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Comcast Cofounder Who Helped Build Cable Giant Dead Weeks After $20M Gift
A Philadelphia cable television pioneer who helped build Comcast and recently joined his wife in giving $20 million to the city’s art museum has died, the company announced Friday, Nov. 6.
Julian A. Brodsky died Thursday, Nov. 5, at 93, according to Comcast’s announcement.
“Julian was an extraordinary leader, a brilliant financial mind, and one of the architects of cable television,” Comcast Chairman Brian L. Roberts said.
Brodsky and Daniel Aaron helped Ralph Roberts build the company following the 1963 purchase of American Cable Systems, a cable operation serving 1,200 subscribers in Tup…
Wife Recalls Final Desperate Phone Call With Husband Before Drowning In Florida Floodwaters
A Massachusetts native is mourning her husband after a deadly Florida flood trapped the father of four inside his vehicle as he pleaded for help during a final FaceTime call with his wife.
Stacy Petit Bennett, a Walpole native, lost her husband, 34-year-old Joshua Bennett, on Monday, Nov. 2, when fast-moving floodwaters submerged his vehicle in Palm Bay, Florida.
Joshua had gone out for coffee when rising water surrounded his vehicle
"He called me on FaceTime, and he was just crying like, 'I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do.' And he said he's in the middle of a ri…
Mugshot Shows Philly Foster Mom Charged With Girl's Heinous Murder
A 10-year-old Philadelphia girl who vanished from her foster home more than a week ago was found dead inside the trunk of a car in South Jersey, with bruising and scars suggesting a history of abuse, authorities announced Thursday, Nov. 5.
Malayshia Alford's foster mother, Caprice Williams, 36, has been charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, and several other related offenses, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced during a Thursday evening news conference.
The child's remains were discovered by Philadelphia police in Linwood, located in Atlantic County, following an invest…
CT Woman Killed In Home, Husband Found Dead Miles Away: Brother Speaks Out
A Connecticut woman was killed at her home earlier this week, and her husband's body was found several miles away with a self-inflicted gunshot wound soon after, officials said. Investigators are trying to piece together what happened, but the woman's family believes it has answers.
Amanda Dark, 41, and her husband, John Dark, 44, were found dead Tuesday morning, Nov. 3, after police responded to a reported suicide at a home on Roxbury Road in New Britain, city officials said Thursday.
Officers found Amanda's body in a bedroom at their home with a gunshot wound. John was later found with a …
Retired Nypd Cop Recounts 14-Minute Call Before Daughter's Murder-Suicide: Report
A retired NYPD officer from Dutchess County said he spent 14 minutes on the phone with his daughter as her boyfriend held a gun to her head, desperately pleading for her life before hearing the shot that killed her.
Rudy Cantarini, of Poughkeepsie, described the horrifying final moments of his daughter, Andrea Cantarini, 37, who was killed in an apparent murder-suicide inside her Bronx apartment on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, the New York Post reported.
Andrea, a Brooklyn native and nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital, was allegedly shot in the head by her boyfriend, Juan Cornelio D…
