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Crime in KensingtonWatch: Hoagie Bandits Use Sandwich As Bait For Robbery
Philadelphia Police are looking for three people who robbed a Kensington deli on June 29th, at 8:30 in the morning. The suspects (listed at the bottom of the article) used a…
Joshua Albert | 07/07/2015 -
Features in KensingtonPhotos: The New Five Sisters Patio at Front and Norris Is The Bees Knees, Hookah Lounge Coming Soon
You may have read our story a while ago about Five Sisters, the Middle Eastern ice cream shop that opened under the El at Front and Norris Streets earlier this…
Joshua Albert | 07/06/2015 -
Crime in KensingtonKensington Man Found Dead In Pool Of His Own Blood During Violent Holiday Weekend
Reggie Ellis, a 44 year-old Kensington resident, was shot multiple times at the 2000 block of East Stella Street early on Sunday morning, according to Philadelphia Police. Police officials say the…
Joshua Albert | 07/06/2015 -
Community in KensingtonPHOTOS: Neighbors Join to Clean Up & Rock Out In East Kensington and Olde Richmond
The warm and sunny evening of Monday, July 29th found a group of about 40 locals getting together for a good cause — beautifying the neighborhood, with the perks of…
Lindsey Miller | 07/03/2015 -
Features in KensingtonWATCH: Man Walks Off SEPTA Platform Onto Tracks At Somerset Station
On Wednesday evening bystanders and SEPTA police rescued a man who walked off the El platform and onto the subway tracks below. The incident, which was caught on SEPTA camera…
Joshua Albert | 07/03/2015 -
News in KensingtonSquare Framed Spectacle Wearing Suspect Looking For Girlfriend Rapes 51 Year-old Woman, Leaves Her Naked In Street
Monday night in Kensington, a man allegedly walked up to a 51-year-old woman and told her he was "looking for his girlfriend." After the man realized the woman wasn't his…
Joshua Albert | 07/02/2015 -
News in KensingtonFirefighter Hurt in Kensington House Fire
A firefighter was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries after responding to a call to take down a blaze on the 2900-block of Rorer Street early Tuesday morning. No…
K. Andrew Deffley | 07/01/2015 -
Features in Kensington(Watch) Kids Punching Kids: Local Gym Trains the Next Round of Philly Boxers
It’s easy to write off Kensington as a place you want to avoid; the police are highly visible in this area but seem apathetic toward blatant acts of deviance and…
Ptah Gabrie | 07/01/2015 -
Crime in KensingtonSuspect Caught in May Shooting of Kensington Resident
Kensington resident Steven Justiniano was gunned down on the evening of May 15 and succumbed to his chest wound about 30 minutes after SEPTA police found him lying face-down in…
K. Andrew Deffley | 06/28/2015 -
Crime in KensingtonFamily Offers $5,000 Reward for Suspects in Shooting of Young Kensington Teen
Diamond Santiago, 13, was just hanging out on the porch of her Kensington home on May 29, when she was critically wounded by a stray bullet in a random neighborhood…
K. Andrew Deffley | 06/28/2015 -
Crime in KensingtonVideo Shows SEPTA Cop Choking Man With Child In Hands For Evading Fare, Chief Acknowledges This Is Not Cool
SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel gave a 3:30PM press conference regarding a video that emerged this morning of SEPTA officers pushing a man who was holding his young daughter off…
Spirit Staff | 06/26/2015 -
Crime in KensingtonUPDATE 2:24 P.M. : Watch Video of SEPTA Police Arrest Man With Child In Hands For Kid (Maybe) Not Paying Fare (Not Illegal)
A video shot yesterday afternoon by G. Ahmad Najam—originally posted to Facebook before being made available to The Spirit—allegedly shows SEPTA police arresting a man at the Huntington station of the…
Joshua Albert | 06/26/2015