Philadelphia

In October of 2010, Pat Imms, 55, feared for her life. She weighed nearly 400 pounds and was having trouble breathing. She knew sh ...

Here at NewsWorks, we know busy schedules sometimes get in the way of staying up to date on the latest neighborhood news in Northwest Phi ...

When 22-year-old Philadelphia University graduate Kaitlyn Doherty was 12-years-old, she announced to her parents that, all by herself, sh ...

This list covers Feb. 17 – Feb. 23, 2012. Feb. 17, 2012 4800 block Ridge Ave. – A house was set on fir ...

This list covers Feb. 10 – Feb. 16, 2012. Feb. 10, 2012 5000 block Portico St. – A man was murdered. P ...

Her silver hair in a tight bun while wearing pearls and a red dress, Violet Addison sits in a wheelchair in front of a shiny wooden piano ...

The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership seeks volunteers for a Tree Survey in West Oak Lane and Germantown. Join them to surve ...

The West Rockland Street Neighbors group will hold a “Germantown Cleanup Meeting” at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Francis of Assisi, ...

Several cases of random assaults in Philadelphia have been solved with the help of video cameras mounted on businesses.  The city is ...

Minutes after NewsWorks’s Germantown/West Oak Lane page posted a link to its story noting about City Councilwoman Cindy Bass’ ...

Unlike many students heading south for a Spring Break of gone-wild partying, 13 students from the Florida International University will t ...

The cycling community lost one of its big stars this week. Gerard “Jerry” Casale, one of the co-founders of the Philad ...

Daniel Cullen says he was first inspired by hair metal bands like Poison and White Snake to learn guitar 25 years ago. Then he discovered ...

On Wednesday night, members of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council voted to support a conceptual plan that seeks to raise visibility and ac ...

While delegates to the Constitutional Convention were in Philadelphia more tan 200 years ago, many stopped by the D. Landreth Seed Compan ...