Philadelphia News

McGlinchey's Tavern is to Philadelphia what the Pink Flamingo is to Buffalo: an old, dank, unassuming bar where people gather to drink and talk, some on their way up, some on their way down.

The fire department here wants to split away from the village and create a fire district.

Just a month after another free-circulation Philadelphia daily called it quits, the mysterious disappearance of the Metro newspaper this week had some people thinking it had gone out of business as well.

A former state senator, Vincent J. Fumo, is seeking a new trial on corruption charges, claiming the jury was tainted.

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As the founding fathers had suggested, Americans have celebrated the Fourth of July with some very spectacular fireworks.

New York's senators are stuck in Albany this July 4 weekend in a partisan standoff that has lasted about as long as the founding fathers spent in Philadelphia in 1776, drafting a new government that derived its power from the governed.

Traffic on Interstate 684 slowed to a crawl after a lumber truck rolled over on Interstate 84 in Danbury, Conn., yesterday afternoon, backing up traffic in both directions as far as into Putnam County.

Jul. 1--It wouldn't take an expensive spiritual adviser to explain why life has taken a turn for the worse for Yu Jane Chen or Yi Feng Reid.

The rows of Philadelphia police cadets grew quiet as grainy video rolled across a screen before them: Shocking footage of a transit officer in Oakland, Calif., fatally shooting a suspect in the back as the man was being held down on a train platform.

Judging by the number of entries in the old inbox this week, it appears we weren't as ready for the DTV conversion as I opined two weeks ago.

"I love wearing lingerie, even when I was little and didn't have anything to wear lingerie for.

The reality TV parents of eight filed for a no-fault divorce on Monday outside Philadelphia the same day they announced the split on their wildly popular TLC show -- an episode that drew 10.6 million viewers.

Millions of passengers in cities across the U.S. ride old subway cars like the ones that crumpled in the deadly crash in the nation's capital.

A pickup driver and her passenger were lucky to escape injury when the truck took a tumble down an embankment, State Police say.

It's been 16 years in the making, but the Town of Philadelphia finally has a park to call its own.

Fifty-seven years later, Irving Adler still remembers the day he went from teacher to ex-teacher at Straubenmuller Textile High School on West 18th Street.

A nephew of the late New York Cardinal John O'Connor claims he was sexually abused by a priest.

If you're reading this, you probably weren't impacted by last week's official transition to digital TV signals, but there was concern that many people would be without their usual programming and raise a big fuss.

The Department of Buildings will share information about tower cranes with Chicago and Philadelphia in an effort to track equipment failures, manufacturers' recalls, accidents and industry trends, officials said on Thursday.