Stanley Crawford, 67, whose son's 2018 murder remains unsolved, has helped to launch a new grassroots group to put cold-case murders back on the front burner, the Family of Unsolved Murders Project.
In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the death toll of the coronavirus continues to rise. Pennsylvania lawmakers voted to move the primary election to June, and are looking into the "soft reopening" of liquor stores.
Derrick Drayton, 63, of the 2700 block of North Hemberger Street in North Philadelphia, was killed Wednesday at 11:09 p.m. when he was struck by a Kia Optima in the 2300 block of West Hunting Park Avenue in Nicetown, police said.
“It’s a tricky issue because the law has not caught up with" the growing regard of pets as being akin to family members, says one family law attorney. “It’s almost barbaric to think of pets as nothing more than property."
Since 2018, Philly cops have recovered 118 ghost guns from crime scenes. Critics say the guns pose a danger to the public because they are sold in kits and assembled at home, lacking serial numbers, and cannot be traced to manufacturers.
