The KYW Newsradio All-Local on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 (evening edition):

• Chaos in a Montgomery County courtroom (today). Sheriffs deputies had to clear a courtroom after a family member tried to attack a man who was pleading guilty to the fatal overdose of a six-year-old boy.

• Philadelphia City Council and the police department have been working to improve the city's 9-1-1 dispatch center following a tragic incident last summer when a dispatcher sent police to a wrong address. 

• Joyce Abbott, the muse behind Quinta Brunson's hit show "Abbott Elementary", will give a key note at this year’s PA Conference on Women.

• Philly has more mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus than any other county in Pennsylvania, according to data from state officials.

• The Philadelphia police department is getting ready for back to school. Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel says officers are paying special attention to the routes where students from rival schools may converge.