Philadelphia News

The sound of chirping birds on a sunny June morning was lost as a car zipped along a dirt path in the back portion of Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Animal control officers have removed a 5-foot alligator and three piranhas from a South Philadelphia row house.

A retired pastor from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley accused of sexually propositioning a 15-year-old girl over the Internet has pleaded guilty.

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Four horses have been injured as three barns burned at an eastern Pennsylvania horse farm.

A private equity fund is the lead investor in a proposed new resort-style slot-machine casino in eastern Pennsylvania.

The President of the Valley Swim Club finally talked Friday, with his wife at his side, apologizing and explaining that the private club's best intentions were misunderstood in about the worst way.

Former state Sen. Vincent Fumo is getting a few breaks from the judge set to sentence him next week in his corruption case .

A Pennsylvania attorney was being released from prison Friday after serving the longest imprisonment on a civil contempt charge in U.S. history.

A National Football League player and 23-year-old Philadelphia native is hospitalized after being shot in Montgomery County.

A Philadelphia camp director says parents of some minority children asked not to return to a suburban private pool are contemplating legal action after some kids said they heard racial comments.

Philadelphia school officials voted yesterday to settle a 40-year-old school desegregation suit that could end court supervision over the city's public schools.

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Minimally invasive surgery for the excruciating back pain that can be caused by sciatica didn't work as well as the conventional procedure in a Dutch study.

Police say several people have become victims of assault on the Broad Street Line.

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This is outrageous : More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason .... The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club.

Nearly 40 years after the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission went to court to seek equal education for white and minority students in the city, the Philadelphia School District is poised to settle the landmark desegregation case and guarantee a number of reforms to benefit black and Hispanic children.

Health officials in suburban Philadelphia say a 19-year-old woman with swine flu has died.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 6:16 pm US/Eastern DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI, Associated Press Writer ROCHESTER, N.H. A New Hampshire gas station clerk called police just to let them know he had given two men permission to sleep in their SUV in his parking lot for the night.