Slay figure's lawyer wants charge dropped - 11/13/2009

A defense attorney wants first-degree-murder charges dropped against the alleged mastermind of a June 27 drug robbery-double slaying...

 

D.A. to decide whether to seek death in Piazza case - 10/16/2009

The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will decide in the next few months whether to seek the death penalty against the alleged...

 

D.A. may seek death penalty in Piazza case - 10/15/2009

The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will decide in the next few months whether to seek the death penalty against the alleged...

 

Death penalty eyed by D.A. for 4 in N. Liberties slayings - 10/15/2009

The District Attorney's Office yesterday filed papers allowing it to seek the death penalty against the alleged mastermind and...

 

Letters: A modest proposal to help the city - 09/29/2009

COLUMNIST Stu Bykofsky writes of the dislike and resentment felt toward our city by the rest of the state.

 

Letters: Be careful of the 'r-word' - 09/28/2009

FORMER President Jimmy Carter seems to indicate that Rep. Joe Wilson was a racist when he made his now famous statement, "You...

 

Correction - 09/25/2009

_ A story in yesterday's Daily News incorrectly reported the charges that resulted from an investigation into straw purchases...

 

7 ordered to stand trial in Piazza slayings - 09/24/2009

With a gun pointed at her head, party planner Rian Thal pleaded: "Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! I'll give you everything...

 

Court hears details in fatal Piazza robbery - 09/24/2009

Hours before Rian Thal and Timothy Gilmore were gunned down in the Piazza in June, the alleged triggerman said, the man who masterminded...

 

Six held for trial in Piazza murder case - 09/23/2009

All defendants have been held for trial in the Piazza double murder case after a preliminary hearing during which prosecutors...

 

Drug figure facing hearing in homicides - 09/23/2009

EVERY AFTERNOON about 4, husky 6-foot-3 Will "Pooh" Hook Jr. would show up in a bulletproof vest, his henchmen surrounding...

 

Piazza victim orchestrated drug robbery, suspect says - 09/23/2009

The suspect who police maintain was the main gunman in the fatal shooting in June at the Piazza in Northern Liberties has told...

 

Cops: Nearly 300 calls made before Piazza slayings - 08/18/2009

They loved to talk. In fact, the four alleged co-conspirators and a "person of interest" talked nearly 300 times shortly...

 

Piazza stakeout may have lasted a day - 08/18/2009

The stakeout on Rian Thal's Northern Liberties apartment began almost 24 hours before she was killed, and involved dozens of phone...

 

Hearing for accused in Piazza killings postponed - 08/06/2009

A court hearing scheduled yesterday for Will Hook, whom police describe as the mastermind behind the fatal June shootings at the...

 

Letters to the Editor - 08/04/2009

Shameful vote on cell-phone use I was outraged to learn that even after hearing Jacy Good's horrific story of her accident caused...

 

Letters: Why publish just one victim's photograph? - 08/03/2009

I am fascinated by the blatant bias in reporting on Rian Thal's and Timothy Gilmore's robbery and death ("5th suspect arrested...

 

Task force hunted alleged lead gunman in killings - 08/01/2009

Since early July, a fugitive task force had been banging down doors looking for Donnell Murchison, accused of being the lead gunman...

 

7 in custody,more sought in slayings - 07/31/2009

Two alleged triggermen, including Donnell Murchison, the man accused of firing the fatal shots, were charged yesterday in the...

 

Police: All three Piazza shooters under arrest - 07/31/2009

A month after a well-known party planner and her companion were gunned down inside a posh Northern Liberties apartment building...

 

Two more arrests in Piazza slayings - 07/30/2009

All three of the suspected gunmen who police say were seen on surveillance video fatally shooting two people in the Piazza at...

 

Accused Piazza killer nabbed - 07/30/2009

A deputy U.S. marshal was in serious condition last night after being hit by a vehicle while tracking down the man accused of...

 

Alleged main gunman in Piazza killings arrested - 07/30/2009

The alleged main triggerman in the double homicide at the Piazza at Schmidts complex in Northern Liberties was arrested yesterday...

 

Authorities arrest another suspected gunman in Piazza killings - 07/29/2009

The alleged main triggerman in the double homicide at the Piazza at Schmidts complex in Northern Liberties was arrested this afternoon...

 

5th suspect arrested in Piazza killings - 07/29/2009

Police have arrested the fifth of what could be as many as a dozen suspects involved in the attempted drug robbery that turned...

 

Police nab 5th suspect in Piazza killings; several more expected - 07/28/2009

A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the June 27 double slaying at the Piazza at Schmidts retail and apartment...

 

Number charged in Piazza shooting may grow, police say - 07/23/2009

Investigators yesterday indicated that, with four people now in custody in last month's Piazza at Schmidts shootings, as many...

 

Briefly... CITY/REGION - 07/23/2009

Charges in Piazza slayings Edward Daniels, 32, of Fletcher Street near Sedgley Avenue, has been charged with two counts of murder...

 

Another suspect in Piazza case behind bars - 07/22/2009

Police have arrested one of the gunmen in the fatal double shooting last month during a botched drug robbery at the Piazza at...

 

Cops don't expect much help from murder suspect - 07/16/2009

Murder charges were filed yesterday morning against convicted drug dealer Will "Pooh" Hook, the alleged mastermind behind...

 

4 are sought in double slaying - 06/30/2009

KIDNAPPED AND robbed by drug dealers in 2004, party planner Rian Thal turned mum after her release, refusing to identify her captors...

 

Warrants disclosed for two in Piazza killings - 07/11/2009

Philadelphia police yesterday disclosed arrest warrants for a man they say masterminded the drug robbery of Rian Thal and Timothy...

 

Piazza murders unravel with more arrests - 07/16/2009

The suspected mastermind of the gruesome double homicide of party promoter Rian Thal and Timothy Gilmore has surrendered to police...

 

Calculated, brutal murder at Northern Liberties' hottest address - 07/02/2009

Last weekend, the stylish new Piazza at Schmidts complex in Northern Liberties became the scene of a shocking and grisly double...

 

Hook charged in Piazza at Schmidts killings - 07/16/2009

Police yesterday charged Will "Pooh" Hook with orchestrating the shootings of Rian Thal and Timothy Gilmore last month...

 

Piazza mastermind charged in double murder - 07/15/2009

Murder charges were filed at 7 a.m. today against convicted drug dealer Will Hook, the alleged mastermind in the shooting deaths...

 

Murder charges 'soon' for Piazza slay suspect - 07/15/2009

The alleged mastermind of the drug-related robbery-turned-double slaying at the Piazza at Schmidts on June 27 will "very...

 

Attorney says police to charge Piazza suspect with murder - 07/15/2009

The lawyer for the man police have accused of planning the drug robbery that left two people dead at the Piazza at Schmidts complex...

 

Suspect linked to Piazza killings turns self in - 07/14/2009

The man who police say masterminded a drug robbery that turned into a double homicide surrendered to police inside an affluent...

 

Piazza suspect surrenders: Accused of robbery, double homicide - 07/14/2009

A convicted drug dealer who allegedly set up the June 27 robbery-turned-double slaying outside a drug-and cash-filled apartment...

 

Piazza suspect surrenders - 07/13/2009

James Wilson, the man police say masterminded a drug robbery that turned into a double homicide in one of the city's most desirous...

 

Letters to the Editor - 07/14/2009

Sundays at museum no longer affordable Re: "Full-price Sundays back at Art Museum," Monday: It is very disturbing that...

 

Suspect in Piazza killings to surrender today - 07/13/2009

The man authorities say planned a drug-linked robbery that turned into a double homicide at a posh Northern Liberties apartment...

 

Grisly event puts development on the map - 07/12/2009

In working to recraft Philadelphia's most challenging neighborhoods, Bart Blatstein has learned this: Life can upstage your best...

 

Lawyer says client will surrender in double-homicide probe - 07/12/2009

The man authorities say planned a drug-linked robbery that turned into a double homicide at a posh Northern Liberties apartment...

 

Arrests and IDs in Piazza slayings - 07/11/2009

Police said yesterday that they've identified one of three shooters who killed popular party planner Rian Thal and her friend...

 

At the Piazza, patrons and tenants move on after 'isolated incident' - 07/09/2009

Last week, when many Philadelphians were preparing to enjoy the Independence Day holiday, Philadelphia police were hard at work...

 

A murder victim - and a mystery - 07/09/2009

At times, it could seem as if Rian Thal were two different people. She attended Hebrew school at Congregation Or Ami in Lafayette...

 

Briefly... CITY/REGION - 07/09/2009

Hearing in slaying postponed A preliminary hearing for Katoya Jones, accused of assisting in the June 27 murder of Rian Thal and...

 

Police: Piazza victims spoke to gunmen hours before their death - 07/09/2009

A few hours before Rian Thal and Timothy Gilmore died in a hail of bullets outside Thal's apartment last month, the building's...