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| SEPTA Suspends Papal Visit Rail Sales; 68 Arrests Kensington Drug Sting; Union Boss Gets 19 Years |
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 by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/21/15 1:08 am | updated: 07/21/15 1:08 am |
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| SEPTA has suspended online sales of special passes for Regional Rail service during Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September due to technical problems. SEPTA had load tested the website over the weekend for 1,700 hits per seconds and expected a high volume of traffic when the passes went on sale at 9 a.m. Monday, but the actual traffic today was significantly higher and the servers couldn't keep up. The site was shutdown 90 minutes after it opened. SEPTA plans to sell 175,000... Read More |
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| Music News - Black Eyed Peas Homage Vid; Wilco Plays Star Wars in Chi; Thom Yorke With Portishead |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/20/15 7:23 am | updated: 07/20/15 7:23 am |
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The Black Eyed Peas are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year with members will.i.am, Taboo, and Apl.de.Ap (Fergie did not join until 2002). They've just released a music video for a track called "Yesterday" which features the three original members digging through the racks of a record store pulling out albums that have been influential to the group. The album covers become animated with the guys from BEP appearing in the album art instead of the original artist.
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| Drexel Grad Found Murdered in Apt; Pickpockets in Upper Merion; Police Shoot Suspect in North Philly |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/18/15 7:03 am | updated: 07/18/15 7:03 am |
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| The body of a young woman was found beaten and strangled inside her West Philadelphia apartment on Thursday afternoon. 27-year-old Jasmine Wright was found in her third floor unit on the 200 block of South 50th Street after a property manager checked on her at the request of her father. He is from Brooklyn and hadn't heard from her in a few days. She was pronounced dead at the scene around 2:35 p.m. Investigators believe she was dead for about 24 hours. Wright was a 2015 graduate from... Read More |
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| Music News - Free Surprise Wilco Album; Icona Pop New Single/EP; Alan Jackson on Tonight Show |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/17/15 4:46 am | updated: 07/17/15 4:46 am |
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Wilco has just released a surprise album via it's website wilcoworld.net called Star Wars. The 11-track LP runs about 33 minutes. It is also FREE to download right now. Just enter your e-mail at wilcoworld.net.
Star Wars track list:
1. "EKG"
2. "More…"
3. "Random Name Generator"
4. "The Joke Explained"
5. "You Satellite"Read More |
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| Four Marines Killed, Shooter ID'd; PATCO Papal Visit Passes; Radnor Man Arrested For Child Porn |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/16/15 9:12 pm | updated: 07/16/15 9:12 pm |
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| Four marines were killed in attacks on two separate military facilities a few miles apart in Chattanooga, TN, on Thursday by a lone gunman. The gunman was killed during a shootout at the second facility. He has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized US citizen from Kuwait. It began at 10:45 a.m. at a military recruitment station. The gunman drove up and opened fire, riddling the glass door with 30-50 shots. A marine and police officer were injured. He... Read More |
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| Music News - Arcade Fire The Reflektor Tapes Trailer; Kimbra New Video; Marian Hill in Rolling Stone |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/16/15 6:28 am | updated: 07/16/15 6:28 am |
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| Arcade Fire will release a feature film called The Reflektor Tapes in theaters worldwide on September 24th. The film was directed by 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Films winner Kahlil Joseph. According to their press release it "will be a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history." They have released a 45-second trailer for the film as well as an 8-minute segment set to the song “Porno.” The movie has a... Read More |
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| 4 Armed Suspects Caught on Tape; Villanova Expansion Project Approved; DRPA Bridge Discounts |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/15/15 10:41 pm | updated: 07/15/15 10:43 pm |
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| Philadelphia Police have released surveillance video of four armed suspects attempting a home robbery on the 500 block of Burnham Road on Tuesday night. It happened around 10:30 p.m. in West Mount Airy. The 32-year-old resident heard a knock on the door and opened it slightly. He saw another man appear with a gun and quickly shut and locked the door. He witnessed two others appear on the video camera. All four men were armed, three with handguns and one with a shotgun. They attempted to... Read More |
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| Music News - Thom Yorke Pre-Radiohead Videos; Lana Del Rey New Single; Listen to Moogfest 5-song EP |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/15/15 7:23 am | updated: 07/15/15 7:23 am |
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke played in the band Headless Chickens during his college days at the University of Exeter starting in the late 80's. Video of some of the band's performances at Exeter's Lemon Grove have surfaced. Watch Headless Chickens perform a Radiohead classic "High and Dry" off of 1995's The Bends years before it hits the masses:
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| Wilmington Car Chase Ends in Bus Crash; Airplane Lands on Rt. 72 NJ; Yandamuri Represent Himself |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/14/15 10:49 pm | updated: 07/14/15 10:49 pm |
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| A man being chased by police was killed after his car collided with a school bus this afternoon in Wilmington, DE. It happened around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 800 block of Delaware Avenue. Wilmington police spotted the man driving erratically through the city streets and attempted to pull him over but he sped off. At the point where 12th Street turns into Delaware Ave. the man lost control, hopped the median, and slammed into the bus. There were no children inside at the time. The bus... Read More |
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| 106TH NAACP Annual Convention Livestream - President Barack Obama |
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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 07/14/15 8:43 pm | updated: 07/14/15 8:43 pm |
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President Barack Obama will address the convention in Philadelphia and is expected to call for sweeping changes of the criminal justice system. Watch the live streaming broadcast below:
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Alvin Clay
