Kevin Carroll, 50, left the Army in 1979 and became "a slave to heroin."
His addiction, he said, took him to low places. He's fished for meals from trash cans, slept on the streets, even curled up inside Dumpsters.
AS A NEWS video of police beating and kicking three shooting suspects is seen around the world, attorneys for the battered men are claiming that Philly cops concocted their story to cover up for a case of mistaken identity - an allegation police vehemently deny.
Amid an outpouring of condolences, a Chester County couple continues an anguished wait for an explanation for their daughter's death earlier this week at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where she was a freshman.
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Phil Sheridan: The Flyers rode a roller coaster onto the ice, but it couldn't carry them for 60 minutes. The Penguins are too talented and too physical, too determined and too driven, to be run over on their home ice.
Evangeline Janus, 91, co-owner of Konstantino's, a Greek restaurant on Head House Square, died of pneumonia April 23 at Meese Countryside Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., where she had lived since 1996. She was a longtime resident of West Philadelphia.
Philadelphia public schools are unsafe places where students who commit violent crimes are rarely punished and rehabilitated, says a new report by the district's safe-schools advocate.
A 40-year-old former youth minister plead guilty yesterday to charges of deviate sexual intercourse and corrupting the morals of a 15-year-old boy.


