Philadelphia’s police commissioner resigned Tuesday amid allegations that members of his department engaged in sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination against two women serving in the ranks.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s top federal prosecutor in Philadelphia opened a press conference Thursday on the shooting that wounded six police officers by laying blame for the carnage at the feet of city’s Democratic district attorney.
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An hours-long standoff in which a gunman shot at police, wounding six of them, as he was barricaded inside a Philadelphia home ended with no fatalities early Thursday.
Read moreAt least one gunman opened fire on police Wednesday as they were serving a drug warrant in a Philadelphia neighborhood, wounding six officers and triggering a standoff that extended into the evening, including a potential hostage situation, authorities said.
Read moreRepresenting the president of a powerful Philadelphia electricians’ union, an attorney argued Wednesday that his client should not be tried on charges of bribery and embezzlement alongside prominent union official John “Doc” Dougherty.
Read moreThe Philadelphia Phillies’ beloved mascot, The Phanatic, is not up for grabs says the Major League Baseball team in an ownership dispute with the company that helped design him over copyright of the famous flightless bird.
Read moreOver a year after his incarceration sparked a national outcry for criminal-justice reform complete with its own hashtag, rapper Meek Mill returns to court Tuesday to push for a retrial.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hold an investigation into whether the Philadelphia bail system suffers from systemic failures.
Read moreHit with a $750,000 verdict in favor of a man whom officers tackled and Tasered at a sheriff’s sale, Philadelphia fought at the Third Circuit on Monday for a reversal.
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The largest oil refinery on the East Coast said Wednesday that it will close after a devastating fire last week that set off explosions and damaged equipment, and analysts said consumers could see gas prices rise as summer travel hits full swing.
Read moreFederal officials seized 33,000 pounds of cocaine from a ship at Philadelphia’s port in one of the largest drug busts in American history. They said the haul could have been worth more than $1 billion on the street.
Read moreA lawyer’s unflattering comments about a judge’s handling of rapper Meek Mill’s criminal case cannot be considered off the record and were therefore not taped or leaked illegally, another judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreJoined by families of the victims, nearly 250 survivors of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London brought a lawsuit Tuesday blaming faulty building materials made by U.S. for the blaze.
Read moreWeb servers in the Philadelphia courts remained down indefinitely Tuesday, with the internet outage entering its third week due to what court officials called a “virus intrusion.”
Read moreOn a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon, former Vice President Joe Biden stepped on-stage in a blue button-down shirt to open his first campaign rally in Philadelphia across the street from the Rocky steps.
Read morePhiladelphia officials can choose not to contract with a Catholic foster care agency that refuses to place children with same-sex couples, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreA lawyer for Philadelphia urged the Third Circuit on Friday to toss free-speech claims against a law meant to narrow the wage gap.
Read moreRejecting an appeal by the Trump administration, the Third Circuit ruled Friday that the government punish so-called sanctuary cities by withhold federal grant money.
Read moreDrawing a line in the sand with the mayor on how to handle Philadelphia’s opioid crisis, the city’s top prosecutor brought a federal complaint Wednesday to block a nonprofit from opening the nation’s first safe injection facility for drug users.
Read moreFlashing a smile in a packed Philadelphia federal courtroom, powerful electricians’ union leader John “Doc” Dougherty pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of embezzlement, bribery and theft of union funds.
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