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 A large tire fire in northeast Philadelphia sending dark smoke billowing into the air has closed the Betsy Ross Bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Braving frigid temperatures, about a hundred Wilmington residents took part in the 7th annual Martin Luther King Peace March calling for justice and racial harmony.

The deal allows the park to avoid the awkward possibility that it would be closed on the federal holiday honoring King.

Portions of the Barnegat Bay have frozen over the current Arctic blast, and that’s worrisome for officials.

The 24th annual Martin Luther King Day of Service at Girard College brought 4 to 5,000 volunteers to the historic school in North Philadelphia.

Last year, Quakertown students taunted and threw rocks at students from the majority-black Cheltenham district. As a response, the district held its first MLK Day of Service.

As I prepared to celebrate the Martin Luther King holiday, I listened to a sermon King delivered in a little Baptist church in Chicago in 1967.

Marty speaks with poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. Then we hear from a pediatrician about the Flint water crisis. Finally, we'll hear about the effects of childhood adversity.

A restaurant owned by musician and New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi is providing free meals to government workers and their families during the federal government shutdown.

Sponsored by the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Association for Nonviolence, the symbolic bell ringing usually attracts up to 500 people.

Martin Luther King, Jr. visited Girard College in wake of demonstrations to integrate the school founded in Philadelphia for white orphan boys.

Last January, the Philadelphia Water Department had more than 300 water main breaks. So far this year, it has responded to only about 40.

A crowd of students surrounds the Native American man, laughing and filming on cell phones.

Hundreds of furloughed federal workers are turning to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank to help make ends meet as the partial federal government shutdown drags on.

For the third year in a row Philadelphia’s streets were flooded with thousands of rally goers supporting a renewed women’s movement.