Around 10 Tuesday morning, Debra Dippold stopped by her doctor's office in Pennsauken to pick up a prescription. On an impulse, she brought flowers.
Gov. Corbett signed legislation Tuesday that will let crime victims and their families speak directly to members of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole before a decision is made on whether to release a prisoner.
Communities in the region that now are eligible to install red-light cameras at troubling intersections are proceeding with caution.
Gov. Corbett signed a bill in July permitting municipalities with more than 20,000 residents and a state-accredited police agency to install the controversial cameras.
Accounts greatly differ about what happened just prior to a six-second video that shows two SEPTA police officers punching and stepping on an unarmed...
Gov. Corbett's administration - along with city and state officials - is working to assemble a funding package that could pump as much as $100 million more into the coffers of the Philadelphia School District, according to sources with knowledge of the high-level talks.
The smiling face on the T-shirts is Anjeanette Maldonado, frozen in time at 17, with adulthood and her dream of being a commercial artist on the horizon.
A former Philadelphia police officer pleaded guilty Monday in Bucks County Court to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Bensalem last year and could face up to 36 months in prison.
Violence remains a major problem in the Philadelphia public schools, and it's bound to get worse with the layoff of more than 1,200 aides who assist in the cafeterias, playgrounds, and other areas, says the union representing the workers.
An Upper Darby woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend had allegedly drugged and raped her while she was unconscious after she found a video he made of the act on her iPhone, police said.
World War II combat veteran Ray White wept on the witness stand Tuesday as he testified that he lost his South Philadelphia house and vintage automobiles in a deception scheme.
HARRISBURG - Wine, beer, and liquor, all under one roof.
Buying alcoholic beverages in Pennsylvania should be that simple, according to a key Republican legislator who made public Tuesday his long-awaited version of a plan to privatize the sale of wine and spirits in the state.
Philanthropic giving is inching its way back up, but the United States has not returned to its prerecession levels of generosity.
With the 75-year-old record for June rainfall not that far out of reach, the region got another soaking Tuesday afternoon.
Roseline Conteh died doing what she loved: being a mother to everyone.
Conteh, 52, was shopping at the Salvation Army thrift shop at 22d and Market Streets for clothes to send home back to Sierra Leone for friends and family who couldn't afford them. The mother of nine died June 5 when the building collapsed.
Philadelphia police leaders will meet July 10 with the U.S. Department of Justice to discuss the first stage of a federal review of the department’s lethal force policies, Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey announced today.
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