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The number of active Black business owners fell by 68% from early March to July, according to the Census Bureau. Active white business owners fell by 44%.

Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, at least five teens were shot in Philadelphia, one fatally, in less than 12 hours, according to police.

U.S District Court Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan's order says the federal case won’t move forward pending the conclusion or delay of similar lawsuits in Pennsylvania state courts.

Nearly 2,000 state parolees have “absconded” from their supervision. The state is giving them a chance to get back into compliance without going back to prison.

“A six-alarm fire is the largest fire that we’ve had since early 2016, before I arrived here in Philadelphia. So this is a major blaze," Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said.

28-year-old Matthew George got tired coming home to a parade of plastic bags, styrofoam take-out food trays and overflowing cans.

The ongoing protests against racial injustice are fueling Philly artists to make music for this moment.

Two Bay Area clusters became the second- and third-largest wildfires in recent state history by size, according to state fire records.

In the year after Hurricane Maria, Pennsylvania was the second most common destination for Puerto Ricans relocating to the mainland.

Disputes are flaring both at colleges that announced weeks ago they would stick with virtual instruction and at those that only recently lost hope of reopening their campuses.

Democrats are poised to pass legislation to reverse recent changes in postal operations and send emergency funds to help the agency before the November election.

A recommendation to abandon Native American iconography will go before the school board Monday. Resistance has been less vocal than in other districts.

After drawing national headlines for the way Camden police have built trust with residents, recent incidents show residents standing up to officers.

In late July, researchers caught juvenile and adult fish just upstream of where the West Street Dam was removed by the City of Wilmington in 2019.

The last time two storms made landfall in the United States within 24 hours of each other was in 1933.