Brian Hickey

Germantown High grad William Parks celebrates a stop for the Arizona Wildcats. (Photo courtesy of Arizona Athletics)

Former Germantown High football star under consideration for national player-of-the-year award

When William Parks attended Germantown High School, he was known as a ...

8 years ago

Melissa Killeen of Laurel Springs, NJ, will be honored next week for 'putting a public face and voice on recovery.' (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

South Jersey woman recovering from sex addiction honored for helping others

At the turn of the century, Melissa Killeen found herself buried in ...

8 years ago

Democratic mayoral candidate Jim Kenney is said to be weighing a proposal that would alter the bail process in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Community

Report: Kenney weighing bail reform to help with prison overcrowding

The Inquirer reported Tuesday night that Democratic mayoral candidate Jim Kenney is “weighing a bail proposal for Philadel ...

8 years ago

Mayor Michael Nutter signs an executive order that ended ICE detainers as long as the person being released has no first or second degree felonies. (Nathaniel Hamilton/For Newsworks)

Community

Bailey: Philadelphia will not be a ‘sanctuary city’ if I’m elected [UPDATE]

In the wake of a San Francisco homicide that sparked a heated immigration-policy debate, Republican mayoral candidate Melissa Murray Bail ...

8 years ago

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Lipscomb (right) is interviewed after a judge convicted Khusen Akhmedov of four counts of third-degree murder for killing Samara Banks and three of her four young sons. (Left images via NBC10; Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Driver who fatally struck mother, 3 young sons on Roosevelt Blvd. found guilty of third-degree murder

Throughout a week-long trial, everyone in Courtroom 707 of Philadelphia’s Criminal Justice Center agreed on one thing: Khusen Akhme ...

8 years ago

Memorials mark the area of Roosevelt Boulevard near 2nd Street where Samara Banks and three children were killed as they attempted to cross Roosevelt Blvd., a 12-lane roadway. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

Verdict in trial of driver who killed mother, three sons on Roosevelt Blvd. could come Monday

A week of testimony in the trial of a driver who fatally struck a 27-year-old woman and her three sons on Roosevelt Boulevard ended Frida ...

8 years ago

Brian Toomey stopped breathing for six seconds after falling off a horse in 2013. Sunday, he'll return to the sport in England. (Images from Toomey's Facebook page)

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Jockey who briefly died after 2013 fall returns to racing on Sunday

Sure, the expectation that ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia mayoral candidate Jim Kenney issued a statement regarding a controversial firing at a Merion school. (Margie Winters image via NBC10; NewsWorks file art)

Community

Kenney to Waldron Mercy Academy administrators: Reinstate Margie Winters

Jim Kenney, Philadelphia’s Democratic mayoral candidate, issued a brief statement on Thursday regarding the dismissal of Margie Win ...

8 years ago

A rainbow in the sky behind Wednesday night's vigil for homicide victim DeeAnna Riddle. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Community

At prayer vigil for N. Philly homicide victim, Bailey vows to address street violence

Holding white candles in small Styrofoam cups, they huddled under umbrellas at the corner of W. Ruscomb and N. Hutchinson streets Wednesd ...

8 years ago

Diane Barnes hopes her brother Robert will recover from injuries sustained during a brutal group assault in April. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Teens sentenced in brutal beating of homeless man in Olney

As Robert Barnes lay comatose in a Willow Grove extended-care facility, three teenagers involved in the brutal attack that landed him the ...

8 years ago

Angelo Lutz presides over Kitchen Consiglieri on Haddon Avenue in Collingswood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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Will Angelo Lutz’s past ever let him have a successful future?

Angelo Lutz, a boisterous South Philadelphia man who served seven years in federal prison ...

8 years ago

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Josetta Krause asks the candidates what can be done about people parking illegally on sidewalks in her neighborhood. (Screen-grab image via the Next Mayor partnership)

Community

Mayoral candidates address residents’ concerns about pollution, litter and illegal parking

In launching its “Street Level” series, The Next Mayor took questions about refinery pollution, “pervasive” litte ...

8 years ago

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