60 month sentence. Reporter the scaling rebuke from the judge i expected that as well. Reporter williams implosion was many months in the making back in february announced he will not seek a third term as District Attorney. My decision to accept gifts and failed to report them brought much embarras embarrass, shame and adverse publicity to me and unfortunately to the office for which i love. Reporter criminal charges followed bribery and other crimes allegaions that williams had a effect sold his influence as da to support a lavish lifestyle. He would ultimate and plead guilty in june as part of the deal that ended with trial prematurely. Shame, shame, shame. In documents filed just last week, williams lawyers asked for leniency given quote many of the the positive accomplishments williams achieved as District Attorney. In statement, williams apologized to his family, friends and supporters and said i have made mistakes, mistakes of character and judgment. But prosecutors said these we
Right now, a fallen hero. So senseless. Doesnt make sense. The man was doing his job protecting us. A community in mourning for a delaware state trooper killed in the line of duty. Ton night, the man who fired the deadly shots remains barricaded. Im petrified im petrified. Just like i said theres no respect for Police Officer any more. A tense neighborhood on lock down still. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Its been a long day stretching into a long night in delaware hours after a delaware state trooper was gunned down at a wawa. We just learned that trooper is 32yearold Stephen Ballard eight year veteran of the force. Thanks for joining us tonight im iain page. Im lucy noland. Man who police say killed Corporal Ballard took off and hold up in a home about 15 minutes away. Thats where he has been barricaded ever since. Now heres what we know at this point. This started right around lunch time 12 10 in the afternoon. Happened at the wawa on the 1600 block of pulaski highway in bear. State Pol
Husband, father, a hero something not lost on his supervisor who broke down while talking about his dedication. The acts of stephen yesterday exemplified the dedication that he brought to the citizens of delaware. So tough. Tonight the man police say shot and killed Corporal Ballard then barricaded himself inside a home in middletown is dead. He died in shootout with police this morning outside that home that he had been inside of for nearly 20 hours. Repeatedly firing shots at police they say keeping a neighborhood on lock down that entire time. Right now neighbors are back in their homes in that middletown area. Investigators say the gunman killed Corporal Stephen bala at the bear wawa then took off hold up inside his familys home in middletown just past 9 00 a. M. This morning he came out of the house and got into a shootout where he died. Fox 29 twines jeff cole is live at delaware state trooper barracks in glasgow this eveni evening. Jeff . Reporter lucy theyre trying to figure ou
Say sailors killed on board a destroyer off. Thousands of people celebrate at the citys 29 annual gay pride parade and festival. These are are youth, past, present, future together its so much love at one time i cannot believe. It. 25,000 people took part in yesterdays philly pride parade. It was a hot one out there. Yes t. Was. We saw brief storms yesterday katie and apparently more today. Today, looks like everyone will get hit by that. Not everyone did over the course of the weekend. Yeah, we had heavy rain. Not everyone was getting soaked by that and today its pretty much sure pet we get in on something. Timing is different depending where you are because its a line of storms that will move in primarily into evening and as early as after lunchtime far north and west suburbs. As we look at localized version of storm scan 3 off to the north a few spotty showers or thunderstorms popping. Generally youll start the day off on very steamy and dry not. Heres leading edge of this. Looks li
Rain. As we widen out there are downpours and storms popping now in cherry hill as well as parts of southern Mercer County ahead that of main line so a lot to go through as a cold front comes through to wipe out this intense heat and humidity. Talking about the heat and humidity and also the hard part of the storms is the intense downpours. You have more on that part of the story. Thats right. The reason why were getting those showers and storms is that because of all of the heat and humidity today. You look at the heat indies feeling like 94 in philadelphia, weve got a heat index of 94 as well in wilmington, close to 100 there in dover. Heat index up the 95 corridor in trenton feeling like 95 degrees. Thats why that severe thunderstorm watch has been posted until 8 oclock. The big concern with these thunderstorms as they move through gusty winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour and the possibility of hail. In combination with that some locations are underneath a Flash Flood Warning up until 6