Jury Hears From Victims, Excavator Operator In Salvation Army Building Collapse Trial
The morning began with the tear-jerking tale of a survivor who was trapped in the rubble for 14 hours before being rescued.
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The morning began with the tear-jerking tale of a survivor who was trapped in the rubble for 14 hours before being rescued.
The Red Cross is assisting two families after their home partially collapsed Wednesday night.
Six people died and 13 were injured when an adjoining building collapsed on a Salvation Army thrift store.
Campbell's lawyer insists that his client is being made a scapegoat in the 2013 collapse that also buried 13 survivors in rubble.
Six people died in June 2013 when a brick wall being demolished fell onto the roof of a Salvation Army thrift store.
Sources tell CBS 3 Eyewitness News a guilty plea may come as early as Tuesday.
Authorities say the collapse happened on the 300 block of E. Allen Street around 6:09 p.m. Tuesday.
Authorities say the collapse happened just before 11 a.m. Tuesday.
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It happened shortly before 11:30 p.m. along the 400 block of Line Street.
Eight people were displaced following a partial collapse of a two-family home Wednesday night in the Olney section of Philadelphia.
A 10-year-old was injured when a wall came tumbling down in North Philadelphia Sunday afternoon.
The roof collapsed on the building, located at 4800 Woodland Avenue in Kingsessing, around 7 p.m.
A seventh death is being linked to a 2013 building collapse in Philadelphia that killed shoppers and workers inside a Salvation Army.
Authorities have identified the male victim of Monday night's house fire and building collapse in Wilmington, Delaware.
Investigators spent Tuesday sifting through rubble on Bird Street in Wilmington looking for the cause of a fire and building collapse that killed one person and send two others to the hospital.
The fire was reported shortly before 11 p.m. in the 400 block of Maryland Avenue.
It was one year ago today that a building under demolition collapsed on the Salvation Army thrift shop at 22nd and Market Streets, killing six and injuring 14.
Licenses and Inspections Commissioner Carlton Williams in a 39-page written response, included in the Controller's Report, refuted the findings raising "objections to the incomplete, inaccurate and misleading interpretations of Department data that underlie the Report's recommendations."
A partial building collapse has been reported in the Strawberry Mansion section of the city Tuesday morning.
The call came in around 1:20 p.m. for a building under demolition at 3rd and Market Streets that had "collapsed."
The incident was reported shortly after 9 p.m. Monday in the 2600 block of Myrtlewood Street.
Public records show property taxes on the house haven't been paid since 2008. The property had been cited six times since 2007 by the city Department of Licenses & Inspections.
Eyewitness News has new details on a building collapse that injured two people in North Philadelphia.
A Philadelphia Grand Jury continues to investigate the deadly collapse of the Center City Salvation Army store in June.
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Police say a man pointed a gun at a crowd and then fled from police, and an officer shot him during a foot pursuit.
A massive fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has forced nearby residents to evacuate their homes Wednesday night.
Thursday in the Philadelphia region is going to be very similar to Wednesday, with just a few more clouds.
Curaçao, the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup, will play against the Ivory Coast in Philadelphia on Thursday.
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