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An 18-year-old transgender woman has pleaded guilty to the brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl she allegedly had a sexual relationship with. Ash Cooper will spend at least 15 years in prison after she admitted to the shooting death of Morgan Connors in the trailer she shared with her father in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in November 2022. Police say the teen called a female friend on Instagram video after the murder and showed off Connors' body covered in blood and asked for help disposing of it. When she was arrested Cooper reportedly told cops the murder was an accident and that...

A Pennsylvania man who sought treatment for jaw pain, killed his chiropractor by fracturing his skull and hitting him in the jaw with a blunt object. Joseph O’Boyle, 23, blamed his chiropractor Dr. James Sowa, 64, for worsening his jaw pain, according to his family. Surveillance video from November 2020 shows O’Boyle arriving to Dr. Sowa’s office on the day of the murder and fleeing the scene one minute later. One week after the murder, law enforcement served O’Boyle a search warrant at his home and that’s when he lunged at a detective a repeatedly punched him in the head....

Customers hoping for a classic buffet dinner at a Golden Corral in Pennsylvania on Friday night were instead met with a massive brawl. A stunning video shows dozens of customers throwing punches, tables and chairs during the disturbance. According to KYW-TV, police said more than 40 people may have been involved in the fight that broke out in Bensalem. They cited an argument between customers as the reason for the brawl.

Slain Bensalem chiropractor planned to work at polls as GOP committeeman

An immigrant living illegally in the United States is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. The Bensalem Township Police Department said in a statement that 33-year-old Jorge Luis Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, sexually assaulted the girl over a dozen times. The investigation started earlier this week when the girl’s parents reported to police their daughter was being sexually assaulted by Ramirez. Police said the girl was initially approached by Ramirez while attending services at Redemption Episcopal Church at 1101 2nd Street Pike in Southampton. Ramirez has been charged with aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent assault...

The township also calls into question the propriety of a relationship between a member of the ISBR and a lead DOJ investigator. Attorneys for the township also confirm that a lawyer representing the mosque was in contact with DOJ investigators well before the planning board reached any decision regarding the ISBR’s application. “These communications, unknown by the Township at the time, suggest an inappropriate collusion with Plaintiffs rather than an unbiased review.” The town also accuses the Department of Justice of engaging in punitive behavior throughout the investigation, and not acting in good faith. . . . A similar lawsuit...

BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) -- An illegal immigrant from Honduras is under arrest in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl. Police say 33-year-old Jorge Luis Ramirez sexually assaulted the girl more than a dozen times, and they are asking any other alleged victims to come forward. Investigators say Ramirez met the girl at Redemption Episcopal Church on 2nd Street Pike in Southampton, New Jersey.

The Department of Justice has been swamped by the workload it has faced over the past several months. They have not had the time to deal with the illegal aliens that have not been processed. They could not look into the IRS and its treatment of conservative organizations. Neither did the DOJ have time to look into Lois Lerner. Amazingly, we find that it does have time to sue a small Pennsylvania township over a zoning issue. That’s right - the DOJ has filed suit against Bensalem Township over its zoning decisions. The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department is...

The U.S. Justice Department is suing a suburban Philadelphia town, alleging its denial of a permit for a mosque in 2014 constituted religious discrimination. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the suit was filed Thursday and seeks to have Bensalem give the Bensalem Masjid approval to build the mosque, provide training for township employees on religious land-use laws and pay unspecified damages. …

Was the recent Bensalem, PA gun buy-back legally funded? It was the first in the nation financed with federal drug forfeiture funds. In the video below Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo and Director of Public Safety Fred Harran of Bensalem, PA state that their two day gun buy-back of February 6 and 16 was the first in the nation financed with federal funds seized from drug dealers. They refer to the fact that the shared funds must be used for law enforcement purposes and that they are the first jurisdiction to get approval to use such funds for a gun buy-back. Mr....

A screenshot of guns collected at Bensalem Township's gun buyback events. Credit Bensalem Township The Bensalem Patch notes that only two of 586 firearms turned in at the two recent turn in events were identified as stolen. From the Bensalem Patch: Nearly 600 firearms, two of which were stolen, were collected at Bensalem Township's anonymous gun buyback events held in February, according to the police department. Sgt. Andrew Aninsman claims that the program was conducted without cost to the taxpayers: "Over the course of two days we received 586 firearms at no cost to taxpayers," Sgt. Andrew Aninsman said. Cash...

AMBER ALERT 08/31/06, BUCKS CO., BLK HISP F, 3 YOA, 39” 35 LBS, BLK HR, BRN EYES, PINK SHIRT PINK PANTS, NO SHOES, ABDUCTED APPROX. 0911 BLK MALE, 19 YOA, 6’5” 170 LBS., BRN EYES, BLK HAIR, NO SHIRT, BLUE JEANS, 1997 RED BUICK SDN, PA REG FXY9677 The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert for the Bensalem Police Department, Bucks County. Bensalem Police are searching for Jiane FITZPATRICK, a black hispanic female, age 3, 39” tall, 35 pounds, black hair with pink barrettes, brown eyes, wearing a pink shirt and pink long pants, no footwear....