry inspectors who visited Ontario children’s residences.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi tests positive for COVID-19.  “She has developed mild fever & some symptoms and has isolated herself and has been given requisite medical attention.

NEW DELHI: SBI General Insurance has launched a new health insurance vertical, through which the company plans to focus on new innovative health products, in-house claim settlement process, among others, to boost customer experience.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Party leaders will be meeting in Parliament on Thursday (2) at 9.30 am.The next Parliamentary Week and the Bills to be debated will be discussed at the meeting.Parliament is scheduled to reconvene on the 7th of June at 10 AM.

The regulator has now extended the 'Use and File' or U&F procedure for all health insurance products and almost all general insurance products.

The World Health Organization said it had no access to data about North Korea's Covid-19 outbreak, but assumed the crisis was deepening, contrary to Pyongyang's reports of "progress".

COVID-19death toll has climbed to5,24,641, with five latest fatalities reported from Kerala,the ministry dataupdatedat 8 am stated. Theactive casescomprised 0.05 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, the health ministry said.

Canada is leaning toward a new era of 1970s-style stagflation as the pace of economic growth slows yet inflation remains stubbornly high, economists say.

A gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people Wednesday at a Tulsa, Okla., medical building on a hospital campus, police said, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.

PHILADELPHIA - With the heat comes car issues and a lot of construction that can do some real damage to your tires and wheels.Several motorists reach out to FOX 29 recently about damage to their car from a project on I-95 near Woodhaven and Academy roads.Kevin Millevoi, from Millevoi’s Tire and Automotive, says he gets about three cars a day with tire and wheel damage from roads in the area."More flat tires this year than I think any other year in the past," Millevio said. "The potholes are bigger and deeper and there are more of them out there."The sound of summer for many motorists is a clunk that means a trip to the mechanic.Samir Whiting is looking at a $380 repair after he said his tire went flat on I-95."Due to the construction on I-95 it’s causing a lot of tire damage to a lot of the citizens of Philadelphia," Whiting said.He said several people were in the same shop this morning with damage to their cars."Some of the other tires they were cars, I have an SUV," Whiting said.  "My tire wasn’t as bad theirs, but it could have been worse if I rode on it a little longer."MORE LOCAL HEADLINESMillevoi said the salt wears away at the roads, and you can mess your car up pretty quickly driving on an uneven highway."They get that drop in the asphalt 2-3 inches you really gotta be careful going over that," Millevoi said.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - As a nation reels last week's horrific school shooting in Texas, some local volunteers are just back from Uvalde. Comfort and calm through canines, after unimaginable trauma, Texas."It’s very emotional, it really is," stated John Hunt, Chief Operations Officer with Crisis Response Canines.Hunt and his teammates from Crisis Response Canines, a non-profit organization based in Sicklerville, New Jersey, just returned home from a six-day deployment to Uvalde following the mass murder of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.RELATED HEADLINES:"We were directly involved with a lot of the children.

new survey, researchers found that more than half of respondents have blocked at least one family member on Facebook, with 54.8% of survey users admitting to blocking the person on the social media platform.The survey, conducted by Time2play earlier this month, asked over 2,000 users of Facebook and Instagram in the United States if and why they blocked a family member on social media. According to the results, 46.4% of respondents cited the posting of "hateful, toxic or problematic things" as the top reason for blocking the person. Meanwhile, other top reasons include sharing fake news (43.5%) and positing too much political content (41.4%).In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen (Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) On Instagram, the study found only 25.8% of Instagram users admit to blocking a family member on the platform. As for why Instagram users block their family members, we found they were motivated by concealing their own content from family members, rather than avoiding what their family members were posting.The study also found that the average age of an Instagram user who has blocked a family member was 26.1 years, compared to 32.7 years old for those who have blocked a family member on Facebook.Facebook currently boasts over 240 million active users in the U.S.

Today we are reporting 7,870 community cases, 393 current hospitalisations, and 13 deaths. 

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are searching for a man who they say stabbed another person when a fight aboard a SEPTA train spilled onto the platform Wednesday night. A SEPTA spokesperson said the suspect and two younger men, believed to be teenagers, got into a fight on a Broad Street Line train. The fight continued onto the platform a Fairmount Station where police say the suspect stabbed one of the young men with a knife. The victim and the other young man fled the station, according to police.

PESCADERO, Calif. - A mountain lion was safely removed from a high school it had entered earlier on Wednesday morning, officials say. Despite the scare, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said all students and staff were safe.The 4 to 6-month-old big cat was removed from Pescadero High School by California Department of Fish and Wildlife crews. The sheriff's office tweeted that everyone was safe at about 9:30 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - A veteran Philadelphia homicide detective was convicted of sexually assaulting or exploiting three male witnesses in a case that has led prosecutors to review dozens of homicide convictions.Former detective Philip Nordo, 56, was taken into custody after the jury verdict Wednesday. A 2019 grand jury report accused him of using his position to intimidate and groom male suspects and witnesses into sexual acts.The investigation has already contributed to the reversal of several homicide convictions, including one involving a special needs athlete killed over his headphones."We are going to hold people accountable, civilian or law enforcement, when they commit terrible crimes," District Attorney Larry Krasner said Wednesday.

Toronto Police Service (TPS) says members of the force who were placed on unpaid leave for failing to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement will return to duty late this month.In a statement emailed to Global News on Wednesday, TPS Const. Alex Li said the service “continues to ensure that our workplaces remain safe, which includes continued COVID-19 measures as appropriate.”Li said the force’s decision to rescind its COVID-19 mandatory vaccination requirement was “made in response to the current public health and occupational health context of the pandemic and the unique nature of its work and workplaces.” More than 200 Toronto police members placed on unpaid leave as vaccine mandate takes effect  The force said 99 per cent of its members are fully vaccinated and new hires are “required to be fully vaccinated.”Li said members who are currently on unpaid absence will “return to duty on June 21, 2022.”“Officers will be deployed as operationally required by the Service and civilian members will return to their original roles,” the email reads.In November 2021, the force said 205 members, 117 uniform and 88 civilian, were placed on unpaid leave for either not being vaccinated, or not disclosing their vaccination status.According to Li, as of Wednesday, 101 people will be returning to duty.

VAN NUYS, Calif. - A 16-year-old student was rushed to the hospital after being shot outside a high school in the San Fernando Valley Wednesday afternoon.SkyFOX was over the heavy police scene outside Grant High School in Van Nuys. The Los Angeles Police Department says a 16-year-old boy was shot while crossing the street in front of the school near the intersection of Oxnard Street and Coldwater Canyon a little before 3:30 p.m. Officials tell FOX 11 that the shooting victim was a Grant High School student.The shooting prompted a lockdown at Grant High School before going into what police call a "modified dismissal" after 4 p.m.

GLENDALE, AZ - DECEMBER 25: Runningback Marion Barber #24 of the Dallas Cowboys walks the sidelines during the NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals at the University of Phoenix Stadium on December 25, 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals defeat FRISCO, Texas - Former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III has died, according to the Cowboys."We are heartbroken by the tragic death of Marion Barber III.

U.S. armed forces.In a change of command ceremony in Washington, D.C., attended by President Joe Biden, Fagan relieved Adm. Karl Schultz as commandant of the Coast Guard.

PHILADELPHIA - Residents on both sides of the Delaware River have grown frustrated with the ground-shaking vibrations from ‘boom parties’ that locals say have become more common.‘Boom parties’ happen when large groups of people gather near the Delaware River and blast music from cars that are equipped with massive speakers. The vibrations shake nearby homes and the sound is strong enough to carry across the water to bother residents in neighboring states.Over the past several years, locals say the boom parties primarily happened on weekends.

Chinese fighter pilots in the skies above the Asia-Pacific region.Multiple sources in the Canadian Forces and the federal government tell Global News that Chinese jets are repeatedly “buzzing” a Canadian intelligence plane that is part of a United Nations mission over international waters.Those jets are frequently flying as close as 20 to 100 feet from the Canadian planes, sources say — so close that Canadian pilots can make eye contact with the Chinese pilots, and sometimes see them raising their middle fingers. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.“(That distance is) scary close at those high speeds, and it could lead to disaster in a crash,” said Charles Burton, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa.“You do it too much, and eventually, sometime, it’s going to go wrong.” As China pressed over Russia stance, Canada’s MPs revive special committee on ties The Canadian CP-140 Aurora plane is currently taking part in Operation Neon, part of UN efforts to prevent North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction.

Heavy police presence near Natalie Medical Building in Tulsa, Okla. on June 1, 2022.

COVID-19 in Alberta has dipped below 1,000.Data provided Wednesday from between May 24 and May 30 shows the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has dropped to 931. Of those people, 29 are being treated in intensive care.The last time there were fewer than 1,000 people in hospital with COVID-19 was on April 12, when 990 Albertans were hospitalized.Alberta Health reported 51 COVID-19 related deaths between May 24 and May 30.

EX TOWIE star Mario Falcone has wed his stunning bride Becky in a beautiful ceremony in Italy. The former love rat from the ITVBe show said I do to his 'Mrs' and shared some stunning photos of the newly-married pair on social media.

Pallbearers and US Marine Christian Garcia, son of Linda Garcia, carry the casket of Irma Linda Garcia and her husband Jose Antonio Garcia during their funeral mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas, on June 1, 2022. - Irma Garcia, a t UVALDE, Texas (AP) - Mourners gathered Wednesday at a Catholic church to say goodbye to Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia — who died in the shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, grade school — and her husband, Joe — who died two days later from a heart attack.Nineteen children and two teachers — Garcia and her co-teacher, 44-year-old Eva Mireles — were killed May 24 when an 18-year-old gunman burst into their classroom.

A woman blows her nose in Godewaersvelde, northern France on May 18, 2013, as the return of pleasant weather marks the arrival of allergenic pollen. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN (Photo by Philippe HUGUEN / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP via Getty WASHINGTON - A new study finds that people with food allergies may be less likely to become infected with COVID-19 than people without them.According to the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and published Tuesday in the "Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology," biweekly nasal swabs and weekly surveys were conducted for six months with more than 4,100 participants from nearly 1,400 households. The goal was to identify coronavirus infections between May 2020 and February 2021 — prior to the widespread rollout of COVID-19 vaccines among non-healthcare workers in the United States and before the widespread emergence of variants of concern.Participant and household infection and household transmission probabilities were calculated using time-to-event analyses, and factors associated with infection and transmission risk were determined using regression analysis.

JOBLESS ex-EastEnders star Dean Gaffney admitted drink-driving yesterday — blaming the pressure of finding work during the pandemic. The actor, 44, said he had been struggling to get a paying role and was living off his savings when police nabbed him.

TRENTON, N.J. - In New Jersey, many people are still dealing with last year’s Hurricane Ida damage. Many are calling for federal funding to help rebuild their lives. Hurricane Ida left many families in a desperate situation when it crashed into the Garden State nine months ago."Never did I think it would happen in my home," Shashuna Atwater said.

PEMBERTON, N.J. - Authorities say a small plane made a "rough landing" in a field Wednesday afternoon in Burlington County. The apparent emergency landing happened just after 5:30 p.m.

PITTSTON TWP, Pa. - Police in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania are responding to an active shooter situation near a Walmart Supercenter, according to local reports. At least one person was shot outside the store, which is off State Route 315. The suspect remains at large, FOX 56 reported. Officials described the suspect as a Black man with dreadlocks, wearing a blue shirt with white lettering. Traffic in the area was shut down while authorities responded to the scene.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Investigators are back on the scene of the deadly Pottstown house explosion. Nearly one week later, many questions remain about how it happened.A pile of debris is all that’s left of 453 and 455 Hale Street, where four children and a grandmother lost their lives in Thursday’s massive blast."Very, very loud explosion, another one behind it and a third one.

A retrospective study yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that pulse oximetry overestimated arterial oxygen saturation in racial and ethnic minority COVID-19 patients, leading clinicians to believe they weren't ill enough to be eligible for appropriate treatments.

Since peaking in January, COVID-19 cases worldwide have steadily fallen, dropping 11% last week compared with the week before, and COVID deaths have declined 3%, but cases continue to rise in the Americas region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly update.

The HSE is considering the "quality" of a draft report commissioned to examine the care of patients at a Dublin nursing home during Covid-19 before the report is "finalised".

The jury has returned a verdict in favor of Johnny Depp in his $50-million defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.The jury ruled that Heard defamed Depp with malicious intent in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed claiming that she was a victim of domestic abuse.Depp was awarded $15-million in total – $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.The jury also awarded Heard $2 million in compensatory damages, ruling that Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman defamed her when he called her abuse claims “a hoax” in a British newspaper.Depp, who is out touring, did not appear in the courtroom for the verdict. Heard, however, was in attendance and appeared stoic as the verdict was read.“The disappointment I feel today is beyond words,” Amber Heard said in a statement following the verdict.

Three COVID-19 vaccine doses offer good protection against infection and hospitalization, including those caused by variants of concern—regardless of brand, type, or combination, according to an ongoing meta-analysis published yesterday in BMJ.Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong searched 38 World

TREDYFFRIN, Pa. - Emergency crews responded to a Chester County golf course on Wednesday for reports of a small plane crash. The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. at the St.

Matteo Arriaga and Gia Cubler MEDIA, Pa. - Delaware County officials announce arrests and charges of two 20-year-old Delaware County residents with multiple felony counts of the production, distribution and possession of child sexual abuse material.Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer made the announcement Monday, saying 20-year-old Woodlyn resident Gia Michelle Cubler and 20-year-old Ridley Park resident Matteo Thomas Arriaga were also charged with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault with a person less than 10-years-old and other related charges."The couple charged in this case were engaged in the production of child pornography with infant victims. It is hard to truly express our outrage at such acts of moral depravity.

libel lawsuit against his ex-wife, but the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor wasn't in the courtroom when the verdict was read. The jury on Wednesday awarded Depp $15 million in damages – $10 million in compensatory and $5 million in punitive – and ordered Depp to pay Heard $2 million. The $2 million award for Heard is compensatory.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Johnny Depp and Amber Heard both won, in part, their defamation lawsuits, a jury announced on Wednesday after deliberating for about 12 hours over three days.After hearing weeks of testimony — including hours from both Depp and Heard themselves — the jury’s stunning decision found both defamation suits credible and awarded both actors millions of dollars in damages. Heard is to pay Depp $15 million, and Depp is to pay Heard $2 million.The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages, which is compensation for libel, and $5 million in punitive damages, which is the penalty for libel.