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  • The elderly couple was critically injured in the fast-moving blaze in Burholme. Firefighters rescued them from the 2nd floor.
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  • Police say a 21-year-old male was shot in the arm in Northeast Philadelphia early Thursday morning.
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  • Shooting with assault rifle
  • Police have arrested the gunman who used an AK-47 to shoot up a Southwest Philadelphia strip club.
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  • Alligators and snakes were discovered by firefighters after a blaze broke out in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
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  • Police and FBI are asking for your help in identifying the man who robbed a bank in Philadelphia.
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  • Man sought in Citizens Bank robbery
  • Philadelphia police and the FBI are asking the public for help in identifying the suspect wanted for the robbery of a Citizens Bank branch.
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  • Police held a news conference Wednesday concerning three attacks targeting women in Juniata Park.
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  • Homicide in Southwest Philadelphia
  • A man was shot in the back and killed on Wednesday in Southwest Philadelphia.
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  • Gov. Corbett to release $45M for Philadelphia schools
  • Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday he has agreed to release $45 million for Philadelphia schools.
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  • A hearing has been postponed for a Philadelphia architect fighting a subpoena to turn over documents in a fatal building collapse.
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  • Spray paint vandals target cars, homes in Rhawnhurst
  • People living in Philadelphia's Rhawnhurst neighborhood woke up to an alarming discovery Wednesday.
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  • Gov. Corbett to release $45M for Phila. schools
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  • Click play to watch the report from Action News' Kenneth Moton
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  • Spray paint vandals target cars, homes in Rhawnhurst
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  • Philadelphia police are looking for the driver who slammed into three parked vehicles and took off in the city's Crescentville section.
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  • Just four days after a controversial YouTube video of police officer Phillip Nace surfaced comes yet another one.
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  • Suspects sought in $6,000 sneaker shop theft
  • Police are looking for the two men who stole more than $6,000 in merchandise from a Philadelphia store.
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  • Two men walking home were robbed of an Xbox and cash in the city's Strawberry Mansion section overnight.
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  • A mysterious donor has come to the rescue of a beloved library that was forced to shut down due to lack of money.
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  • The man accused of killing a Philadelphia police officer in a drunken, wrong-way crash on I-95 last year has pleaded guilty.
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  • What will you be for Halloween?
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  • Police say a barricade situation in North Philadelphia ended peacefully on Monday morning.
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  • Parents were busy on Monday morning, picking up documents and making alternate arrangements after a Philadelphia charter school suddenly closed.
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  • Police are looking for the two men who burglarized a pretzel store in Northeast Philadelphia.
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  • Fatal crash on the Roosevelt Boulevard
  • A driver was killed in a crash on Monday morning in Northeast Philadelphia.
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  • Former City Councilwoman Augusta Clark, a well-loved Philadelphia figure, has died. She was 81.
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  • Crews were called to battle a fire inside a Northeast Philadelphia nursing home.
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  • A woman is in critical condition after being struck by a van in North Philadelphia.
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  • A 21-year-old man was shot overnight in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia.
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  • Authorities say two people are dead after a motorcycle crash in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia.
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  • A traffic stop ended with a Philadelphia police officer having to go to the hospital.
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  • Officials say a woman was rescued and is in critical condition after a house fire in the city's Oxford Circle section.
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  • Police say a 5-year-old girl was struck by a car in Strawberry Mansion.
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  • Police are searching for 3 armed men in connection with a home invasion in North Philadelphia late Friday night.
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  • Police arrested two teens for vandalism at the Anthropologie store in the city's Rittenhouse Square section early Saturday morning.
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  • Hit and run in University City
  • Philadelphia police have released video of a Thursday night hit-and-run as the search continues for the driver.
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  • A Southwest Philadelphia man used quick thinking to give his younger brother CPR after the teen suffered a blood clot.
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  • Crash in Ogontz section of Philadelphia
  • Two people were rushed to the hospital on Friday morning after a multi-vehicle accident in the Ogontz section of Philadelphia.
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  • Solomon Charter School
  • A charter school in Philadelphia has announced it is closing, effective immediately.
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  • Driver extricated from car after hitting school bus
  • Seven people were injured, including five children, when a car and a school bus collided in North Philadelphia Friday morning.
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  • Armed robbery of Olney food market
  • Police are looking for the gunmen who stormed a food market in Olney on Thursday, threatening workers at gunpoint.
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  • A 59-year-old man pinned underneath a SEPTA bus in Philadelphia on Friday morning has died.
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  • The Action Cam was on the scene of a crash involving a car and a school bus in North Philadelphia on Friday.
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  • Police say a 29-year-old man was shot in the neck in the city's Logan section early Friday morning.
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  • Accusations of harassment have Philadelphia police brass looking very closely at a YouTube video.
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  • Here are some great ideas to get out and have some fun in the Philadelphia region!
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  • Action News Online
  • A Pennsylvania judge said Thursday that she will rule later on whether to dismiss an assisted suicide charge against a nurse accused of handing her 93-year-old terminally ill father a bottle of morphine.
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  • Man tries to snatch boy, girl from playground
  • Police are searching for a man who tried to abduct two children from a playground in the Oxford Circle section of Philadelphia.
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  • Reward offered in search for Rite Aid robbery suspect
  • Philadelphia police have released surveillance video of two men who robbed a Rite Aid on Rising Sun Avenue over the weekend.
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