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It's been about six months since Philadelphia first tried to break up encampments of homeless drug users. So what happens to the people who are forced to leave?

A police spokesman and a representative of the city of Philadelphia both declined to comment on the pending litigation.

We have to stop killing each other. 

Whose job is it clean up public roads in Philadelphia?

A gunman opened fire Monday at a Chicago hospital, killing a police officer and two hospital employees after a domestic dispute exploded ...

An ongoing effort to battle blight in Wilmington will transform a long vacant lot into a community garden and green space. Right n ...

The New Jersey region will be so cold on Thanksgiving that records could be broken, forecasters say.

New Jersey's highest-ranking cleric says the Catholic church will release the names early next year of priests credibly accused of abusing children.

For $2 per day — and another $1 an hour when battling fires — qualified inmates can volunteer to help authorities combat fires.

A member of the Philadelphia-based American Friends Service Committee recounts her experiences doing relief work with the caravan of migrants passing through Mexico.

These word-of-mouth suggestions for safe passage through a sometimes-hostile America were, "sort of a 20th Century version of the Underground Railroad.

This year, as the runners approached the fifth mile of the race, members of the Mother Bethel A.M.E. choir sang uptempo hymns from the steps of the church.

U.S. Coast Guard officials say a commercial ferry helped rescue four people from a sinking boat off the New Jersey coast.