With just a few days before the start of the 2024 NFL Draft, we decided to sneak in one more fan-sourced mock draft. With the help of the PFF mock draft simulator, we went through all eight of the Eagles picks and I asked Eagles fans on Twitter/X to make the picks out of four options provided by me. Here are the results: Round 1-22: Cooper DeJean, CB, Iowa Cooper DeJean, CB, Iowa: 52.6% Kool-Aid McKinstry, CB, Alabama: 30.1% Amarius Mims, OT, Georgia: 14.8% Adonai Mitchell, WR, Texas: 2.5% There’s no doubt that DeJean has become the most popular option for the Eagles if they stay at 22. The 21 ..read more

Police in Philadelphia have announced the arrest of a woman sought after five people were struck by a Nissan Sentra in a grocery store parking lot in the Oxford Circle section of Northeast Philadelphia on Monday. According to police, Omobolanle Paige, 45-year-old, from Northeast Philly, was arrested after she, allegedly, driver her 2015 Nissan Sentra into five people in the parking lot of a grocery store along the 6300 block of Oxford Avenue at about 1:48 p.m. on Monday afternoon. Officials said that four women who were struck — aged 57, 45, 76 and 29 — all suffered bruises and scratches in th ..read more

A man died after being struck by a car in Philadelphia’s University city neighborhood Wednesday morning. Philadelphia police said the striking driver initially fled the scene before surrendering to police, police said. An eastbound Buick Enclave struck the man as he crossed Spruce Street at a crosswalk near 36th Street — that’s right by the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn campus — around 5:30 a.m., police investigators said. The man was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died just after 6 a.m., police said. No word yet on the person’s identity. As polic ..read more

A group of people on dirt bikes hunted down a teenager believed to be using his scooter to make deliveries in Philadelphia early Wednesday morning. Police arrived to South 10th and Federal streets just before 12:30 a.m. to find a 17-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg next to his crashed scooter, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said. Officers rushed the boy to a hospital where he was being treated in stable condition. Léelo en español aquí. The victim doesn’t speak English, but witnesses helped investigators sort out what happened, Small said. The incident b ..read more

The Supreme Court will consider Wednesday when doctors can provide abortions during medical emergencies in states with bans enacted after the high court’s sweeping decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The case comes from Idaho, which is one of 14 states that now ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy with limited exceptions. It marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered a state ban since Roe was reversed. The Biden administration argues that even in states where abortion is banned, federal health care law says hospitals must be allowed to terminate pregnancies in rare emergencies wher ..read more

Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.  The organization’s report — its 25th annual analysis of the “State of the Air” in the country — found that between 2020 and 2022, 131 million people were living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution. The figure increased by nearly 12 million since the last survey a year ago.  The report also found that people in the Unite ..read more

Today’s date is 4-24-24. Today’s date in reverse is 4-24-24. Yes, you are currently in the midst of a palindrome week! A palindrome is a word, verse, sentence or number that reads the same backward or forward. So, words like “mom” and “kayak” and “noon” all qualify. As for numerical patterns, just take a look at this month’s calendar. This April features 11 palindrome dates, including a stretch of 10 straight from April 20 through April 29. On these dates, there is a somewhat rare calendrical symmetry. Are palindrome dates rare? The number of palindrome dates varies from year to year and centu ..read more

The city of Philadelphia is working on getting abandoned cars removed from neighborhood streets with a new initiative. Residents in the Northeast section of the city say that they’re looking forward to the clean up event in their neighborhood on Wednesday. Police with the Neighborhood Service Unit began the sweep on Monday after the department got over 800 calls from residents reporting cars that were abandoned in their neighborhoods. Officials say that abandoned cars create quality of life challenges as they lower property values and attract crime as well as pose environmental hazards by poss ..read more

One NJ man takes the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” seriously and for a good cause.  Eduardo Jimenez starts his days off with a three-and-a-half to four-mile walk down the Brigantine beach every morning just 40 minutes before the sun fully rises.  This all began during the pandemic when he and his wife moved to Brigantine from Monmouth County. During COVID, the gym was not an option for Eduardo, so he opted for the long, therapeutic walks on the beach and the habit stuck with him.  In the early days of starting his daily walks, the NJ resident noticed litter ..read more

Police in Philadelphia are investigating after a dog attacked another dog and killed it last week in the West Oak Lane section of the city, officials said. Last Wednesday, an officer responded to a call about the dog attack just after 8 a.m. on the 2100 block of Eastburn Avenue, police said. Once on the scene, the officer saw that a pit bull was attacking a Pomeranian on the sidewalk, according to officials. The owner of the pit bull had tried to stop the attack, but was not successful. The officer used her taser twice to try and stop the attack, but it didn’t work, officials said. She then fi ..read more