The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio

It’s been two years since Philadelphia declared that it had reduced veteran homelessness to “functional zero,” after housing some 1,300 veterans. But take a walk through the city and you can still find panhandlers holding signs claiming military service. So, is the program working? KYW's City Hall reporter Pat Loeb (@PatLoeb) joins Scroll Down this week to talk about Philadelphia's homeless vets. If you see a homeless veteran on the streets of Philadelphia, outreach wants to know. You can reach them at 215-232-1984.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studies in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick.

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If you've ever been to a swanky fundraiser or cocktail party in Philadelphia, you've probably run into HughE Dillon(@HughE_Dillon). He's been called Philly's paparazzi (yes, all by himself), and for ten years, HughE and his camera have been just about everywhere. And he's taken the tens of thousands of readers of his blog Philly Chit Chat along for the ride. This week on Scroll Down, why HughE decided Philadelphia needed a paparazzo, how he built a career out of it, and the deeply personal story behind his work as an advocate for suicide prevention.

 

Here are the links we talked about on the show:

The Suicide Prevention Lifeline number is 1-800-273-8255.

Find their website here: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.org/

And you can find HughE's blog here: http://www.phillychitchat.com/

 

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studies in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW.And you can follow Tom: @teerick.

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A scientist from the Philadelphia Zoo just came back from Ecuador, where he spent three weeks looking for extinct frogs. And he found them! Also, why frogs can tell us if New Jersey is about to die from thirst. John McDevitt (@jm1060) is back on Scroll Down this week. Ribbit.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

It was a chilly October night in 2004. Jason Richardson and his friend Anthony went to a bar in Upper Darby to unwind after a long week. 22-year-old Jason would never return home. Scroll Down is proud to present the first episode of Gone Cold -- a brand new podcast from KYW Newsradio, made by Tom Rickert (@teerick) and Kristen Johanson (@KristenJohanson) in the KYW studios in Philadelphia. Subscribe to "Gone Cold KYW" wherever you get your podcasts!

Jace Vines is a professional baseball player with the Wilmington Blue Rocks, a Kansas City Royals farm team. But his journey so far has been anything but ordinary, and included time as a public address announcer. Matt Leon (@MattLeonKYW) is back on Scroll Down, you can check out the article he wrote on Jace Vines here: http://cbsloc.al/2wxLRly

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia.

We heard a lot of feedback about last week's show. And a lot of people wanted to know more about the investigation into the murders in Solebury Township, Bucks County. This week, the role theories and rumors played in spreading the story on social media. And a one on one interview between KYW's Jim Melwert (@JMelwert) and Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub, the public face of the search for the lost boys.

 

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia.

In July of 2017, four young men suddenly disappeared in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The search for answers took just over a week. What happened to them shocked the nation. KYW's Jim Melwert (@JMelwert) and Tim Jimenez (@TimJRadio) join Scroll Down to tell the story of the lost boys of Bucks County.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia.

A murder mystery. A cold case. And a mom who watched her daughter die in her arms. KYW's Kristen Johanson (@KristenJohanson) returns to the podcast with the story of Amber Long.

For more on the investigation and to see the surveillance video: http://cbsloc.al/2uImZqG

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

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