Man Fatally Shot Outside Original Hot Dog Shop In Oakland

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A Brookline man was shot and killed early this morning outside a popular Oakland hot dog shop.

Zachary Sheridan, 24, was shot in the throat at Forbes Avenue and South Bouquet Street after an argument with someone inside the Original Hot Dog Shop spilled outside, according to Pittsburgh police Sgt. James Vogel of the Squirrel Hill station.

Homicide detectives are investigating.

“We’re looking for a couple of people,” Detective Harold Bolin said this morning.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/art-architecture/man-fatally-shot-outside-original-hot-dog-shop-in-oakland-697942/#ixzz2avLCQAjC

Harrisburg Parking Deal Would Preserve Local Control Through CREDC And Increase City Revenue, Sources Say

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Control of Harrisburg‘s parking garages will remain local, and annual revenues into the city’s coffers will increase millions over current figures under the terms of the long-term lease of parking assets being negotiated by the city’s state-appointed receiver, according to multiple sources close to the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to speak on the record.

Leasing the assets directly to an outside for-profit operation, as had originally been planned, raised concerns within the city that parking rates could increase out-of-control to boost profits while the assets themselves could languish and degrade in the hands of a company with no long-term interest in the welfare of the city.

What’s more, according to multiple sources, the on-going financial plight of Harrisburg and fluctuations in the bond market made private bond financing less attractive to the companies originally interested in such a deal.

Although the basic structure of the parking deal has been previously reported, new details are emerging.

Read more:  http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/08/harrisburg_parking_deal_would.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Feds: Hughestown Cop Sold Drugs On Duty

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When federal agents confronted Hughestown police officer Robert F. Evans Jr. on Thursday about dealing powerful painkillers while on duty and in full uniform, he told them he wanted to cooperate.

Evans admitted obtaining oxycodone pills from a friend and through a prescription, selling the pills over the past year, and driving a client to Wilkes-Barre in a Hughestown police cruiser so the client could buy illegal drugs, according to an affidavit released Friday by the FBI after agents charged the officer.

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“I dealt pills with a gun on my hip,” Evans told investigators, the affidavit said.

Read more:   http://citizensvoice.com/news/feds-hughestown-cop-sold-drugs-on-duty-1.1530751

Woman, 30, Plunges To Death In Philly

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Somehow, the cellphone slipped out of her hand.

Ngoc Tran Vo, a 30-year-old beauty with a checkered past, was on a 12th-floor balcony of the Residences at Dockside in the wee small hours Friday, looking south on the Delaware River, when her phone tumbled to a patio eight floors below.

Vo, and the man whose apartment she was visiting, called security from the posh condominium and asked them to retrieve the device, said police Capt. Laurence Nodiff, of South Detectives.

“They said they could do it at a reasonable time, but it wasn’t even 4 a.m.,” he said.  “They couldn’t disrupt the sleep of anybody who was in the [fourth floor] apartment.”

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Woman_30_plunges_to_death.html#752BlWWjbeIMLqzs.99

Norristown Police Searching For Suspect In Corson Street Shooting

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NORRISTOWN, PA — Police are searching for an unknown person who fired multiple shots on the 300 block of Blackberry Alley Thursday night, injuring a young man.

At approximately 10:09 p.m. police were dispatched to the 600 block of Corson Street for a report of a shooting. While officers were on their way to the scene, dispatch told them seven to eight shots had been heard and a male victim was on the ground.

Police arrived on the 300 block of Blackberry Alley and found the victim lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the leg.

The victim identified himself to police and told them he was just walking by when he heard the gunshots and was hit in the leg with a bullet. He was taken to Paoli Hospital by Plymouth Ambulance to be treated for his wound.

Read more:  http://www.timesherald.com/article/20130802/NEWS01/130809920/norristown-police-searching-for-suspect-in-corson-street-shooting#full_story

Two Developers Set Sights On Fayette And Elm, Conshohocken

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CONSHOHOCKEN — The Montgomery County Redevelopment Authority (RDA) has released redacted copies of two proposals to redevelop the Verizon building and a vacant parcel at the intersection of Fayette and Elm streets, reuse the historic Washington Fire Co. building and provide additional parking for Fayette Street merchants and shoppers.

The Times Herald filed a Right to Know request July 26 for the two proposals from Brandywine Realty Trust (BRT) of Radnor, Delaware County, and Keystone Property Group (KPG) of Lower Merion after officials at the RDA refused to provide the proposals without allowing the two realty development companies to redact “confidential and proprietary information.”

Jerry Nugent III, the executive director of the RDA, said in a July 31 letter that the information was “commercial or financial information received by an agency which is privileged or confidential and the disclosure of which would cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person that submitted the information.”

The redacted version of the BRT proposal included an executive summary and six conceptual drawings illustrating the firm’s plans for replacing the Verizon building at 402 Fayette St., with a 24,000-square-foot building for borough workers and the police department.

Read more:  http://www.timesherald.com/article/20130802/NEWS01/130809921/two-developers-set-sights-on-fayette-and-elm-conshohocken-#full_story

Kenhorst Borough Council To Address Blighted Properties

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Officials are set to address blighted properties in Kenhorst after a unanimous vote authorizing Solicitor Jill Nagy to draft a supplemental ordinance to help recover money used maintaining derelict houses and bank-owned properties.

Borough Council President David Roche told council that the supplement would be more of a backbone to the municipal building code, and that a newly formed blight steering committee met Wednesday to figure out how to better attack problem areas.

The panel consists of Roche, Richard Fritz, Mayor Nick Hatzas, Borough Manager Jeri Diesinger, Nagy and two residents who have not yet been chosen.

Read more:  http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=498578