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Girard College Freedom Fighter Re-Enactment, Facebook Friend Verifier App, North Wales Shooting

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 05/01/15 9:37 am | updated: 05/01/15 9:37 am

Fifty years ago today, young people led by then NAACP President Cecil B. Moore began an act of defiance that opened the gates of Girard College to students of color. The protests began in the wee hours of May 1, 1965. They stopped marching when the city sued to admit black students, and celebrated three years later when the school welcomed its first black students. The Freedom Fighters will spend Friday morning re-enacting that historic march at Girard College.

There's now an app to check if Facebook friends are sex offenders. Pew Research reports the average teen has about 300 Facebook friends, but likely doesn't know all of them well. Rob Zidar, co-founder of "Third Parent" - a Flemington-based company that will audit your teen's online activities, says the app "Friend Verifier" can be useful to teach teens and tweens the dangers of friend collecting. The friend finder app accesses Facebook contacts and it checks their names against the national database of sex offenders.

Police are investigating a shooting in North Wales, Montgomery County. At about 6:47 p.m. Thursday, officials say police received a 911 call of a domestic dispute on the 800 block of Karens Court in North Wales. Officers arrived and found a woman outside with an apparent gunshot wound. She was medevaced to the hospital. There is no word on her condition. Officials say officers found a male inside the home deceased.

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