Madeleine Wright

The @USMarshalsHQ has arrested the driver they believe got out of his car, punched a school crossing guard in the face and took off in Darby on Monday. @USMS_Philly says Rashiem Russell was taken into custody at a family member’s house in Darlington, South Carolina this morning.

Cops are searching for the driver who got out of his car and punched a school crossing guard in the face after dismissal yesterday afternoon. @DarbyBoroPolice say the driver was angry he had to wait for the guard to help the kids cross the street. The victim is expected to be OK.

Schools in Media, Phoenixville and Lower Merion have canceled after school activities in response to tonight’s storm. One of the biggest concerns is strong, damaging winds that could knock down trees onto power lines and cause outages. @PECOconnect says extra crews are on hand.

Irish pride was on full display for the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Philadelphia. Thousands of people lined Market Street to celebrate.

The new owners of Springfield Hospital in Delaware County held their first walkthrough today for a group of physicians who traveled from the Los Angeles area. Their goal is to reopen the hospital, which the now bankrupt former owner, Prospect Medical Holdings, shut down in 2022.

Philadelphians are kicking off 100 days to the FIFA World Cup. Six matches will be hosted at @LFFStadium. Organizers of today’s pep rally in Center City said their goal is to make visitors feel at home in Philadelphia.

Drivers in King of Prussia are dealing with a big headache. The southbound lanes of U.S. 202 between Prince Frederick Blvd. and Henderson Rd. are shut down starting today through the fall. @PennDOTNews is doing sinkhole remediation. This area has been a trouble spot for years.

The blizzard of 2026 dumped more than a foot of snow in Atlantic City. It’s still cold and windy, but road conditions are improving now that the snow has stopped falling. This was the Atlantic City Expressway at 9:30 AM today and this is what it looked like at 4:30 PM.

A nor’easter dumped more than a foot of snow on Atlantic City. Crews have been working round the clock to keep roads passable. The city’s emergency operations director says the wind has been a big challenge because it pushes the snow right back onto roads that were just plowed.

Conditions are deteriorating at the Jersey Shore. The Atlantic City Expressway was down to blacktop at 4 PM on Sunday, but now it is covered with snow. Plow drivers are working through the nor’easter to keep roads passable.

The American flag is barely hanging on by a thread outside this hotel in Atlantic City. A nor’easter is pummeling the Jersey shore with heavy snow and strong winds. The storm has intensified through the night. All 21 counties in the Garden State are under a state of emergency.

The Atlantic City boardwalk is empty as the entire state of New Jersey is under a blizzard warning. A few pedestrians were out for a walk, and a snow plow just passed through. The city is urging people to move their cars off snow emergency routes like Martin Luther King Blvd.

Snow is coming down hard and fast on the Atlantic City Expressway in Sicklerville. New Jersey Gov. @MikieSherrill said snow removal crews are working around the clock. She said the state has 101,000 tons of salt for the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway alone.

The @PhiladelphiaGov is declaring a snow emergency that goes into effect tomorrow at 4 PM. The city will deploy 1,000 city employees and 800 pieces of equipment, including pickup trucks, front end loaders, skid steers and sanitation trucks, to clear the roads.

Philadelphians are stocking up on supplies ahead of tomorrow’s major winter storm. A manager at Fairmount Hardware in Fairmount Avenue said his store has sold 300 shovels today alone. Ice scrapers and sleds are in short supply, but there is plenty of magnesium ice.

Students at the Harris School, a K-8 school in Collingdale, are making big strides in reading with the help of the AI powered literacy program Amira. Julie Adams’ second graders are now averaging 91 words per minute, up from 59 at the start of the school year.

Sunday’s storm dumped 9 inches of snow on Upper Chichester, Delaware County, according to the @NWS. At Ogden Supply on Naamans Creek Road, ice scrapers and snow shovels are sold out. Rock salt is available, but is being limited to two 50 lb.-bags per customer.

Philadelphia leaders unveiled an ambitious plan to transform Avenue of the Arts into a world famous landmark comparable to Paris’ Champs-Élysées and Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Officials said the project will boost the regional economy with a $22.6B return on a $150M investment.

Yeadon, Delaware County police describe this twin home in Ephrata, Lancaster County as a house of horrors. Police say the resident, Jonathan Gerlach, hoarded more than 100 human skulls, bones, mummified feet and hands and 2 decomposing torsos in his basement.

A central Pennsylvania man has been arrested and accused of stealing bones from Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon. The Delaware County District Attorney has charged Jonathan Gerlach from Ephrata with Burglary, Abuse of Corpse and Desecration and theft or sale of venerated objects.