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The city is already on pace to surpass last year’s total for carjackings.

The University of Pennsylvania law professor has come under scrutiny before for racist remarks made about Black students.

Sharon Hill police officers who shot into a crowd, killing Fanta Bility, 8, are on paid leave, while two teenagers are charged with first-degree murder.

Defense attorneys sought to paint a rosier picture of the state’s largest school district than the one Hite presented in his direct testimony.

State-appointed receiver Michael Doweary accuses officials, including the mayor, of hiking their pay in violation of Chester’s amended recovery plan.

Abortion rights activists say the state still needs to create equitable paths to abortion access, especially in predominately immigrant communities.

Camden continues a trend of low crime numbers, though the numbers for 2021 are flat when compared to the previous year.

Sports Reference LLC could have parlayed its millions of users into millions of dollars from sportsbooks. The company’s president explains why it didn’t.

Hicks, who is also publisher of Philadelphia Sunday Sun, reflected on that time and what’s ahead for the chapter with WHYY’s Cherri Gregg.

Biden called the head of Philadelphia’s fire union Monday night to discuss the devastating rowhouse fire and future funding for the city’s Fire Department.

Stewart Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S.

Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein has broken ground on a $100 million indoor water park on the Atlantic City Boardwalk

M. Elizabeth Magill will succeed Amy Gutmann, Penn’s longest-serving president. Magill will join Penn from UVA, where she serves as a provost.

More than a year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a Millsboro man has been charged with trespass and disorderly conduct inside it on Jan. 6, 2021.