The actor has been honoured by the birthplace of Rocky Sylvester Stallone has been given the keys to Philadelphia on the 47th anniversary of Rocky. Arguably his most famous role, Stallone played Rocky Balboa in the 1976 film, which is set in Philadelphia. Stallone went on to reprise the role in five sequels and the […]

2 years ago

He’s owned the animal since 2015 A man in the US was denied entry to a baseball game after he tried to bring his emotional support alligator in with him. Joie Henney tried take his reptile friend into a Philadelphia Phillies game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday, but he was denied entry to the […]

2 years ago

The chain was accused of wrongful termination and of unfairly punishing white employees Starbucks has been ordered to pay a white ex-employee $25.6m (£20.2m) in a racial discrimination case that involved two black men being removed from a franchise. Shannon Phillips, a former manager, was fired after Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were arrested at […]

3 years ago

He was killed while taking part in a funeral procession A 62-year-old man who wrongly spent more than third of his life on death row was shot dead less than two years after being released from prison. In February 2021, Christopher Williams walked free from prison holding a file containing the two signed warrants for his […]

3 years ago

The boy was found discarded on a road in a bassinet box in February 1957 Investigators have finally worked out who the boy at the centre of one of America’s most infamous unidentified person cases is, some 65 years after ‘The Boy in the Box’ case came to light. A child was found murdered, stuffed […]

3 years ago

A hero is born The four-minute mile. Swimming the Atlantic. Circumnavigating the globe. All epic feats of human endurance and perseverance. To that list we can now add eating 40 entire rotisserie chickens in 40 days, which is what one Philadelphia man achieved on Sunday. Alexander Tominsky has become an internet hero after completing the […]

3 years ago