Philadelphia

Samantha Sturkey glided through the room, her short arms thrusting the wheels of her chair into motion. Her dark, straight hair flipped f ...

With the holiday season in full gear, many of us are scrambling through malls and gift shops to find that perfect present for our loved o ...

Federal fraud charges filed last week against a Philadelphia Sheriff’s office employee and three others underscore the challenges t ...

Philadelphia Police say a man committed suicide near the Ivy Ridge train station in Roxborough this afternoon.  According to ...

A major convention will take place in Philadelphia in about a year and a half. The National Urban League, the largest civil rights ...

The cost of extra police to monitor Occupy Philadelphia protesters and eventually evict them has been tallied.   Budget Direc ...

Philadelphia City Council has approved a bill clearing the way to wrap a building with a large advertisement.   Councilman Fr ...

A vote could come this week in Philadelphia City Council that would require lead paint inspections each time an a new tenant moves into a ...

A usual meeting of the Land Use, Planning and Zoning (LUPZ) committee of the Chestnut Hill Community Association (CHCA) normally has a h ...

While some Ogontz residents continue to fight the city’s plan to bring supervised housing for two at-risk groups to the former Kemb ...

On Thursday night, over a dozen community members and businessmen gathered at Leverington Presbyterian Church for the December meeting of ...

Occupy Philadelphia’s tent city is no longer stationed next to City Hall, but members of the group say they’re angry, and the ...

There were no signs of police activity on the stretch of Ogontz Avenue nestled between the Ogontz Plaza and the Rock Church of God around ...

What does work mean to you?  The “How We Fish” project invites the communit ...

A man is in critical condition at Albert Einstein Medical Center after a bar shootout at Reuben Marc’s in East Mount Airy early Fri ...