Philadelphia

It’s not a common experience for more than 30 children to proficiently use American Sign Language when none is deaf or hard of hear ...

Joan Renshaw of Acorn Street in Roxborough, was just steps away from what could have been a far more tragic fallout during last nightR ...

“What does it take to create panic?” For City Controller of Philadelphia, Alan Butkovitz ...

More than 1,000 miles from home, a group of 12 teens and chaperones arrived this week at the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown (FPC ...

The 5th Police District has started its annual fundraising drive for the 2012 Hero Scholarship Fund. The fund helps to pay for the colleg ...

The Philadelphia Police are seeking assistance in identifying four suspects connected to the robbery of a grocery store in East Germantow ...

Firefighters in Philadelphia are not getting what they wanted.  The city plans to appeal an arbitrator’s contract decision. &n ...

A larger than expected crowd turned out for a Voter ID workshop in Northwest Philadelphia Thursday night. This comes during a week ...

A recent scare in a Kroc Center pool has officials weighing a policy change that would prohibit lifeguards from having their cell phones ...

Electronic giant Best Buy posted a $1.7 billion loss in the first fiscal quarter of 2012. This April, it announced it would close 50 stor ...

Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Here are our top picks: Final Weekend of “Escaped Infrastructure” ...

Sparks flew and water poured through a ceiling light in Roxborough’s Kendrick Recreation Center on a recent summer night. The overn ...

This is what the front of tonight’s powerful thunderstorms looked like in Mt. Airy earlier this evening. This was captured by Bas S ...

You’ve snapped a some photos of the darkening skies and related forces of nature yesterday? Share them with NewsWorks. If yo ...

After a four-hour power outage due to a blown transformer around 11 p.m. Tuesday, residents of the Copley Manor Apartments were able to s ...