Crime

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office is combating violence while also warning of harsh penalties for people who settle disputes with guns.

They include one man who told a family member he wanted to attend an event where he could shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on live television.

Pennsylvania’s highway agency wants to prevent a major heavy equipment contractor from doing state work for up to three years because it pleaded no contest to theft.

Jack Stollsteimer said there is a "high probability" that responsive gunfire from police officers is what killed an 8-year-old girl after a Friday night football game.

Philly is bringing in officers from days off, and is adding special patrols and undercover officers in the crowd at the Made in America concert.

A football game between Academy Park and Pennsbury High School had just ended when shots rang out.

New DNA technology could help crack a cold case in Philadelphia and police are seeking help from the public.

The incident started in Delaware County when officers attempted to pull over the suspect riding a motorcycle.

The shooting happened on the 2300 block of North Reese Street in North Philadelphia.

The confidential files they stole in 1971 revealed widespread surveillance of the American public and the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO operation.

Sexual assault survivors say interactions with law enforcement can be so intense, and so unsympathetic, that they add a secondary trauma on top of the rape.

The teen was playing with her brother and two friends when she was shot.

Acting N.J. Attorney General Andrew Bruck says state police, with the FBI and ATF, seized two assault rifles and 18 handguns. Among them were eight “ghost guns.”

Since just before midnight Saturday police say 7 people have been shot in separate shootings, leaving four dead.

Zedekiah Holmes, 21, was charged with the murders of 25-year-old Asia Hester and 30-year-old Kevin Elliott.