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A summer of protests called for changes to Philly police. Mayor Kenney did hear those calls and the selection of Danielle Outlaw as the police commissioner is a result.

The law is a vestige of the days when Delaware banned marriages between Black and white people. Sen. Townsend says it needs to be stricken.

PlanPhilly’s look back at 2019 focuses on changes in renter’s rights, preservation policy, and exclusionary planning.

In 2020, the town will have a new leader for the first time in eight years. Jeff Martin looks to improve the animal shelter and ensure safe drinking water.

Dean Pagan has become a poster child for toxic conditions in Philly schools. But can his family sue the district for damages?

New research finds opioid overdose deaths could increase by as much as 85% in counties where auto plants close.

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 70-year-old man who fell ill on a cruise ship off New Jersey on Saturday night.

As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own

New law aims to prevent employers from low-balling women and job applicants of color.

New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will spotlight efforts to combat climate change when high school teachers and students press the button that begins the countdown.

In the decade drawing to a close, the conversation about diversity and inclusion moved to the front burner of our popular culture as never before.

After spending nearly two years in the Berks Family Residential Center, Maria Martinez Nolasco was released. Then she was killed.

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission.

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry.

The annual Patriots Week events mark the battle that turned serial loser George Washington into a superstar of military strategy.