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The FBI is asking the public to help investigators identify two bandits who are responsible for separate bank robberies in the city.
A Common Pleas Court judge has blocked a religious group from holding loud, racially charged demonstrations in front of the entrance to One Liberty Place at 16th and Chestnut Streets.
The members of the Gold Coast Buccaneers drill team did not cry. Instead, the elementary students stomped, clapped, and chanted to remember their slain drill master, gunned down three months ago in West Philadelphia.
Concerned that religious supporters in other parts of the country might help secrete Catherine and Herbert Schaible away, a Philadelphia judge has detained the couple, who allowed a second child to die because they believe medical care is a sin.
What are homeowners supposed to do when their handymen run out on them?
Two women have pleaded guilty in the assault of a Penn State freshman during a hazing ritual.
Police in western Pennsylvania say a 16-year-old girl was shot and killed in a Pittsburgh-area housing complex.
In 2010, a man was shot to death as he worked on his lawn. Most say it's stayed calm and that they seldom worry about crime.
Charles Ramsey said yesterday that he has ordered Internal Affairs to reopen the complaints filed against Jeffrey Walker.
5 Philadelphia men were found guilty for conspiring to break into the home of a local drug dealer and steal cocaine at gunpoint.
Almost immediately after opening, the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope became known as one of the nation's top summer theaters.
The state education commissioner has overruled the decision to fire Haddon Township schools' athletic director, who was captured on camera putting dog feces on his ex-wife's car last May.
"My Best Day Ever" was the theme of this year's national Doodle 4 Google contest, and when Sewell seventh grader Maria Iannone heard back in April that her artwork had been selected as her state's winner, that was a very good day indeed.
It sure is a funny world. Take the performances Jimmy Buffett did at a legendary Bryn Mawr coffeehouse in 1974 and '75.
As it stands, there's not much of a career ladder for teachers in New Jersey, if they want to keep teaching.
Three children were hospitalized with burns this morning after a fire swept through a rowhouse in Southwest Philadelphia, officials said.
Police in western Pennsylvania say a 16-year-old girl was shot and killed in a Pittsburgh-area housing complex.
The Chester Upland School District has released a preliminary 2013-14 budget with a $22.5 million shortfall that might require a 2.7 percent tax increase and layoffs.
The members of the Gold Coast Buccaneers drill team did not cry. Instead, the elementary students stomped, clapped, and chanted to remember their slain drill master, gunned down three months ago in West Philadelphia.
A Common Pleas Court judge has blocked a religious group from holding loud, racially charged demonstrations in front of the entrance to One Liberty Place at 16th and Chestnut Streets.
After a daylong standoff, police persuaded a Bucks County man who had barricaded himself in his house to come out - but not, they said, before he allegedly tried to disable a SWAT team robot with a stick.
A Chester County high school student brought a BB gun into a homeroom class and shot a classmate in the chest with a plastic pellet, police said Friday.
A Lansdale woman who allegedly was reading a text message while driving a car that struck two teenagers in Hatfield Township, killing one, has been charged with homicide by vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Three Maine men stand accused of some slimy fishing in the Absecon Creek near Atlantic City, according to authorities Friday in announcing a grand jury indictment for allegedly trapping 24,000 undersized eels that are a delicacy in Japan.
As the United States grows warmer and extreme weather more common, the federal government’s flood insurance maps are becoming increasingly important...
Philadelphia police are searching for a 12-year-old boy who they say has not been seen since Wednesday. Maurice Sorzano-Carter was last seen at his house on the 700 block of Brighton Street in Burholme. Maurice is black with a light complexion and short black hair. He stands 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. He has brown eyes and was last seen wearing tan pants and a navy blue shirt.
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