Copyright 2009 http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:14 -0500 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:14 -0500 NBC Local Integrated Media http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Masked_Men_Murder_Woman__Beat_Man_Philadelphia.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:44:34 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHImaskedmenhomeinvasion_640x480.jpg
At least three masked men busted into a Kingsessing home Tuesday morning, killing the woman who lived there and pistol-whipping a man.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Coast-Guard-Searching-for-Missing-Fisherman-69819182.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:08:09 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/Avalon+Beach+NorEaster+Kevin+Scarpa.jpg
The Coast Guard has called off a search for three missing fishermen after their boat sank off the Jersey Coast Wednesday.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/_Again_You_Got_it_Wrong__Philadelphia.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:48:34 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHIbobbradyonseptastrikeending_640x480.jpg
Talks never broke down said Congressman Bob Brady.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/_Willie_Brown_Did_His_Job__Philadelphia.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:28:32 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHIrendellonwilliebrown_640x480.jpg
Governor Ed Rendell gives Union president Willie Brown a big pat on the back. (Watch Brown's body language when Mayor Michael Nutter takes the podium.)

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/_The_Strike_is_Over__Philadelphia.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:24:35 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHIrendellonstrikeending_640x480.jpg
Governor Ed Rendell outlines how the settlement was reached.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/SEPTA-Strike-Settled-69537942.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:32:17 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHI+lead+image+strike+over+sign.jpeg
Buses, trains and trolleys are back in service for the morning commute.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Man-Killed-by-Train-69279647.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:57:15 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/septa11.jpg
Worker was hit by a regional rail while inspecting tracks.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/HighRise_Evacuated_in_A_C__Philadelphia.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:02:33 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHIhigerisefireinacvideo_640x480.jpg
Evacuations were underway Wednesday morning at the Inlet Towers in Atlantic City, N.J. as a fire on one of the upper floors went to three alarms.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/SEPTA_Riders_Walking_Philadelphia.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:08:35 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHIcommuterswalkingfromtrainyard_640x480.jpg
Commuters on the R5 train that caught fire Wednesday morning walked from the train yard to await other transportation. The back car on their train caught fire just after 7 a.m.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Two-Kids-Hurt-in-Hit-and-Run-68946797.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:54:18 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/Twins+Hit+and+Run+-+Sisters+Side+by+Side.jpg
Two children were rushed to the hospital after they were hit by a car late Tuesday afternoon.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/SEPTA-Union-Goes-on-Strike-68822397.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:58:02 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/PHI+septa+strike+sign.jpg
NOT running: city buses, trolleys, Broad St. Subway and the EL. Regional rails and Paratransit ARE running.

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A woman was rescued by ladder from the third floor of a home after it began to collapse Monday morning. She was the only person inside the home in the 3900 block of Fairmount Avenue when it started crumbling.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/television/The-Boy-Who-Cried-Falcon-64454932.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:22:15 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/101509+falconheene.jpg
Little Falcon Heene was a very naughty boy. What did we all learn from his little dalliance with homemade aviation?

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/64045422.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:26:41 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/Construction_lift_accident_640x480.jpg
A Center City construction accident left one man dead and other people injured.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Crane-Collapses-in-Center-City-64012417.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:48:35 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/Center+City+Construction+Lift+Collapse+-+Ground.jpg
A man fell 125 feet to his death as his construction lift fell, slamming into a building and then the street.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/business/Marcus-Schrenker-Faked-Own-Death-Parachuted-Plane-Northwest-Indiana-Times-Exclusive-Jail-Interview-Bi-Polar-63963217.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:03:36 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/011409-Marcus-Schrenker-p1.jpg
The Indiana man who parachuted out of a plane to fake his own death speaks from his jail cell.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/FBI-63969677.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:18:49 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/101109FBI01.jpg
A man accused of helping to hijack a Pan Am flight out of John F. Kennedy Airport more than 40 years ago was captured and brought to New York Sunday for trial.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/NATLUN-Plane-Crashes-in-Haiti-Killing-11-Peacekeepers-63899282.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:38:05 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*80/AB17360.jpg
Eleven United Nations peacekeepers were killed Friday when their surveillance plane crashed into a mountain in Haiti, the world body said.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Phillies-World-Series-Rings-Stolen-From-CBP-63848042.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:56:13 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/Phillies+world+series+rings+stolen.jpg
A man who was ejected from the Phillies NLDS Game 2 allegedly grabbed a few souvenirs before he left

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One photo changed the Bennethum family's world forever.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Pakistan-Suicide-Car-Bomb-63840692.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:26:30 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/pakistan+blast-640.jpg
A suicide car bomber struck near a popular market in the northwest Pakistan city of Preshwar on Friday, killing at least 49 people and wounding 100.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Obama-Wins-Nobel-Peace-Prize-63836192.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:11:49 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/obamawinsA1.jpg
In a development that left him as stunned as his fans and critics, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for pledging to rid the world of nuclear weapons and his efforts to boost international diplomacy.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/North-Catholic-Cardinal-Dougherty-to-Close-63799472.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:58:47 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/Cardinal+Dougherty+School+Front+Wide.jpg
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is closing Northeast Catholic High School for Boys and Cardinal Dougherty High School because there aren't enough students enrolled to support the schools.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Federal-Grand-Jury-Indicts-Dallas-Bomb-Plot-Suspect-63763792.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:13:19 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/dallasbombing.jpg
A Jordanian teenager accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper was indicted Thursday.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Im-That-Babys-Daddy-Priest-63686022.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:40:47 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*66/PHI+fr+newman+horiz+robe.jpg
Not since Alberto Cutie has the Catholic Church been so fun to attend

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Large-Blast--Outside-Indian-Embassy--63737892.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:36:23 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/afghanistan+attack-640.jpg
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a deadly car bombing near the heavily fortified Indian embassy in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital city early Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 87.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Pebble-Beach-Art-Case-Reeks-Of-Corruption-63695767.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:37:13 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/pebblebeach.jpg
A day after being called suspects, the Pebble Beach owners of a stolen art collection that could be worth as much as $80 million said the sheriff's office "reeks of corruption."

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Pebble-Art-Heist-Investigators-No-Proof-63617022.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:58:47 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/pebbleart31.jpg
"The Thomas Crown Affair" is quickly turning into "The Vanishing," as an art heist takes a new turn.

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/health/NATl-Swine-Flu-Vaccine-Campaign-Begins--63654737.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:54:57 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/swine+flu+kid-640.jpg
The swine flu vaccine is ready – are you?

]]> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/NATL-3-More-Americans-Win-Nobels-63586512.html Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:19:38 -0500 http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/120*90/nobel+physics-640.jpg
Three American scientists have won Nobel Prizes in physics for breakthroughs that helped connect the world through fiber optic networks and for creating the technology that makes digital photography possible.

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il says he’s prepared to return to six-party nuke disarmament talks if his country makes progress in negotiations with the U.S.

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