Philadelphia News

Western Pennsylvania gun owners have aimed their sights at a Philadelphia gun control advocacy group - crashing its events, issuing challenges and even showing up at its office with a video camera rolling.

She grew up in this area, went to college here and now Wendy Voet is the new executive director of WOMEN'S WAY - and she brings a global perspective.

The largest bar crawl ever officially took place last year in Kansas, drawing 4,885 people.

Monongahela Area Historical Society President Susan Bowers is shown with a photo of her Italian immigrant grandparents, Francesco and Marguerite Corbelli.

Right now, she's holed up in a prison cell at the Federal Detention Center at 7th and Arch streets in Center City, across from the federal courthouse, where she has a date before a magistrate judge on Monday.

Gionna Hawkins is 14, a smart young lady with serious goals and a detailed plan for pulling them off - class president, then internships, college and law school.

A trove of government documents reveals widespread domestic surveillance of Americans.

Personnel with the United States Coast Guard are currently searching the Delaware River for a man who was reportedly ejected from his personal watercraft Friday afternoon.

The Martinsburg Police Department, working in conjunction with the Philadelphia, Pa., Police Department and the US Marshal's Fugitive Task Force, was notified Thursday of the arrest of two suspects in connection with the Dec. 16, 2013, shooting death of Spencer Vancamp outside his residence on Pendleton Drive in the city.

Pop singer Miley Cyrus is postponing her concert at the Wells Fargo Center on Monday, April 21 to Saturday, August 2, as she remains hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics, Comcast-Spectacor announced Friday night.

A vigil was held Friday night for a fruit vendor found stabbed to death outside his home one year ago today and a $25,000 reward is being offered in the case.

One man was killed and a second critically wounded in a shooting incident Thursday that involved the victims' being duct-taped over their eyes and around their wrists, Philadelphia police said.

How sweet is this? A local bakery is serving up one of America's best cupcakes, according to The Daily Meal .

Investigators said Staten shot 23-year-old DeJuan Thompson of Philadelphia early Saturday at a party at the College Park Commons on North Earl Street.

Vowing to "become the man my mother raised me to be," a Frankford man who admitted raping four women between 2007 and 2012 was sentenced Thursday to 35 to 100 years in prison by a Philadelphia judge.

PHILADELPHIA Just a few years ago, the region's refineries were on life support, hurt by high prices of oil imported from foreign countries.

A Philadelphia mother wanted by police in the accidental shooting death of her 11-year-old daughter by a two-year-old surrendered to police Thursday.

Three New Jersey teens frantically used their cellphones to call for help from a sinking van after their troubled mother drove them into a river, their father said Thursday.

Community residents from West Philadelphia at the Healthy in Philadelphia event were filled with questions to discuss with Dean Meleis, Terry Lipman, Nurse Practitioner, Loretta Diemay, Maureen George, and several other presenters on April 3rd at the LIFE Center at 4508 Chestnut Street.

Members of the Korean community in Philadelphia are expressing shock over the sinking of a South Korean ferry with hundreds of high school students on board.