Philadelphia News

More than 30 individuals have been arrested as part of a street-level sweep by agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and the Coatesville Police Department.

Police said Wednesday they made 56 drug busts in a massive sweep throughout the city.

Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham announced a new appointment aimed at taking on with the rising number of animal cruelty cases in the city.Abraham said veteran prosecutor Barbara Paul has been made ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Gov. Ed Rendell misused his line-item veto authority three years ago in a dispute over abortion-related counseling and closing state police barracks.

Police confirmed a small, short-lived power outage at Philadelphia International Airport around five o'clock on Wednesday morning.

Jim Casey and Timothy Quinn received promotions to president and principal, respectively, of Lansdale Catholic High School on Monday by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Five young suspects, including an 11-year-old boy, were rounded up just half an hour after they allegedly broke into a Collingdale gun shop and stole 15 handguns and ammunition late Monday, police said.

A person of interest in a burglary and rape in Frankford turned himself in to police Tuesday afternoon.

Philadelphia police are investigating the burned body of a man found Tuesday morning in Pennypack Park.

Responding to a furor over their wrongful-death suit, lawyers for the estate of a disabled girl who died of starvation said they did not sue Philadelphia officials in an effort to enrich the parents.

Firefighters in Northeast Philadelphia made a grisly discovery at dawn this morning in a wooded area of Pennypack Park.

A Philadelphia man was charged in connection with attacking his 1-year-old son. Video Report Police said the boy was slashed across the neck Thursday.

A pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm's new facility on 40 acres at Wambold and Fretz roads will create more than 400 new jobs.

A Delaware River Port Authority committee has given the green light to a toll hike on major bridges between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Investigators say a construction worker's torch started a fire that left several hundred homeless at a suburban Philadelphia apartment complex.

The nine people charged in the starvation death of a Philadelphia teenager are due in court for a status hearing today.

Aug 16, 2008 6:50 pm US/Eastern A fourth attack in Frankford has Philadelphia police warning women about a possible serial rapist who previously struck three times in the same area.

The Philadelphia School District has decided to scrap a plan to cut back its free student TransPass program.School Reform Commission chairwoman Sandra Dungee Glenn says no changes will be made in the TransPass ...

The chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center was tapped by Gov.

State gambling regulators have approved a rescue for a financially troubled Pittsburgh casino project, but problems plaguing three other prospective casinos may be far more difficult to resolve.