
Philadelphia hits grim record of 500 homicides as leaders stress the victims are more than numbers
CNN
It's daytime, and the woman screams, "Call 911! Call 911!" as pedestrians walk down a sidewalk near a South Philadelphia intersection packed with apartments and businesses. Seconds later, she is shot dead, marking the most dubious of milestones.
The city witnessed its 500th homicide of 2021 on Wednesday, matching a record set in 1990, according to police data. It's an average of about one homicide every 16 hours this year.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors are slamming the Justice Department’s partial release of the Epstein files that began last Friday, contending that contrary to what is mandated by law, the department’s disclosures so far have been incomplete and improperly redacted — and challenging for the survivors to navigate as they search for information about their own cases.

The Providence mayor wants the Reddit tipster to get a $50,000 FBI reward. It might not be so simple
His detailed tip helped lead investigators to the gunman behind the deadly Brown University shooting – but whether the tipster known only as “John” will ever receive the $50,000 reward offered by the FBI is still an open question.











