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(03/20/07 9:00am)
There are still no new leads in the arson that gutted a house at 210 S. 41st St. in Jan., but the investigation of the fire will remain active for six months, Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker said.
(03/19/07 9:00am)
A 46-year-old female attempted to commit suicide Friday morning at the SEPTA subway station at 40th and Market streets, Philadelphia Police Department officials said.
(03/15/07 9:00am)
Total crime in the Penn patrol zone was 4 percent higher in February as compared with that month last year, Division of Public Safety officials said.
(03/14/07 9:00am)
A male complainant unaffiliated with the University was robbed at gunpoint near 41st and Chestnut streets Friday, Philadelphia and Penn Police officials said.
The complainant, 28, reported that, as he waited for his car to dry at the High Tech Car Wash at 4131 Chestnut St. at about 5:20 p.m., a male entered the vehicle.
The complainant reported that, when he approached the vehicle, the male displayed a handgun and fled east on Chestnut Street in the vehicle.
Penn Police officers arrested Saleem Lucas, 20, of the 6100 block of Osage Avenue, in connection with the incident after he was identified walking in the area of Convention Avenue and South Street.
He faces charges of robbery with intent to inflict serious bodily injury, robbery of a motor vehicle and other related offenses.
Philadelphia Police Sgt. Charles Layton said Lucas has not been connected to any other crimes.
The complainant's vehicle was later recovered in a University parking lot.
The incident is the fourth robbery in Penn's patrol zone since Feb. 10.
(03/14/07 9:00am)
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(03/13/07 9:00am)
The former second-year Law student who faces charges of attempted murder has withdrawn from the Law School, Penn Law Dean for Student Affairs Gary Clinton said yesterday.
(03/01/07 10:00am)
When it comes to arson, Penn would make Smokey the Bear proud.
(03/01/07 10:00am)
A female University faculty member was assaulted on the 3100 block of Walnut Street Monday afternoon, marking the eighth assault in nine days on or near Penn's campus.
(02/26/07 10:00am)
A male graduate student was the victim of an attempted robbery Thursday night on the 4000 block of Pine Street.
(02/22/07 10:00am)
The investigation of the arson of the house at 210 S. 41st St. is still ongoing, and, if history is any indication, it will likely fail to reach a satisfying conclusion.
(02/19/07 10:00am)
When Marie Antoinette allegedly said "let them eat cake" as a response to peasants rioting for bread, newly appointed PIK professor Adrian Raine thinks the French queen might have been on to something.
(02/16/07 10:00am)
The fire that gutted a house located at 210 S. 41st St. on Jan. 27 was deliberately set, Philadelphia Fire Department Executive Chief Daniel Williams said yesterday.
(02/14/07 10:00am)
Joseph Cho, the second-year Law student who allegedly tried to kill his downstairs neighbors, had enrolled at the New York University School of Law for several weeks in 2000 but left for reasons that the school would not disclose.
(02/09/07 10:00am)
When Penn Law professor David Rudovsky walked through a Philadelphia prison this summer, he was disgusted by what he saw - severe overcrowding, prisoners without access to showers and inadequate medical care, among other issues.
(02/08/07 10:00am)
Joseph Cho, a second-year law student who faces charges of attempted murder, has been deemed incompetent to stand trial, according to Cho's lawyer, Peter Bowers.
(02/07/07 10:00am)
Joseph Cho, the second-year Penn Law student who faces attempted murder charges, will find out today in a preliminary hearing if his case will move to trial.
(02/05/07 10:00am)
The second-year Penn Law student who allegedly fired nearly 15 shots into his neighbors' apartment door last Wednesday was arraigned and held without bail Friday on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, burglary and other related offenses, Lt. John Walker of the Philadelphia Police Department said.
(02/02/07 10:00am)
Two University employees, one male and one female, were robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday at about 5:55 p.m. on the 4100 block of Pine Street, Philadelphia and Penn Police officials said.
(02/01/07 10:00am)
The cause of a fire that destroyed a house just off campus Saturday has still not been determined, Philadelphia Fire Department Executive Chief Daniel Williams said yesterday.
(02/01/07 10:00am)
A second-year Penn Law student was arrested yesterday after he allegedly fired about 15 shots into the door of his downstairs neighbors' apartment at 4339 Pine St., Lt. John Walker of the Philadelphia Police said.