Attorneys with one of the state’s largest public defense law firms formed a group text chat that they named “F*** da police” accompanied by a pig emoji, court filings show. A screenshot of the text string was disclosed earlier this year in discrimination lawsuits filed against Washington County by two former public defenders, both women of color. The revelation about the crudely named group text underscores the long-simmering tensions between the criminal defense bar and law enforcement and even the bench in Washington County. Alyne Sanchez and Chloé Clay, who...

The guy and the Netflix series were the hit of the pandemic, and if you are wondering why you haven’t heard much from him since then …well, it’s because he has been in prison. Turns out the whole feud with Carole Baskin didn’t turn out well for him, and in 2019 he was found guilty on two counts of trying to hire a hitman to kill her. He is serving a 21-year sentence at the Federal Meical Center in Forth Worth, Texas. Anyway, Exotic has made his way back into...

Jalen Hurts and Bryonna "Bry" Burrows are married! The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback — who is magazine's May/June 2025 cover story — revealed to the outlet that he and Burrows tied the knot this spring. While doing an interview for the story, he told the magazine that by the time the feature was published, "You can call her my wife." According to Men's Health , the 26-year-old athlete came to the interview with a crumbled-up pink Post-It note in his pocket with a sweet message from his now-wife that read: "You...

Orchestra BioMed Holdings shares rallied premarket after the maker of medical devices said a blood-pressure mechanism received breakthrough status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, allowing for a speedier review. The New Hope, Pa., company said Tuesday it received the FDA's Breakthrough Device Designation for an atrioventricular interval modulation therapy.

A 77-year-old Uber driver was shot dead in an attack while picking up a passenger outside of a Philadelphia hookah lounge. On Wednesday, April 15, shortly before 2 a.m., a man identified as Olatunji W. Bolaji from Norristown, Pennsylvania, stopped at Byblos Hookah Bar for his next Uber rider, according to CBS News . As the 22-year-old passenger, who has not been identified by name, entered the vehicle, two men got out of a car behind Bolaji, Philadelphia Chief Inspector Scott Small told the outlet. They proceeded to shoot into...

Mack Trucks will lay off between 250 and 350 workers at its Lehigh Valley Operations center outside Allentown over the next three months, due to economic uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs, a company spokesperson said Thursday. “Heavy-duty truck orders continue to be negatively affected by market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs,” spokesperson Kimberly Pupillo said. “Today we informed our employees that this unfortunately means we’ll have to lay off 250-350 people at LVO over the next 90 days,” Pupillo said. “We...