Delaware County District Attorney DelcoDA says it could take a long time to sort through the ruins the house in East Lansdowne, PA for clues to what happened Wednesday afternoon.

'I can’t even begin to tell you an estimate.' nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/…

This was a really good, heartbreaking read

The Delaware River is at moderate flood stage in Philly after a week of heavy rains. It’s almost high tide and the waters are lapping at the edge of Graffiti Pier, an abandoned coal terminal popular with street artists and adventure seekers. Reporting for The New York Times

'I’ve visited the Center City Macy’s many times. To get there, I’ve had to navigate the gauntlet of misery that too often characterizes Philadelphia’s downtown streets.'

'Gauntlet of misery' is an apt description of what it's like to walk around Center City right now.

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A better headline would have been, Recent Events Imply Escapes Becoming More Common. Yes, there have only been 14 escapes in the past 8 years--but there have already been 6 this year. Spotlight PA mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbo…

The backstory of the Little Rascals question

I don't know what gets me more, the question or the matter-of-fact response lol

Search efforts for escapee Danelo Cavalcante continues this morning. There were two confirmed sightings of Cavalcante within the search area yesterday, September 8th. The search area now runs from Conservatory Rd. to State Route 52 and Street Rd. to Longwood Rd.

Day 9 dispatch: Pennsylvania State Police “optimistic” that the search will wear down Mr. Cavalcante and that authorities would capture him when he inevitably made a mistake. nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/…

Breaking News: A Philadelphia police officer was charged with murder after he fatally shot a 27-year-old man who was sitting in a parked car at near point-blank range. nyti.ms/3PvboUB

I mean, I know this is a brilliant PR move, but

In a country full of jails and prisons, staffing issues are the central challenge facing corrections facilities, experts say, and prison officials have cited them as a primary factor in some escapes. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/09/07/us/…

Cavalcante updates Sept. 7:

-latest reported sighting today near Longwood Gardens
-search perimeter unchanged since yesterday: Rte 926 to the North, Creek Rd to the east, Hillendale Rd to the south, Rte 52 to the west
-police have strategy to prevent escape via Brandywine Creek

A plethora of local, regional, national media outlets are here

PA state police and Chester County DA to give an update on the Cavalcante manhunt at 3pm

Video shows Danelo Cavalcante wedging himself between two exterior walls of Chester County Prison to climb to the roof. The acting warden said he pushed through razor wire to get there. A guard in a watchtower somehow missed his eventual escape from the prison grounds.

For nearly a week since a convicted murderer slipped away from the Chester County Prison, the people in the area, a quiet stretch of farmland and wooded thickets about an hour’s drive outside Philadelphia, have had to live with a relentless unease.

nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/…