Steve Tawa

Reporter/Anchor

[Steve Tawa @stevetawa]

.@USAttyMcSwain to crew members who face a hearing @USAO_EDPA Monday, after @CBP seized 35,000 pounds of cocaine on a cargo ship docked in Philly: "You thought you could breeze into our port, and then leave without getting caught. You thought you were clever. You were wrong."

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.⁦@CBP⁩, ⁦@ICEgov⁩, ⁦@USCG⁩, ⁦@USAO_EDPA⁩ show off just 1/4 of the 17.5 tons of cocaine seized from an international cargo ship. The raid, bust and seizure happened while the MSC Gayane was docked at Packer Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia

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After the raid and bust on a cargo ship at the Philadelphia Seaport, @ICEgov, @USCG, @ONDCP, @USAO_EDPA call it the “largest seizure in the 230-year history of CBP”: 17.5 tons

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Newsrooms are stuffed with people that @TUKleincollege Lew Klein mentored, like George Cummings, a '78 @TempleUniv grad, assistant GM @templetv: "students in his class got the sense of professionalism that he instilled," adding "there's a saying on campus, to 'live like Lew'."

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Remembering @TUKleincollege Lew Klein: Paul Gluck @templetv "Lew Klein's impact on me and a legion of others in media locally and nationally is all but incalculable." He often saw Klein "offering advice to students, "helping them find their confidence, and their career path."

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Lew Klein began teaching courses @TempleUniv in 1952. But his body of work in journalism and entertainment spread far beyond the campus. @TUKleincollege dean @dlboardman: Lew was executive producer of American Bandstand, and helped launch Channel 6's Action News format, in 1970.

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Iovance Biotherapeautics will be the latest addition @NavyYardPhila, where @PIDCphila says 14,000 people work at 170 companies, from ships and industrial coatings, to manufacturing and fashion, including @UrbanOutfitters, and @Tastykake. About 2500 are in the life sciences space

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Late-stage biotechnology company, Iovance Biotherapeautics, chooses the Philadelphia Navy Yard to locate its manufacturing facility, to produce cell therapy cancer treatments. @PIDCphila John Grady: "You're going to hear more and more about Philadelphia as 'Cellicon Valley.'"

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While the flames quickly raced up Grenfell Tower in London, the wrongful death lawsuit claims the spark began in Pa, according to @BobMongeluzzi. @SMBBlaw contends @Arconic (Pittsburgh) and @Celotex (Malvern) sold "dangerous, defective & flammable nature" building materials.

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.@SMBBlaw files wrongful death and product liability lawsuit against @arconic and @Celotex, two Pennsylvania based companies in the Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed 72 in 2017. They made cladding and insulation for the building.

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The jury foreman in suspended @CamdenCountyPD officer Nicholas Romantino’s trial wrote: “We are deadlocked. People are adamant on both sides. How long do we need to go before there is a mistrial?” Judge Robert Kugler told them stay at it, reexamine viewpoints, based on evidence.

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The jury tells a federal court judge in its 1st full day of deliberations it is deadlocked in the trial of a @CamdenCountyPD officer accused of using excessive force by repeatedly hitting a man in a videotaped arrest in 2018.

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.@NewJerseyOAG says an inmate (confidential informant), and his girlfriend (undercover police officer) set up a guard in a Cumberland County prison drug smuggling sting. David Cade is sentenced to three-years in prison for conspiring to smuggle opioid painkillers behind bars.

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Tom Kovacevich, one of the larger fruit merchants in the US, complains his Mexican grapes are bottlenecked at the Nogales, AZ border. Worse than tariffs, he says Trump's policy has created too much red tape, blaming a shortage of USDA inspectors and border patrol agents.

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Dan Vena of John Vena, Inc. sells Mexican avocados to trendy restaurants serving avocado on toast tonight, or grocers pushing guacamole in 3-days.: "We do think eventually, the American people will be paying those tariffs.'

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Merchants at Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market say @POTUS tariff talk may force Mexican growers to look elsewhere to sell their product. @IovineBrothers Jimmy Iovine: "Supply and demand will determine more price than tariffs, unless it continues on for a long time."

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.@CoatesvillePD who questioned two workers at a gas station in Chester County say a man pointed a gun at their heads, demanding money from the cash register, Then they say he said "fill it with the change, too," as he reached inside the counter to grab packs of cigarettes.

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The instincts of a retired cop kicked in when he saw an apparent robbery go down at a gas station in Coatesville. Everyone is safe, except for the alleged armed robber, who is hospitalized, after he was shot five-times. Lawrence Galloway faces armed robbery, and other charges.

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.@ACLU: "It's "an enormous victory for transgender students," adding Boyertown Area School District "chose to be inclusive." @AllianceDefends, which asked the Supreme Court to hear case, argued "the 3rd Circuit's decision "made a mess of bodily privacy and Title IX principles."

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.@USSupremeCourt declines to hear a challenge to the Boyertown Area School District's transgender policy. BASD will continue to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.