Video: The rain before the hurricane

One Jewish community in Philadelphia tries to keep its young people rooted in their identity with a modern spin on a bar/bat mitzvah tradition.

A teenager was shot and critically wounded by a police officer following a struggle in north Philadelphia, police said.

Taking over the Mann Center in Fairmount Park for the second year in a row, tickets for the Roots Picnic — Philly’s biggest hip-hop party — go on sale Friday at noon.