We open Friday with Sean Farash joining Nick Kayal, Dawn Stensland, Phil Almquist, and Jimmy Kelly, then race from a truly bizarre Fort Wayne arson case into flash flooding across South Jersey, a 30-year sentence in the killing of a Cherry Hill veterinarian, and a Wilmington school-bus crash that sends six people to the hospital. We also flag an IRS deadline for COVID-era refund claims, preview the Ben Franklin Bridge’s centennial celebration, and cover the Phillies, MLB All-Star Week, LeBron James chatter, and Anaheim’s decision to match Philadelphia’s offer sheet for Leo Carlsson.
The Big Take centers on a watchdog report alleging $225 million in school fraud through ghost students, fake invoices, inflated enrollment, bid rigging, and kickbacks. We examine Linda McMahon’s response, Arkansas gaining more control over federal education dollars, a suit seeking records on promised student-loan discharges, Philadelphia teacher assignments, Tennessee scholarships, and Pennsylvania House Bill 2632. The political conversation then moves to the Tyler Robinson hearing, Lance Twiggs’ account of Robinson’s conduct after Charlie Kirk’s killing, Graham Platner’s exit from Maine’s Senate race, and a wave of Democratic incumbents losing primaries.
Pete Ciarrocchi joins us for one-dollar Crabfries and the police-family scholarship fundraiser before the crew moves through Philadelphia’s plastic-bag rules, a Northeast Philadelphia house filled with animals, a Murfreesboro officer helping a nonverbal child through toy dinosaurs, and the arrival of a 7-foot-3 Texas police officer. Fight Club crowns its weekly winner, federal agents report missing children recovered during a World Cup operation, and Dawn’s Big Three covers South Jersey flooding, the deportation of Tou Lue Vang, and a wild Ohio chase across a golf course. Dawn closes the show with Cyclospora warnings and Robinhood’s Steve Quirk explaining Trump Accounts for children.
